The New York Times
November 17, 2008
The Caucus
Those Lazy, Hazy Days of Presidential Transition
By JOHN HARWOOD
As President-elect Barack Obama rushes from secret job interviews with onetime rivals in the Democratic primary season to briefings on the financial crisis, to discussions of saving the American auto industry, the postelection period may feel frenetic.
But soon he and his transition team may look back on this phase as luxuriantly languid, a fleeting chance for “deliberate haste,” as Mr. Obama has characterized the pace of his cabinet selection process. Later it will be all haste.
This fall his running mate, Joseph R. Biden Jr., warned that the incoming president would be tested within six months by an international crisis. But history shows the rush of trouble does not wait for months, or sometimes even hours.
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