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    Can an Office Change a Country? The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: A Year in Review

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    Places the White House OFBCI in the context of the institutional presidency and identifies the challenges it presented. Examines campaign creation, transition planning, and future prospects for the OFBCI

    Smoothing the Peaceful Transition of Democratic Power, Report 2017–30: The Office of the First Lady

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    Since 2001, the White House Transition Project has provided reports to incoming White House staff members on topics critical to a successful transfer of power. Written by presidential scholars from across the country, the series aims to enhance the staff’s understanding of day-to-day operations in the West and East wings. Nearly every former White House chief of staff, press secretary, director of communications, and senior advisor since the Nixon administration has been interviewed for the project to determine how each office operates — what works, what doesn't and what did they wish they had known before arriving at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.? Other reports cover topics as diverse as the most effective use of the first 100 days and the dynamics of presidential travel. The 2017 series is a partnership between the Moody Foundation, the White House Transition Project and the Baker Institute. It is led by Martha Joynt Kumar, an emeritus professor at Towson University and author of several books on the presidency, and Terry Sullivan, author and member of the political science faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was supported by a grant from the Moody Foundation. The White House Transition Project's report on the role and responsibilities of the first lady is available here. The complete series may be downloaded on the WHTP website (http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/)
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