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93 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1978-1979)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry93 and id is 1 raw text is: Staffing the Presidency: Premature Notes on the New Administration RICHARD E. NEUSTADT In December 1976, with an August 1977 deadline, I was asked to do something very hard-to give fellow president-watchers useful information that would up-date our lecture notes on the institutional presidency, carrying forward from Ford to Carter, from Republicans to Democrats, an outline of Executive Office organization, White House included. What made this task hard was the qualification useful. The ostensible staffing pattern of a new regime in its seventh month (when this analysis was due) is an uncertain guide for the years to follow, especially when viewed from the out- side. The Truman pattern of late 1945-more crazy-quilt than pattern- gave no hint to outsiders (or insiders for that matter) of the stabilized relation- ships to come, built up by personalities not yet in place, among others, Clark Clifford and James Webb. The Nixon pattern of mid-1969 had seeming open- ness, even competitiveness in domestic policy. Daniel Patrick Moynihan balanced Arthur Burns, while Henry Kissinger struggled for acceptance by the Nixon loyalists, a struggle then in doubt. At that point Bryce Harlow, the congressional liaison man from Eisenhower's time, had far higher status in the new regime than, say, John Ehrlichman. But six months later Haldeman and Ehrlichman were in, Kissinger entrenched, the others gone or going. There- fore in August 1977 one cannot write with confidence of Hamilton Jordan and company, to say nothing of Bertram Lance! RICHARD E. NEUSTADT, author of Presidential Power and Alliance Politics, is professor of government at Harvard University and was an advisor to presidents Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. He has also served as a consultant to Carter's Reorganization Project. This article is adapted from comments prepared for the September 1977 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Political Science Quarterly VoI,,rne 93 Ncurnbe, 1 Spring 1978

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