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Strong Executive Branch Leadership Crucial for Policy Implementation
A president is elected every four years, but he or she does not run the government alone. Thousands of political appointments must be made to establish the White House's leadership of the executive branch.
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Mon Dec 24 2012
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These appointments depend on an elaborate process of recruitment, confirmation, the mastering of their offices, and the collaboration with career executives to implement the president's priorities and execute the law. But the political appointee system that developed over the course of the 20th century is broken in several important ways.