MEMORANDUM TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM LYNDON B. JOHNSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: April 29, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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April 29, 1966
AUIORANDUM TO HEADS OF DEPARv1ENTS AND AGENCIES
One year ago I asked each of you to establish a formal, systematic program
to reduce the cost of Government. Your cost reduction goals for both this
and the next fiscal year were to be the maximum which imaginative, prudent
management could achieve. You were requested every six months to reassess
your progress, reevaluate your goals, and look hard once again for new
opportunities for savings.
You know what progress your own agency is making. I also want you to know
how the Government as a whole is doing.
First goals established for fiscal year 1966 totalled $871 million for all
civilian departments and agencies.
This was good. I am now pleased to learn that your latest estimates are
even better.
- By December 31 -- the mid-point of the fiscal year -- the civilian
departments and agencies had already taken actions to save over
$700 million.
- As a result of your latest reviews, the total goal for fiscal year
1966 has been raised by $161 million. It is now slightly over one
billion dollars -- $1,032 million..
In the latest review, you also established goals for fiscal year 1967
which begins on July 1. For that fiscal year, which is still two months
away, the.present goals of the civilian agencies total $946 million,
The Department of Defense measures its cost reduction program somewhat
differently. Its goal is to save $6 billion by the end of fiscal year
1968 from savings actions taken by the end of fiscal year 1966. Defense is
making good progress. So far it has achieved $3,075 million of its goal.
A good record to date is not a signal to relax. Our savings goals must con-
tinue to be ambitious and imaginative, and we must be fully successful in
meeting them. What I said in my 1967 budget message still holds: "I believe
we are making good progress in reducing costs and improving efficiency, but
I will never be satisfied that we have done all we should." It is vital
that you.continue to give this cost reduction program your fall attention.
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