The Washington Post, March 20th, 1999
As a former lower-to mid-level bureaucrat for 11 or so years in the U.S. government, I was amused to read Stephen Barr's March 8 Federal Page article, "Title Creep Reported at Agencies," as well as your March 11 editorial "Federal Operetta." As a (then) career lawyer for the Department of Commerce assigned to the 1978-80 White House Trade Reorganization Task Force, I was pressed by my Commerce colleagues to do what I could to double the number of deputy assistant secretary positions in the department. They did approximately double, and the last I heard, they've since tripled. Why -- what is th...
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