JPMorgan Chase executive and former U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley has talked to President Obama about being his new chief of staff, The New York Times reports. Daley, the younger brother of longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, has strong business ties—convenient for a White House that has been criticized as being antagonistic to that industry. Daley, whose other potential benefit is being a D.C. veteran, would succeed Rahm Emanuel, who left the chief of staff post to run for mayor of Chicago—a job Daley’s brother is vacating at the end of his current term.
