As part of the White House's Operation Wreak Havoc response to the sequester spending cuts, the Department of Transportation warned last week that 149 control towers at small, regional airports will close down.

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"At that point, he could dictate the rules and the rules were that it was off the record, " says Martha Joynt Kumar, professor of political science at Towson University and author of Managing the President's Message: The White House Communication Operation.

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Subscribers to White's research reports--a separate business from his management operation--each month receive in the mail a fat book with hundreds of pages of nothing but numbers, including price and valuation data on more than 2, 500 stocks, along with his analysts' recommendations.

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