MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM LYNDON B. JOHNSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700070034-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: November 30, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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November 30, 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
I have pledged that the Exec,,tive Branch will be administered with the
utmost thrift and frugality; that the Government will get a dollar's value
for a dollar spent; and that the Government will set an example of prudence
and economy.
To carry out this pledge, I intend:
To examine agency budget requests with the determination
to hold the 1965 Budget to the barest minimum consistent
with the efficient discharge of our domestic and foreign
responsibilities .
To give you my full support in your efforts to achieve
administrative or legislative changes which will eliminate
unnecessary procedures, curtail or drop programs of low
utility, institute consolidations or other organizational
economies, and effect savings in procurement.
To support salary scales for civil servants, military per-
sonn_el, and policy officials which will enable you to retain
and recruit talented, energetic, and imaginative employees.
To accord increased recognition to those governmental units
and individuals that make notable advances in providing
efficient service at lower cost.
To assist me in carrying out my pledge, I ask you:
To assume personal day-to-day responsibility for malting
your agency a model of good management and economical
administration.
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To press ahead vigorously with your program for manpower
control and utilization which you developed in response to
President Kennedy's directive of October 11, 196L.
established in response to President Kennedy's statement to
the Cabinet of September 23, 1963.
o hold agency employment at or below the personnel targets. W-{r '"a4 '
is responsible, not only for doing his assigned job to the best
of his ability, but also for devising and proposing ways to
improve his performance.
To make clear to your staff that each Government employee -, w
To seek the advice of Committees of the Congress, and of
private organizations and individuals, in finding ways to do
the public business more economically.
To submit to me promptly a report of major cost reduction
actions taken during the past year, and a statement of the
steps which you propose to take in the next year to tighten
your operations and effect savings,
The Federal Government has reason to be proud of its many recent
achievements in management improvement. But we cannot rest on past
accomplishments. There are as many savings to be made in the future
as have ever been made in the past. The citizen's faith in free govern-
merit is strongly influenced by the extent of his confidence that public
servants are alert and efficient in conserving the Nation's resources en-
trusted to their care. For this reason, we must work hard to reduce the
costs of Government, not only for the sake of the savings to be made, but
also in the interest of vindicating the people's confidence in the institutions
of democracy.
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