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Appendix 6
Supplemental Post-Survey Interviewees

Anonymous (2)

Carol A. BonosaroExecutive Director, Senior Executive Association (Career SES)

Doc CookeDirector, Administration and Management, Department of Defense (Career SES)

Thomas F. McFeeAssistant Secretary for Personnel Administration, Health and Human Services (Career SES)

Marvin F. MossChief of Staff, Senator Paul Sarbanes

Elliot L. RichardsonAttorney in private practice (former PASSecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Attorney General, Ambassador to Great Britain, Director of Presidential Appointments, Legislative Assistant for Majority Whip)

Gerald ShawCounsel, lobbyist, and founding director, Senior Executive Association (Career SES)

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Appendix 7
Post-Survey Interview Questions

1. Relations with careeristshave they changed over timewhen you first arrived to now? How do you feel about careerists?

2. To what extent do you include careerists in policy discussions?

3. Do you have the sense that your careerists' partisan, political, or ideological views differ from your own? If so, does that make any difference in their work?

4. Do you have the sense that careerists have ever tried to sabotage your policy directives?

5. Do your careerists have close ties to Congress? Does this help or hurt your agency?

6. Do you perceive a ''quiet crisis" in the career workforce? If so, to what do you attribute it?

7. What is your assessment of the quality of the workforce?

8. Describe the various sources of pressure for/against agency policy.

9. How would you characterize your relations with the Congress?

10. How would you characterize your relations with the White House?

11. To what extent does the White House intervene in agency affairs?

12. How would you characterize your relations with other PASsin your agency, in other agencies? How much of a sense of collegiality/competition/alienation do you feel?

13. What factors do you think contribute to the relatively high rate of turnover among PAS members?

14. From your perspective, what effect does the turnover of PAS executives have on federal programs?

15. What differences, if any, do you see between the Bush and Reagan PASs?

16. In general, how do you assess the qualifications and skills of the current PASs?

17. What has been the biggest source of satisfaction in your work?

18. What has been the biggest source of frustration in your work?