President Nixon was in seclusion last week. Well, not quite. While isolated at Camp David, far from importunate visitors, children with gifts, and ambassadors with credentials, he received a steady stream of Washington officials delivered by helicopter: Cabinet chiefs, agency heads, White House aides. In pursuit of his plan to shake up the stubborn, slow-moving federal bureaucracy, he was starting with his own men. He wanted their ideas on how to make the Government more responsive to presidential command; he also wanted to discuss their futures, which in some cases are...
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