PROPOSED REVISION OF BROOKINGS BRIEFING FORMAT

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Acting Deputy Director for Administration
FROM:
SUBJECT:
John F. Blake
Acting Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Proposed Revision of Brookings Briefing
Format
1. The Director of Training proposes a revision in
the format of the briefing program for the Brookings
Institution-sponsored Conference of Business Executives on
Federal Government Operations. I regard this as an experi-
ment worth trying but will consider further revision if, in
consultation with you and with Brookings, it is found that
this less formal system is not working. I will welcome your
comments.
2. The Brookings program will continue to consist of
a luncheon from 1200-1255 in the Executive Dining Room
followed by a briefing in the DCI Conference Room from
1300-1400, a reduction of 20 minutes.
3. The Deputy Directors and Associate Deputy Directors
are again asked to host the luncheon briefings. You are
relieved, however, of the obligation to handle the major
part of the briefing, serving primarily as moderator of a
45-minute discussion period. After the usual cautionary
statements at the beginning (that the briefing is unclassi-
fied but off the record), you would provide a very general
introduction of not more than 15 minutes to the Intelligence
Community and thereafter seek to direct a discussion that
will enlighten the visitors on the role of intelligence in
national security and in the development of foreign policy.
4. Instead of employing a rotating panel of component
chiefs, "discussants" will be chosen for each event from a
wider range of Agency officers by the Office of Training in
consultation with your Senior Training Officers or other
designees. The discussants, who will also serve as table
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hosts at the luncheon, will disperse around the conference
room and participate actively in the discussion as it pro-
gresses, either to answer questions or volunteer insight
into the intelligence business. The intent of the plan,
aside from achieving a more informal and open atmosphere
than has been the case in the past, is to have the dis-
cussants, rather than the host, answer all questions except
those notably "sticky." It is also hoped that a discussant
group can be assembled capable of responding to the visitors'
topical interests.
S. The host's brief introduction will be expected to
cover the following subjects but only in the sketchiest
form: (a) the chief intelligence functions; (b) the basic
responsibilities of the member agencies of the Intelligence
Community; (c) the role of the DCI; (d) oversight; and
(e) the relationship of the Intelligence Community to the
National Security Council. He would concentrate on the
latter relationship in its substantive, not structural,
aspects. The visitors will be invited to ask questions on
organizational as well as substantive matters, and Brookings
will be alerted in advance to the expertise available in the
panel.
6. The dates of the Brookings luncheon briefings for
1977-1978 are as follows:
1977 1978
23 September 3 February
7 October 3 March
18 November 17 March
9 December 14 April
S May
9 June
30 June
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7. This program will continue to belansatha hv tto
Office of Training Special Programs Officer
,I who will be inviting your participaLion as not-
moderator from time to time and will be seeking the courlsel
of your Senior Training Officers or your designees in the
selection of discussants. This briefing program should
provide valuable experience to the discussants in dealing
with a group of business executives from major corporations
which have often been avenues of support to us in the past
and may well be in the future.
8. I have authorized inaugurating the experiment on
23 September.
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DD/A Registry
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
OTR Registry
9 SEP 1977
VIA: Acting Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Training
SUBJECT: Proposed Revision of Brookings Briefing
Format
I. Action Requested: It is requested that you approve
the recommendations of?ihis memorandum and sign the attached
memorandum to the Deputy Directors.
2. Background:
a. As you know, the Brookings Institution's
Conference of Business Executives for Federal Government
Operations visits CIA 11 times a year for luncheon
briefings. Several members of the Office of Training
staff recently met with the Brookings staff to evaluate
these briefings and discuss possible changes. To
summarize briefly, our conclusions were that the brief-
ing program would be improved by: (a) limiting the
time devoted to the intelligence structure and min.,-
mizing the use of the charts; (b) giving greater
attention to the relationship of intelligence to the
foreign policy process; and (c) making better use and
improving the selection of panelists (hereafter called
"discussants") so that the broad range of expertise
available in the Agency will become more apparent and
the value of intelligence to the development of foreign
policy better understood.
b. An overriding consideration in proposing
change, aside from the obvious desire to respond to
some well-considered comments by Brookings staff mem-
bers, is that the typical Brookings guest now arrives
with far more understanding of the intelligence system
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than was the case in the past. He has been exposed to
a great deal in the press and is ready with questions.
He has also completed a week's meeting with high-
ranking officers of the Executive Branch, the Congress,
and the media during which he has become steeped in the
major problems facing government and the decision-
making processes involved. One of the Brookings staff
commented that it is at CIA, the last stop on the road
before home, that the pieces of the week get put back
together--at least, in the foreign policy field.
3. Proposed Changes:
a. That the host (a Deputy Director or Associate
Deputy Director) limit his initial briefing from the
usual 30-40 minutes to about 15. In addition to making
the customary cautionary statements about the off-the-
record nature of the meeting, he would briefly cover:
(a) the chief intelligence functions; (b) the basic
responsibilities of the member agencies of the Intel-
ligence Community; (c) the role of the DCI; (d) over-
sight; and (e) the relationship of the Intelligence
Community to the National Security Council. He would
concentrate on the latter relationship in its substan-
tive, not structural, aspects. As moderator for the
remainder of the program, he would, of course, invite
questions in all of these areas.
b. That there be a larger number of discussants
chosen from among a wider range of Agency officers.
