Washington | President-elect Joe Biden has chosen longtime Washington operative Ronald Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience, competence and political agility after a Donald Trump presidency that prized flashiness and personality.

Mr Klain, 59, has been a senior adviser to Democratic presidents, vice-presidents, candidates and senators. His appointment marks a homecoming of sorts, since Mr Klain served in the late 1980s as a top aide to Mr Biden when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and ran Mr Biden's office when he first became vice-president.

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