President Obama will name deputy national security adviser Denis McDonough, a longtime trusted aide, as his new White House chief of staff Friday, officials said.
McDonough, 43, has spent the past two years as the No. 2 official in the National Security Council, helping guide some of the administration’s most high-profile decisions, including the military drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the response to earthquakes in Haiti and Japan and the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
Obama considers McDonough one of his “closest and most trusted advisers for nearly a decade,” a White House official said.
The president also intends to announce a slew of other moves including naming Rob Nabors, currently the White House director of legislative affairs, to deputy chief of staff for policy. Tony Blinken, a foreign policy adviser to Vice President Biden, will replace McDonough at the NSC.
Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, will be promoted to senior adviser to the president, as Obama’s longtime adviser, David Plouffe, prepares to leave the administration. Pfeiffer’s deputy, Jennifer Palmieri, will replace him as communications director.
Obama will make the personnel announcements at 12:10 p.m. in the East Room. McDonough will be Obama’s fourth chief of staff, succeeding Jack Lew, who has been nominated to head the Treasury Department. Lew followed Rahm Emanuel and William Daley.
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