Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obviously have some doubts about it, and that's why we have this Commission on the Public Service. The attitude toward federal service has certainly changed. It's a matter of psychology and prestige. A feeling that civil servants get hammered by the political process, beginning with the last couple of Presidents. And after a while, you have enough people swearing at you, and you don't think it's a very promising career. Salaries are of some importance, ((but)) when you're talking about the federal civil service, this process of layering the career people with more and more...
...quiet but significant political changes Reagan has made is his reshaping of the federal judiciary, both in substance and in process. While Reagan appointed "only" three new Supreme Court Justices (who will be the swing votes on many important issues), he also appointed a new Chief Justice, with power over who writes the opinions, magnifying the appointees' combined clout. The hundreds of other federal judges Reagan appointed are even more significant, since they will interpret the Supreme Court's decisions in most cases...
...terms of process, never before have candidates for the judiciary been so thoroughly screened. When President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren, he never suspected how often he would disagree with his Chief Justice. The process now insures against such dissent. The political litmus test has been extended (though not entirely) to our "insulated" third branch of government...
Reagan's approach to the political process has stressed appearance more than governance. Never accepting the blame is a cornerpiece of the Reagan political legacy. While the buck always stopped with Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan seems content to feign ignorance and absent-mindedness time and again, letting his hand-picked subordinates resign one after another in disgrace and shame. Politicians in both parties have taken note of this absolute rejection of responsibility and learned...
...whether white Americans living in a ruined world would choose to restore their economy and natural resources in return for enslaving their Black neighbors to extraterrestials. In Bell's scenario, Black Americans allowed a white-controlled constitutional convention to disenfranchise them, overriding their protests in the name of due process and majority rule...