Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in ABA Journal, November 1, 2013
But there are many drags other than pure politics, O’Connell says. For example, government has grown so large that the White House Office of Presidential Personnel sometimes is swamped and doesn’t move fast enough. And turnover is high: Top-level people, such as Cabinet members, leave after about three years, and their assistants or undersecretaries average two years, O’Connell says.