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Donald Devine

The Fund for American Studies

Donald Devine is Senior Scholar at The Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC. He was President Ronald Reagan’s first-term Office of Personnel Management Director when The Washington Post labeled him “Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword of the Civil Service” for cutting bureaucracy and reducing spending by billions of dollars. He was a professor at the University of Maryland and Bellevue University and is a columnist and author of 10 books, including his recent The Enduring Tension.

Bylined chapters

• 3. Central Personnel Agencies

Major recommendations in those chapters

1. 3 · 72 End or narrow the disparate impact doctrine in federal hiring Not started
2. 3 · 81 Reinstate Schedule F (Executive Order 13957) Not started

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