We have found it full of honest and useful public servants--but their capacity to act decisively at the exact time action is needed has too often been muffled in the morass of committees, timidities and fictitious theories which have created a growing gap between decision and execution, between planning and reality.
Kennedy critiques the inefficiencies within the Executive branch that hinder decisive action.
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