The ritual of seeing the same people every Sunday am doing an ad for a drug company—Sonata was for brunch, and then I have dinner most Sundays my lifesaver, because it only really lasts four hours with my family who lives here—l find that helps. and it's out Ofyour system, SO it's perfect for plane We don't talk about work, we talk about what rides, for nights when you're not getting more than normal people talk about, and that allows me to four hours of sleep. catch my breath. Whenever we are all in town, that RHODES: Onthe 2009 trip to Moscow, lwas a brunch and dinner are sacro S anct. speechwriter at that time. Back then, when the [ ル E: I did every international trip twice during President would leave and go to all ofhis meetings, the first 2 % years ofthe Administration. lt's a 10t of I would stay at the hotel and work in the staff's miles. People often ask me where my favorite place workspace. lt was the middle ofthe day. I was was that I traveled. lt's so difflcult for me, because working in the staffoffce, and I went back to my my experiences are not real-life experiences. My room t0 get something, and the cleaning lady was experience iS you go tO Moscow and inside there and there were three guys in suits going the KremIin. l've been inside 10 Downing and through all my stuffor doing things ⅲ the room. As Buckingham Palace. soon as I walked in, they put everything down and PSAKI: The President travels with walked out ofthe room without saying anything. three planes, SO it is very dffcult tO ル E: ln one country, I got to my hotel room, I coordinate and for people tO stay in was just SO tired, just ready tO pass out. I throw my close touch and really for everybody to BIackBerry down on the bedside table and it starts have all ofthe information they need. making the noise that it makes when you put it [ 化い E: What I always tell my advance next to an open mike. I was like, "AII right, I guess staffers is that a lot oftimes you are there's that!" You never know what you're going to the closest someone will ever get to find. You just get used to it. the President. Your behavior and what you d0 could wind up on the front page 0fthe New York Times. lt reflects K N 0 W ー N G 打 on him and on this Administration, at every point. Whether you're at a bar in A E N 0 S Washington, D. C ” or overseas. You also still need to have fun and live your life, but I think it's important to remember that you can't ever turn that o 圧 Ⅵ ETOR: There'II be times you feel completely over- ー ETOR: lt's not just that people whelmed, miserable and under siege. The hours can might recognize you. lt's that D ℃ . is be brutal and the stakes are high. But as frustrated filled with people who will actively as you might feel in the moment, knowthat you're try to hurt you, so be mindful of going t0 miss thej0b when you're gone. You get to talking about work ⅲ public. You will be a part ofsomething that's bigger than yourself. inevitably be overheard. The people you workwithwill be lifelong friends. WINTER: The reception that the First Family lt's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Savor it. received virtually anywhere they went in the world JARRETT: I think one ofthe pieces ofadvice that was always so overwhelmingly positive. some I received was that the days last forever, but the places they literally would just line the streets, weeks, months and years flyby. And that is very, in a way that you're thinking, Don't these people very true. Every single day I think, Goodness, that have t0 go back to work? There was this feeling at day lasted forever. And I cannot believe l've been some points that the First Lady was like a global here almost two weeks shy ofeight years. superstar. But you know what? A lot ofthese E MAN リ EL. lfyou ever drive into the gates ofthe trips, we had Malia and Sasha and Grandma with White House and you still don't have a tingle ⅲ us. We'd go back to the hotel and we'd be asking, your spine Of hOW special this is, it's time tO leave. "What do the kids want for dinner? ” Even in the darkest moments and the toughest PFEIFFER: The one thing l've learned in my post— slog-throughs, it's special. I mean, it's going to be White House life is that your body and mind and tough, there's no doubt and advice on that, but if emotions will adjust to that lifestyle. You have a you don't still have a tingle that this is special, then new normal. The level Of stress and exhaustion it 's time tO go. that I lived with for six years ⅲ the white House. い E: I used tO walk up to the White House I'II look back on it and think it's insane. gate sometimes and expect them not to let me in. LI い E: You need something to help you sleep. Because it's just that amazing working there. The Ambien is not the way tO go. lt lasts eight hours. thing is that one day they won't let you ⅲ . That You will not get eight hours. Sonata—I feel like I happens tO everyone. 36 TIME January 23 , 2017 'My rule as chief of staff was, the door is always open. I might te Ⅱ you something you don't want me tO say when you walk in, but the door is always open. ' ー - R A H M E M A N U E し EMANUEL: GETTY IMAGES; OBAMA: PETE SOUZA—T 工 E w 工 ITE 工 OUSE