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Policy:  There are several policy positions about Appointments which expand and change over time.  This is a new page in Presidential-Appointments.org - a result of new stories about executive appointments.  This is a very fluid area of government which comes and goes - and may be of interest to present appointees, students, and those applying for positions in government.  If you have comments, or information, about these subjects - please send them to us at Director@Presidential-Appointments.org.

     Issue:  Administration Policy for Terrorist Situations:  The Bush government has used its political appointees to execute a complex set of policies toward military combatants and "terrorists" which at its core violates at least the principles of freedoms in the United States.  The issue is complex - but is now washing over onto United States citizens, as opposed to foreign nationals.  There is a huge issue developing from the problems of torture to unlimited detention to criminal prosecutions techniques.  Ultimately, the issues relate to accountability to the US concept of the legal rights of people - to how the Constitution was theorized and is now applied.  This relates directly to the complex way the President and the present Republican Party think of how government and people relate.  There is much history to suggest that the relationship is a perversion of the Founding Fathers' commitments to the individual US citizen.  The appointive process and the nature of the people selected by the President is at the core of the executive of this policy throughout its history in the conservative movement.- - 

     Issue:  Corruption in government:  The general gist of the situation is that the Department of Justice is increasing its focus on public officials of all sorts, elected officials, civil servants, and appointees, who may be involved in illegal activity.  Various violations of campaign funds and campaign contributions are one focus - one that can torpedo any appointment possibilities for a candidate.  Needless to say, if the issue arises after an appointment, or the illegal activities occurred as a part of the appointee's job in government, the problem and the consequences are more serious.

     Public reaction to official misconduct may be getting more negative - or is so perceived by the Department of Justice.  The AP ran a story  on December 26 2004 pointing out that some US Attorneys were making this a matter of emphasis.  (Review the AP link above for the copyrighted story.)

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     John Isaacson, page owner, graduated from Washington University Law School - He was involved in Missouri state politics as campaign manager for Governor and as state Republican Campaign Chairman in 1963-1964. Isaacson was an Air Force Intelligence Officer in Europe during the Berlin Crisis under John Kennedy - President Nixon appointed him to serve on the President's Commission for the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations, serving on the Executive Committee and the China Subcommittee which recommended the admission of China to the United Nations. His political experience includes meetings with Presidents Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and Ford. He enjoyed a long personal friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt and Edna Gellhorn, the founder of The League of Women Voters. Isaacson has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Near and Far East.  He now lives in western Montana near the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide in Butte Montana, the "Richest Hill on Earth."