Senior Obama Aides to Depart in Coming Weeks

Source: New York Times

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISFEB. 4, 2015

WASHINGTON — Two senior aides to President Obama plan to leave the White House in the coming weeks, officials said Wednesday, adding to an exodus of talent and institutional memory from the West Wing as Mr. Obama looks toward the final two years of his term.

Dan Pfeiffer, one of the last members of Mr. Obama’s intimate circle of aides who had been with him since his first White House run, plans to depart by early next month. Jennifer Palmieri, his communications director, will leave sometime in the spring to join the nascent presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The exits will follow that of a top adviser, John D. Podesta, the presidential counselor who has already announced he will step aside and is widely expected to advise Mrs. Clinton should she seek the presidency. His final day will be Feb. 13.

Taken together, the resignations signify a transition for Mr. Obama, as public attention increasingly turns to the 2016 race to replace him and as he begins the last chapter of his presidency without some of his most trusted lieutenants.



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