he/she is the best candidate to represent them. They may have to do this by showing they hold many of the same political interest as the voters, but many times it is decided by the candidate that can show he/she has fewer skeletons in their closet than their opponent.We know that once in office these politicians have the potential to increase their power if they learn how to play the game with their peers. If they can increase their power, they are more likely to achieve the goals that they have and maybe increase their chances of being elected again. At any point in time though a person of this type could be removed when elections come around. If the voters are not pleased, that politician can be replaced with no way of stopping them.What if this were not so? What if they could acquire some type of substantial power in our government and not be easily removed by those who should have that power? In this case we speak of the bureaucrat. This is a person who works under the executive branch in all of its many agencies. They are the power behind the laws created by Congress and thus have the ability to interpret how they should be enforced. Many of these positions are civil service jobs merely requiring the person to pass a standardized test. The top positions of these agencies are reserved as patronage jobs though. This means they are available to those who are friends with the men at the top. This also means as power shifts at the top someone's job could be placed in jeopardy. The only way to stay in power at this time is to prove that you are extremely useful to the new administration, unless you are a master politician and control the nation's greatest investigation agency. This gives a man a type of autonomy that is not easily controlled by his superiors for a very long period of time.There was one man who took this type of politics to a new level in the bureaucratic realm. John Edgar Hoover was a man who could project his power eith...
