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Give the OPM Director a place in the Cabinet

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 3, p. 83. Written by Donald Devine, Dennis Dean Kirk, Paul Dans.

Give the OPM Director a place in the Cabinet

The document says “would make senseWho acts: PresidentHow: not specifiedp. 83 in the PDF
What the document says

“If "personnel is policy" is to be our general guide, it would make sense to give the President direct supervision of the bureaucracy with the OPM Director available in his Cabinet.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 83

Stated as something that would make sense rather than as a demand: direct presidential supervision of the bureaucracy, with the OPM Director available in the Cabinet.

What the document actually says

“If "personnel is policy" is to be our general guide, it would make sense to give the President direct supervision of the bureaucracy with the OPM Director available in his Cabinet.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 83
That sentence, in plain words

If who you hire decides what gets done, the president should watch over the workforce himself. The head of OPM should sit with him in the Cabinet.

What this is about

OPM is the agency that runs hiring and pay for the whole government. The book says it would make sense for its head to sit in the Cabinet. That would put the president closer to the people who run the workforce.

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