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Mr Emanuel has reportedly told friends that his role as White House chief of
staff was “only an eighteen month job” because of its intensity. Regarded as
the most demanding after president, it involves controlling the president’s
agenda, enforcing White House message discipline as well as liaising with
Congress.

His departure would be regarded as another sign of how Mr Obama’s
presidency has been far more troubled than expected. Mr Emanuel has
privately expressed a readiness to run for mayor of Chicago, which is also his
home town though he was never part of the Obama set and did not endorse
the then senator in the Democratic primary in 2008. That would however
depend on Mayor Richard Daley stepping down when he is up for re-election in
2011.

The chief obstacle to taking the White House job originally was doubts about
moving his three children from Chicago. According to another former Clinton
official, he has let friends know that he is “very sensitive to the idea that he is
not a good father for having done this”.

One of Washington’s more colourful characters, Mr Emanuel is the son of
Jewish immigrants and was an accomplished ballet dancer at school. He served
as a civilian volunteer with the Israeli Defence Force in the 1991 Gulf War.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Friday but on
Monday, Mr Emanuel issued a statement: “This is BS. And if you need it for
translation, it’s baseless.”
Curled  from The London Telegraph
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An official from the Bill Clinton era said that “no one will be surprised” if Mr
Emanuel left after the midterm elections in November, when the Democratic
party will battle to save its majorities in the house of representatives and the
senate. It is well known in Washington that arguments have developed
between pragmatic Mr Emanuel, a veteran in Congress where he was known
for driving through compromises, and the idealistic inner circle who followed
Mr Obama to the White House.

His abrasive style has rubbed some people the wrong way, while there has
been frustration among Mr Obama’s closest advisers that he failed to deliver a
smooth ride for the president’s legislative programme that his background
promised. “It might not be his fault, but the perception is there,” said the
consultant, who asked not to be named. “Every vote has been tough, from
health care to energy to financial reform.

“Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did
for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm’s job.” There were sharp
differences over health care reform, with Mr Emanuel arguing that public
hostility about cost should have forced them into producing a scaled down
package. Mr Obama and advisers including David Axelrod, the chief strategist,
and Valerie Jarrett, a businesswoman and mentor from Chicago, decided to
push through with grander legislation anyway.
Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good
working relationship with Mr Obama
but they are understood to have
reached an understanding that
differences over style mean he will
serve only half the full four-year term.

Friends say he is also worried about
burnout and losing touch with his
young family due to the pressure of
one of most high profile jobs in US
politics. “I would bet he will go after
the midterms,” said a leading
Democratic consultant in
Washington. “Nobody thinks it’s
working but they can’t get rid of him –
that would look awful. He needs the
right sort of job to go to but the
consensus is he’ll go.
Rahm Emanuel May Resign