LATE IN BARACK OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY, the speechwriters for the secretary of defense—of which I was one—still occupied an expansive office in the Pentagon that Donald Rumsfeld had used for his scribes more than a decade before. With comfortable couches, widescreen televisions, and enough room for a general and their staff, we hated to give it up.
When a few midlevel bureaucrats showed up one day unannounced, like the Bobs from Office Space, poking around and taking measurements, we knew our luck had run out. The Pentagon press corps needed more room closer to “the bullpen” where uniformed press officers fielded questions. And so, the Bobs explained, the speechwriters were moving to smaller quarters. The message was clear: The most important…
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