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William Daley at Top of Obama List for White House Chief of Staff

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The Obama White House is considering William Daley as the new chief of staff, but no final decisions have been made, and interim chief of staff Peter Rouse still has not finalized whether he wants to stay.
Daley, who lives in Chicago, is Midwest chairman for New York-based J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. and is the bank's head of corporate responsibility.
He is also the brother of Mayor Richard M. Daley and a close friend and mentor to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. After Mayor Daley announced he was not seeking another term, Emanuel left the Obama White House in October to return to Chicago to run for mayor.
William Daley was also chairman of former Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and would come on board as the Obama White House is ramping up for the 2012 re-election campaign.
Bloomberg News first reported on Monday that Daley was under consideration for the chief of staff or other top post. Politics Daily has learned that Daley is at the top of the list for chief of staff, but nothing has been offered yet in part because the Rouse piece -- whether or not he wants to stay -- has not been decided.
William Daley would bring vast political and government experience to the job and give President Obama a comfort factor an outsider could not: Daley is very close to Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, who also was a top adviser to Mayor Daley.

Daley would also bolster the Obama White House outreach to the business community, an area that needs work as Obama starts a potentially very rough patch with a GOP-controlled House taking over on Wednesday and a large potential group of 2010 GOP presidential hopefuls

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