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...setting up his own staff when he became President, Jefferson described with admiration how Washington had handled official correspondence. Each Cabinet minister received all letters relevant to his department. Should he decide that a letter required no reply, he would nonetheless communicate it to Washington "for his information." Other letters were sent to the President with the proposed reply attached. In most cases, Washington returned them without comment. "If any doubt arose, he brought it up at a conference," Jefferson commented. "By this means he was always in accurate possession of all facts and proceedings in every part...
...Cabinet posts to Washington's four. Ford, like Nixon, has avoided Cabinet Secretaries who possess any political clout of their own that would give them substantial independence (the exception is Kissinger). Washington's chief Cabinet members were the nation's two outstanding leaders after Washington himself: Jefferson and Hamilton. As long as they stayed in office, Washington kept them under control. Under Washington, the personnel of the total Federal Government was 350. In March 1975 the number of employees in the Executive Branch alone totaled...
...Jefferson tells us that at one of Washington's early levees, his secretary, David Humphreys, shouted as Washington entered the room where his guests waited, "The President of the United States!" Washington was disconcerted. When the occasion was over, he told Humphreys angrily, "Well, you have taken me in once, but by God, you shall never take me in a second time!" From then on, Washington was found waiting when the first guest arrived...
Washington, Jefferson and their contemporaries believed that the U.S. should avoid "foreign entanglements." That conception lingered as the U.S., impregnable behind its ocean ramparts, moved across its own continent to ever-increasing prosperity. Under Wilson, this dominant policy was broken by World War I, but the concept regained force until it was finally shattered...
...There are enough people in this area who don't move their lips when they read to support two quality newspapers." Breslin is also cheering hard. "Things are changing here," he told TIME Correspondent Arthur White. "The editorial policy no longer sounds like it was written by Jefferson Davis' press secretary. The morale is good. People work hard." Breslin has only one complaint: "Allbritton hasn't even bought me a drink yet. Tell him I want that drink...