We study an organization with a principal and two agents. All three have a long-run agenda which drives their repeated interactions. The principal can influence the competition for agency by endorsing an agent. Her agenda is more aligned with her ``friend'' than with her ``enemy.'' Even when fully aligned with the friend, the principal embraces the enemy by persistently endorsing him once an initial ``cordon sanitaire'' to exclude the enemy breaks exogenously. A dynamically optimizing principal with extreme agenda either implements the commitment solution or reverts to static Nash. For less extreme principals, losing commitment power has more gradual effects.
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