Bill Clinton: “One of the things that we've looked at--keep in mind one of my first spending cuts was committing by the end of the next…”

“One of the things that we've looked at--keep in mind one of my first spending cuts was committing by the end of the next fiscal year to have a White House staff that was 25 percent smaller than my predecessor's. But when I got to looking at it, every other Chief of Staff has always had basically three major; the recent ones, at least have had three major aides, and Mack's been functioning with one. So I'm trying to figure out how to give him at least one more. He still wouldn't have as many--if he had two instead of three, he wouldn't have as many as most of his predecessors have. But we think that there needs to be a little tighter coordination here to make sure that we've got our priorities straight and that those priorities are communicated all the way down to the staff, and a little better focus. One of the things that you risk when you try to get a lot of things going in a hurry--and we tried to get a lot of things going in a hurry because 4 years passes in a hurry--is that you wind up having people work very, very hard, but maybe getting a little out of focus. And I think we can tighten the focus a little, and I think that's what we ought to do. The Economy”