[H]e complains that the foreign policy power was taken out of the hands of career State Department bureaucrats, where the Constitution entrusts it, and reposed unconstitutionally in the hands of a mere "President" and "Vice President."
Nothing new here. Like all capitols, Washington has long been a seat of entrenched power, as sure as if the place was full of dukes and earls. And these Trained Professionals do not care to take orders from the merely popular amateurs in whom authority and responsibility are vested. I suppose that it will always be thus, but now and again one feels the need to cleanse the temple.
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