Arrives with promises and preferences

Faces 14 departments and 50+agencies

What to do?

Ignore, delay, temporize

Grow, expand, develop

Reorganize, cut back, close

Personnel selections must be related

to policy goals

Wait on vacancies, use acting

Heads.

For growth—well credentialed

Appoi ntees who share vision

For cutbacks—loyalists who will

carry out White House orders

For all appointments

What credentials

What representative criteria

Background check

Acceptable to interested groups

Approvable by Senate

Not easy. Mistakes inevitable. All appointees serve at pleasure of President.

The sources of appointees—

Corporations

The Professions

The Universities

The Services

The Party faithful, campaigners.

Recruitment+approval+short service=turbulence and

A Government of Strangers.

Besides appointments a President has

Budget power

Legislative initiative

Executive Action

Task Forces and Commissions

And inherent executive power

But agencies

Can delay

Interpret and reinterpret

Complain to Congress (committee

Chairs and staff)

Enlist support of groups

Exploit media

Terry Moe—The System is Against

the President