ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 18.1 Introduction .........................................................................................................321 18.2 Th e President’s Personal Bureaucracy .................................................................. 322 18.3 Th e President Confronts the Executive Branch ....................................................324 18.4 Conclusions ......................................................................................................... 326
Further Reading............................................................................................................. 326
18.1 Introduction As the chief executive of the nation’s government, America’s president heads two bureaucracies. Th e fi rst is a comparatively small one more personally accountable to him. Th e second is the large federal bureaucracy whose members can be subjected to constant pressures, not only from the White House but from countless interests throughout the political system.
