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Charles Brannan, 46, is one of those Cabinet rarities, a career public servant who worked to the top of his department (another: Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson). After two years in the job, Brannan still seems to Washington more the hardworking, second-level Washington bureaucrat than the traditional Cabinet member. His relations with the White House are efficiently firm-he confers with the President a couple of times a week, usually lunches with him on Mondays. But the Secretary of Agriculture has never plunged into the panoply of Cabinet rank, nor has he been taken into the circle of cronies...
...nothing about farming; he had only milked some cows and gathered a few eggs in summertime on a cousin's farm. But he traveled the droughtlands by day, traveled the textbook maze of farm economics by night, learning to talk the farmer's language, and the bureaucrat...
Early this year the Bonn government shoved through a law restoring the old caste system, its provisions guaranteed to keep the snug, smug bureaucrat happy. Samples: civil servants may not be dismissed for incompetence; vacancies need not be made public and opened to competition. The Allied High Commissioners, in vetoing the new law, reminded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of his promise last November "to liberalize the structure of government and to exclude authoritarianism," insisted that he produce a more democratic civil service...
...Washington bureaucrat could see, something was wrong in Utah. All the computers and calculators of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget clicked off the same answer: Utah wasn't spending enough money, wasn't drawing her full allowance of federal grants-in-aid. Quicker than he could count up the digits in the national debt, an investigator was winging his way toward Salt Lake City to find out what was the trouble...
Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...