WHITE HOUSE SHAKE-UP SHAKES OUT

The brewing brouhaha over White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers' rumored reassignment -- as well as the idea of a White House staff overhaul -- has apparently come to nothing. Chief of staff Leon Panetta announced today that Myers would keep her job, plus receive a promotion to assistant to the President. But Myers also reportedly told friends she's splitting from the White House before the year is out. Other changes in the President's office sound like small potatoes compared with Panetta's previous promise of a major perestroika: communications director Mark Gearan, for example, is now Panetta's coordinator of strategic planning. Myers' savior was apparently President Clinton himself, who met with her Thursday night. "Clinton undercut the chief of staff he supposedly gave the power to do whatever it takes," says TIME White House correspondent James Carney. "It's sort of the shake-up that wasn't. . . The source of disorder in the White House is clearly the President himself."