editor’s note: he served in the same role under bush junior from 2001-2008.
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JUNE 19, 2018 / 1:50 PM / 4 DAYS AGO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, who led the U.S. advance team for President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, is resigning, White House officials said on Tuesday.
Hagin, who plans to return to the private sector after entertaining jobs in other government agencies, will step down on July 6, the officials said.
“Joe Hagin has been a huge asset to my administration. He planned and executed the longest and one of the most historic foreign trips ever made by a president, and he did it all perfectly,” Trump said in a statement. “We will miss him in the office and even more on the road.”
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