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...Cabinet should be reorganized and given more authority. The Cabinet originally consisted of only five men, the Secretaries of State, War and Treasury, Attorney General and Postmaster General, and several of these, notably Jefferson and Hamilton, saw themselves as future Presidents. Today the Cabinet numbers 17, and, as with the White House staff, several unnecessarily represent the demands of special interests for special attention (the foremost example, the Department of Education, was created mainly because teachers' unions wanted it). Since it is an iron law that committees lose effectiveness in inverse ratio to their size, the Cabinet...
NORTHEASTERN (18-5); Harris 9 10-12 28; Moss 5 2-3 12; Rucker 6 5-6 17; Leitao 2 2-4 6; Braswell 0 1-2 1; Jefferson 2 0-0 2; Robinson 0 0-0 0; Helneck 2 0-0 4; Lehmann 0 0-0 0; TEAM...
Attending a dinner at Washington's National Press Club, Ronald Reagan loosed a string of his patented one-liners. "I know your organization was founded by six Washington newspaperwomen in 1919 ... Seems only yesterday." The President then quoted Jefferson. "He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task," observed Reagan. "And ever since he told me that..." The California difference? "In Washington the flakes are real. And if enough of them fall from heaven, it stops traffic for hours." The President, who turned...
...Remington bronze of a cowboy and the paintings on the curved walls are from the defunct presidency of Jimmy Carter. The huge grandfather clock installed by President Ford still thumps out its relentless rhythm. Beyond the tall windows, the sun slants across the South Lawn, where Thomas Jefferson had mounds graded to add visual interest. Fresh-cut flowers burst from a vase on the coffee table and a mug of jelly beans sits near a lamp...
...posts. Five workers entered the Oval Office just as Dominador Julian, who has served every President since Eisenhower, was polishing the brass doorknob. They rearranged the furniture as Reagan had specified, moving the sofas into a conversation area. They also took on the Cabinet Room, replacing the portraits of Jefferson and Truman with those of Eisenhower and Coolidge. As Reagan explained to his Cabinet at their first meeting the following day: "Eisenhower is up there because I beat him for $10 the first time we played golf." The Coolidge painting, he said, was a tribute to silent Cal for reducing...