The Nation: Never on Sunday

Donald Alexander, 55, a tax lawyer who in 1973 became commissioner of Internal Revenue:

The public deserves better Government than they're getting. Part of the problem is due to the distractions that one finds in trying to do a job that is too large at best and much too large when up to four hours a day are spent running for the fire extinguisher, using it and refilling it. Some Sundays I almost catch up to the job by midnight, and some Sundays I catch up to where I should have been the week before....

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