Amendment ), and Withholding Tax started in WW2, leaders have
billions of dollars to spend. They create agencies, bureaucracies, and
ever expanding political staffs.
Until 4-term Franklin Roosevelt, prior President’s staffs were
modest. Thomas Jefferson had one messenger and one secretary,
whose salaries he paid personally. In 1857 Congress appropriated
money ($2,500) for a President to hire 1 clerk, if needed. President
Ulysses S. Grant had a staff of 3.
By 1900, the White House staff was 14. President Warren Harding
expanded his staff to 31. During his second term (1936--1940),
President Franklin Roosevelt increased his staff to 55. President
Carter had a staff of 351. What is remarkable is that during FDR's
first presidential campaign he criticized President Hoover's
"excessively large staff" of four.
President George W. Bush: The Executive Office of the President
[EOP] for 2005 cost $341 million for a staff of 1,850. That does not
count the 2000 staff of the White House Military Office. Nor the
White House maintenance, official entertainment, or the Secret
Service. If all of them are added, the budget is $750 million for his
staff of 6000.
This pattern of ever expanding staffs is occurring in all nations of
the world. Today the leaders are involved in every social and
economic aspect of life in their native land. Unfortunately, the larger
the staff, the less likely the leader will ever learn the actual truth.
The White House staff want to keep their jobs so naturally they too
are absorbed for months with the endless reelection activities.
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