The following Bicentennial Essay is the second in a series that will appear periodically into early 1976 and will examine how we have grown in our 200 years.
The executive staff of the first President of the U.S. rarely consisted of more than two men. When George Washington did not have the heart to keep his secretaries from going on vacation, he penned all the presidential correspondence himself. President Ford's executive staff totals 535.
Washington had no need of organizational charts or doorkeepers to prevent his staff from interfering with each other and becoming...