The senior executive service
A)was established to ensure that presidents could appoint who they wanted to top bureaucratic positions.
B) gave rise to the spoils system.
C) is comprised of mainly patronage positions.
D) was originally created to have highly skilled people serve as a bridge between political appointees and the rest of the civil service.
E) none of the above

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The senior executive service was created to have highly skilled people serve as a bridge between political appointees and the rest of the civil service. It was designed to ensure that top bureaucratic positions were filled with qualified individuals based on merit rather than political patronage.

The Senior Executive Service