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Obamas Stealth Revolution: Quietly Reshaping the Way Government Works

Friday, October 23, 2009

Quiet grumbling has surfaced among the inside-the-beltway crowdand not just over healthcare reform. People are asking, Where is Obamas big-bang reform of government?

Government reform has been a staple of presidential management for the last 50 years. President Kennedy brought in his whiz kids, led by Robert McNamara. President Johnson mandated a planning-programming-budgeting (PPB) system to link program goals and costs. President Nixon upped the ante with a management-by-objectives budget sys

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