President Obama’s personal secretary, Katie Johnson, is one of many staff who support him in his role.
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In 1937, a committee headed by the academic Louis Brownlow reported that ‘the president needs help’. Administrative support was needed to coordinate a massive expansion of federal activity following the start of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The findings of the Brownlow report led to the creation of the executive office of the president (EXOP) in 1939, designed to serve and support the president in his work.
One way to understand the internal structure of the EXOP is to see it as a group of offices or agencies.
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