LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT FROM JOHN A. MCCONE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400180011-9
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 13, 1964
• Content Type: LETTER

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 OFFICE OF
THE DIRECTOR
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
December 26, 1963
ME ORANDL 1. FOR HEADS OF DEPA1?B S AND AGENCIES
Executive :Registry
The President has asked me to transmit to you the attached
directive concerning control of Federal employment. You will
note that the President asks for prompt and personal action on
your part, and that he plans to review each response personally.
The initial action required is an identification of new end-of-year
employment targets for FY 1964 and 1965 below those allowed your
agency by the President's decisions on the 1965 budget. If you
have not yet been notified of that allowance, you will be advised
immediately.
As guides to the preparation of your report to the President, I
would suggest the following:
1. That the new targets for large agencies be broken
down into subtargets for each of the major constituent
parts of the agency.
2. That the targets differentiate between permanent and
other employees.
3. That the new targets be achieved by methods which
produce meaningful Government economies, rather
than by devices of a merely statistical nature.
4. That this report be submitted to the President no
later than January 10, l963, 176 It.
The form and content of the quarterly progress reports also required
by the President will be the subject of a future memorandum.
Attachment
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December 24, 1963
Subject: Control of Federal Employment
The Budget which I will send to the Congress next month will not
only halt the growth in Federal employment, but will actually make
a small reduction from this year's level.
Even though nothing like this has happened in the last decade, I
am still unconvinced that we are getting the maximum possible out-
put per employee. I believe we can do better.
The Budget Director will shortly notify you of the year-end maximum
employment levels which result from my final budget decisions for
both fiscal years 1964 and 1965.
Let me make it clear that these end.-of-year figures are ceilings,
not goals.
As soon as these figures reach you, I want you personally to re-
examine your employment situations and to establish new end-of-year
targets below these maximums. I want you to report these targets
to me promptly. I will review them personally.
When I approve new targets for your agency, you will put them into
effect and make strenuous efforts to achieve them through tighter
management, redeployment of personnel, simplification of procedures,
and stripping work to essentials.
I will expect you to make quarterly reports to me, beginning
April 1, 1964, on what you have accomplished under this effort.
Finally, once I have given my approval to your new targets, they
are not to be exceeded without my explicit approval.
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