Bookthreads This Presidents Day post is not on a chief executive, but calls attention to the public servants who make government work for ordinary Americans. In a remarkable career that saw her advise presidents from Roosevelt to Johnson, Anna Rosenberg played a role in social security, the GI Bill, civil rights, and women’s equality. When she died in 1983, the NYT called her one of the most important shapers of US policy since WWII. You can read about her in my book THE CONFIDANTE.