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...believe so. But again, I think you are thinking in terms of people already in Government. I'm thinking in terms of people who are out there and very successful in the private sector...
...people who are already so successful that they would regard a Government job as a step down, not a step up. I don't want empire builders; I want people who will be the first to tell me if their jobs are unnecessary. Out there in the private sector, there's an awful lot of brains and talent in people who haven't learned all the things...
This is one of the reasons we should trim down the functions of the Federal Government - stripping away decisions that do not have to be made in Washington, and placing the power of decision with states, localities and the private sector. This also argues, paradoxically, for limiting the size of the White House staff. Staffs develop functions; staff members acquire staffs of their own; these multiply functions further. If you want to trim back the functions, one place to begin is by trimming back the staffs...
...country. Since the elections [in February], the progress has been tremendous. We have moved quite a long way in consolidating the peace. Our armed forces are integrating, and a single army is being formed. The dissident elements scattered throughout the country are being rounded up. In the public sector, we were naturally concerned that there was racial imbalance in the system. We have been advancing Africans, but not by getting rid of whites. We still have urgent problems - resettling people displaced by the war, reconstructing ruined schools, hospitals and roads. Of course, we have to achieve much more before...
...Bush's biggest pluses is his personal style and manner. A graduate of Andover and Yale who often wears three-piece suits and has been described as a "gentlemanly" campaigner, Bush embodies to many the Eastern Republican establishment--a sector of the electorate to which Reagan's grass-roots style has very little appeal...