The Presidential Years

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It may also serve some explanatory purpose to mention that the President, in concurrence with his Accounting Officer, has consistently held the view, sometimes with great pressures to the contrary , that the staff complement should be kept as lean as efficiency allows. One outflow of this, was great caution against the seductive power-proffering temptations of an accrual of extra departmental functions, competencies and powers.

Jakes Gerwel
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