Henceforth the CDC director would not serve across administrations, as past directors had done, but would be replaced when the president was replaced, or usually sooner. The entire United States government had been drifting that way for some time—management jobs once done by career civil servants being turned into roles performed by people appointed by the president. One of the problems this created was management inexperience: the average tenure of the appointees fluctuated between eighteen months and two years, depending on the administration. Another was the kind of person the job now
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