ABSTRACT
To be a good member of the public administration profession, one must love and respect administration just as a good lawyer reveres the law or a good doctor venerates the practice of medicine. The Constitution gives the Congress no role in the execution of laws once they are enacted—save for the power in the Senate to ratify treaties and Presidents have learned that if agreements with other nations are embodied in documents other than treaties this senatorial check can be evaded. Presidents chose as department heads men who represented a broad spectrum of the party's top leadership— prominent members of the Congress, party leaders from the largest states, major rivals for the presidential nomination, all with independent political strength and power bases. Presidents have learned to appoint nameless and faceless men, who are wholly dependent upon the President who gave them what stature they can claim.
