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small dig on Carter setting up the SES
my initial impression, very much subject to error, is that Carter was trying to simplify a bloated bureaucracy that had been established in the 1880s and was not very appropriate to the needs of the 1970s. He may well have been pressured or tricked into doing the cabal's bidding on the issue of the SES, i.e. the "useful idiot" another anon mentioned.
some interdasting reads:
https://www.govexec.com/management/2018/07/after-40-years-look-back-unlikely-passage-civil-service-reform/149458/
https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/digital_library/sso/148878/61/SSO_148878_061_09.pdf