My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.