4: The President and His Administration
In the fourth of seven occasional programmes about the American Presidency, Anthony King looks at the complicated, often fraught, relationship between the man in the White House and the Federal bureaucracy.
He talks to two current Cabinet officers, Patricia Roberts Harris and Robert Bergland , to Joe Calif ano who has served in the administrations of President Johnson and President Carter, and to members of the White House staff. Why is it that the people the President appoints to high office are often described as his natural enemies?
Producer ANNE SLOMAN long wave only