The Man on Her Left
Senior executive aide, direct to the CEO.
A salary of a hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Full benefits.
A relocation allowance.
She described the duties in careful, formal language for about four minutes, and only at the end of it did she say the actual thing, which was:
“You would travel with me.
You would be on my left in every room.
You would learn how I move and you would make sure that what people see is a chief executive and an aide and not a chief executive and a brace.”