Briefly: New Chief of Staff a Deadhead

Pete Rouse, the gentleman President Obama tapped this afternoon as his interim Chief of Staff upon the departure of Rahm Emanuel is a Deadhead. He’s the guy who helped get The Dead back together to play a benefit for the then candidate’s campaign according to a New York Times profile…

in 2008, he persuaded the surviving members of the Grateful Dead to reunite and campaign for Mr. Obama.

We truly are everywhere, folks, even in the White House.