John Heilemann, in The Washington Monthly (Dec. 1990), 161 1 Conn. Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20009.
Ask a classroom fall of college honors stu- dents where they hope to work after graduation, and they'll likely tell you IBM, or CBS, or Arthur Anderson. Ninety per- cent of them, however, never even con- sider working for the nation's largest em- ployer: the federal government.
Exactly the opposite was true six de- cades ago when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. "Washington was deluged...