The President's Call: Executive Leadership From Fdr to George Bush
“Steven D. Potts, as director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), personally signed off on all PASs before they went to the Senate. He was very impressed with the agency heads in his contacts with them regarding government standards. He felt that the emphasis the Bush administration placed on ethics in government at the beginning of the administration had borne fruit: "There has been no scandal of real significance, compared to other administrations." 7 One PAS, a former SES, spoke highly ...of the benefit to the country of requiring a Senate confirmation of appointees, feeling that it insured better quality. Along with many others, she observed that those PASs who came from government service tended generally to have the most success. However, she noted that they also tended to have the tougher confirmation trials because they had a reputation to defend. "If they have done anything, they have made enemies, particularly if they tried to change things. In confirmation your career is on the lineit's very public and partisan and very stressful." She felt that political chiefs of staff and special assistants (NSESs and Schedule Cs) were more troublesome than PASs because, while they had not had the public exposure of a confirmation, they did have the power of a high-level position.MoreLess
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