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But the President of the United States can do his work at all only by delegating the enormous mass of it to his appointees, and by confining his own share of the purely administrative work largely to supervision and direction of these employees.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He explains that the President must delegate much of his work to appointees for effective governance.

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