Chris Whipple
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207 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 17 Dec
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Hey, Don.
Great to see you.
yeah sure so she knew from the get-go exactly what the nature of the beast was um it's it's extraordinary i mean i every once in a while in a reporter's career lightning strikes and and this was one of those cases i uh
I first spoke to her by phone in January, 10 days before she took office as White House Chief of Staff.
And she was driving from Mar-a-Lago to her home in Ponte Vedra.
It's a long drive.
We had a long talk.
I found her really interesting and smart and funny.
Everything was on the record.
That never happens with senior White House officials, right?
um and we started talking about i was working on a book on a history of the presidential campaign managers from 68 to the present kind of like the book i wrote on the white house chiefs a history and so when we began talking um that was she was certainly aware of that a few months in
She said to me, Chris, tell me again what this is about?
Who this is for?
And I said, well, look, Susie, I write for Vanity Fair.
I write for the New York Times op-ed page.
Let's see what we can do.
And I came back to her later and said,
Guess what?
Vanity Fair wants to do a big story on the second Trump term.
She was all in immediately and said, congratulations.
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