Neal Freeman writes for National Review Online about one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top advisers.

The first time around, President Trump had four chiefs of staff. All of them were well-known Beltway figures but, to Trump, all of them were relative strangers. With four different styles.

And four different networks of friends and contacts. Which led to four different shakedown cruises and, at the end and not at all surprisingly, to a chaotic term in office and a weak case for reelection.

As a reckless man once said — this time, it’s different.

Let me tell you about Susie Wiles. She has in recent weeks become famous for not being famous. No Sunday shows, no Vogue covers, no on-the-record celebrations of self and sacrifice.

Wiles has paid her dues. She was a junior-junior aide to Jack Kemp, who hired her as a favor to her father, Kemp’s pro-football friend, Pat Summerall. She married Lanny Wiles, the legendarily diligent advance man for Ronald Reagan. She worked campaigns, getting her first break in 1995 as campaign manager and then chief of staff to Jacksonville mayor John Delaney. He was the last comprehensively successful mayor in the city’s colorful history. In public esteem, John Delaney stands shoulder to shoulder with Andrew Jackson.

In 2010, Wiles took on the seemingly hopeless gubernatorial campaign of newcomer Rick Scott, who according to an early poll was known to 8 percent of the electorate. (Thanks to preemptive Democrat strikes, some of that 8 percent knew him as “scandal-ridden health-care executive Rick Scott.”) Scott listened carefully to Wiles, wrote large checks, worked his skinny butt off, and, come that November, was on his way to Tallahassee. Wiles was on her way to the Hall of Fame. …

… After the Scott miracle, Wiles was Queen of the Hill. She didn’t scratch for business. She sifted offers. She carried Florida for Trump twice and, in between, she was called in to save the floundering 2018 DeSantis campaign for governor. She saved it, of course, but in doing so found herself crosswise with the governor-elect’s formidable wife, Casey.