1. The staff of President Nixon:
A. demonstrated how much the government had grown in the previous fifty years.
B. was not as large as it should have been, but it allowed Nixon to exert as much control over each person as possible.
C. was generally a group who were not qualified for their jobs.
D. was almost universally hailed by the press as "the best and the brightest."
I'm stuck between choices A and D.