Word: bureaucrat
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...what is a bureaucrat? A Customs Service border guard risking his life daily in the war against drugs and contraband? A Veterans Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...
...counter-cultural kind who dresses down to rip you off. He pats your back with one hand, picks your pocket with the other. There was also the budding urban pol. He was one of the nicest but most difficult to live with. To see yourself as a future bureaucrat, a part of you has to have died a bit early in life...
...Ulbricht did not look like the man destined to fulfill Lenin's dream of extending Communism to Germany. Hardly charismatic, he was short and spoke with a squeaky voice and a rasping Saxon accent. With his steel-rimmed glasses and clipped Lenin beard, he looked more like a bureaucrat than a leader. His tastes were simple. He often referred to himself as a mere cabinetmaker's apprentice, the craft he practiced before becoming a revolutionary during World War I. He used to enjoy meeting with farmers and sloshing through pigsties and muddy fields with them. He believed...
...asking Ehrlichman whether the White House had turned to the plumbers because Hoover would not approve a burglary-although Ervin misjudged Hoover's motives. In his earlier years as FBI director, Hoover allowed his agents to conduct such "bag jobs." But in his later years, the savvy bureaucrat was increasingly defensive about his image and considered such illegal acts too risky. If discovered, they would ruin his reputation...
...freeze will be run by a special group within the Cost of Living Council headed by its deputy director, James W. McLane, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate turned bureaucrat...