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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130120-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 120
• Content Type: NSPR

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the Central Intelligence Agency;
W.aJ. Gen. Prancls W. Tarrsl.
representing the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; Jarold A. Kieffer of the
President's Advisory Committee
on Government Organization; C.
Dillon Glendenning of the Treas-
ury; Robert E. Mattison of the
White House disarmament staff:
Ralph W. E. Reid, assistant di-
rector of the Bureau of the
? Budget, and Karl Harr of the
Department of Defense.
Based an Paper Work
The famous men who sit or.
the N. S. C. base their discus-
sions, like the Cabinet, on care-
fully prepared papeA, and they When he is available he works'
are not restrained in their critic- hard at the N. S. C. papers. And
isms. But the men in big goy- even now he is beginning to send
his observations to the st, ff
ernment *ho prepare the papers
from the hospital. But he is imt!
for Cabinet members, who have able, and has not been able
a thousand other things to do during his two illnesses, to go
each week, are in the key spot,. through the long hard task of
regardles of how much they may arguing out the N. B. C. prob-
deny their authority. lems and hammering them into
T'tese instruments of depart- the policy he wants.
mental cooperajion-the N. S. C.. "The powers pod duties" of
the N. & C. planning board, and 1the Presidency, mentioned in Ar-
the Operations Coordinating Ucle II, Section 1, Paragraph A
Board, which sees that the of the Constitution, do not refer
N. S. C. policies are carried out only to those simple acts of sign-
by all concerned-provide the ing papers that have to be
President with solid staff sere- signed so that the public busi-
tees, but they cannot substitute ness can go on.
for the President. They refer not only to the
As Sidney W. Souers, the first President but to the whole of,
executive secretary of thZween the Presidency; to the direction
IN. S. C.. wrote about interde f these staffs, to the hard de-
partmental committees of th isive business of choosing be.
past: dangerous courses.
"(They] suffered for lack of aj This Is why then is apple.
W
definite mission * ? ? and most,
of all, from authoritative dtrec
tion.'
This is true to a certain extent-
today in the N.S. C. The council
and its planning board can rec-
ommend, but the Constitutional
responsibility of the President
is still the duty to decide.
hensiotf in
aahtngwn about We
illness of President >Clsenbower.
There are institutions behind
him that carry on better. than
his political opponents would
have the public believe, but these
institutions do not work so well,
without him as his political sup-
porters pretend.
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