Speaking ability, as well as ability to contribute to
the discussion, would be an important factor in their
selection.
c. That the discussants be selected for each
program by the Office of Training's Special Programs
Officer after consultation with the Senior Training
Officers of the Directorates and DCI area.
d. That the time for the briefing, including the
luncheon, be reduced from the present two hours and
twenty minutes to no more than two hours.
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4. Discussion:
a. We do not anticipate having the discussants
sit as a formal panel but, rather, dispersed throughout
the audience in the Conference Room, responding to
questions or volunteering information. The role of the
host as moderator becomes very important in this for-
mat, while his role as briefer diminishes. This change
should eliminate the need for much preparation time on
his part; but moderating can be a demanding skill. If
we find with experience that this is not a congenial
role for some of the hosts, we can adjust the format to
introduce a formal moderator. In that case, we would
suggest a member of the staff of the Office of Training
or someone from the staff of the Directorate of Intelligence.
b. The discussants would also serve as luncheon
table hosts (on a ratio of two CIA to four guests).
Their involvement in the Conference Room would, as
indicated, be in a round-table format so that we would
lose the formality we have had in the past with the
panel of four component chiefs at the front of the
room. The CIA numbers would not be any greater than in
the past. The difference is that the table hosts,
except for the component chiefs, have generally not
taken part in the discussion and were chosen for their
likely congeniality with an individual guest more than
their specific expertise. The number of discussants
would depend upon the availability of space (44 chairs).
There are usually 32 to 36 Brookings guests. This
would leave room for 8 to 12 CIA participants.
c. We have considered, in reviewing this program,
the possibility of using a briefer other than a Deputy
Director or Associate Deputy Director. However, the
Brookings staff has indicated that the group has become
accustomed during the week to dealing with high-level
governmental officers and would expect at least some
involvement of senior CIA officers. They have made it
clear that a "public relations type" briefer would not
be acceptable. They would not be averse to a single
spokesman; but we believe the present format has rreat
value for us in training our own officers in dealing
with the outside world and in developing the confidence
of business executives.
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S. Recommendations:
a. That you approve the proposed changes outlined
in 3a, b, c, and d above and that you sign the attached
memorandum to the Deputy Directors.
b. That the Director of Central Intelligence be
provided a schedule of the Brookings briefings in
advance and invited to take the initiative in letting
us know when he would like to participate. (If this
recommendation is approved, an appropriate memorandun
to the DCI will be prepared.)
c. It would please us very much to have you
undertake the first Brookings briefing program as host-
moderator on 23 September. If you are not able to do
so, we request your concurrence in inviting Mr. John
McMahon, Acting Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community, to serve as host.
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Deputy Director for Administration
Alfonso Redriguez
Director of Trebling
11 March Visit of America* Institute
of Aerseautics and Astronautics
knew ppreximately ISO members of the
American, institute o Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
are scheduled visit CIA on the evening of 11 March for a
buffet and Dr ings-typer briefing. The program follows the
pattern of the recent evening program for the Harvard Businsss
School. The program will begin with refreshments and light
buffet at 174$ in the Rendezvous Room and will be followed
at 1930 by a briefing in the Auditorium. The evening will
conclude, after a question and answer session, at 2100.
Mr. Duckett will serve as hest and primary spokesman, with
TAT I Blake. Dr. Stevens, and Mr. Wells (for the
IMO) serving as panelists.
2 We have asked the Executive Officer of DDS$T to
to have at least 10 DDS4T officers participate in
ing to supplement the Office of Training staff who
on head to assist in escorting. The Offices of
y and Logistics have been alerted to the visit.
3. The charge to the AIAA members for the Whit (and
to any CIA staff who participate) is MOO par person.
lease nabs check payable to Executive Dining Room Fund.)
The AtAA will charge its members an additional $1.50.
4. We will be delighted to have the participation of
members of your miffs, in addition to the 10 we have requested
from MIT. We viii appreciate having their names as soon
as possible so that we may have an accurate count for the
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On the evening of March 11, the Central Intelligence Agency
will provide an unclassified briefing to AIAA-NCS members
of CIA Intelligence functions in support of US policy for
a peaceful world. The program consists of:
Refreshments and Light Buffet 5:45p.m.-7:15p.m.
Briefing 7:30p.m.-8:15p.m.
Question and Answer session 8:15p.m.-9:00p.m.
with CIA Executive panel
Dinner facilities limit the attendance to 150 of our members.
Also, government regulations. restrict this type of meeting
to US citizens. Of course no photos or note taking.
So, please phone our NCS office, 347-7509, NOW with full
name, social security number, and organization; on a?-
first-come, first-serve reservation basis. The cutoff date
for these reservations has to be Monday, March 1. Drinks
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American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics
815 15th Street, N.W. - Suite 810
Washington D.C. 20005
Dear Mr. Pearce:
Your letter of 22 July to Mr. Angus Thuermer has beers
referred to me as the Office of Training is responsible
for arranging and coordinating programs of the type you
requested.
We will be glad to set up a program after January 1976
for the Washington Section of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics similar to the Brookings
Conference yrt? attANTIAPA at thn CIA Headquarters several
years ago. lof my staff, who I understand
has already been in touch with you, informs me that as Nally
as 200 persons could be expected. Unfortunately we will not
be able to accommodate more than 150 persons because of
limited dining facilities in the evening, when this program
will have to be conducted.
We would plan to open the meeting about 6:30 p.m. in the
CIA Headquarters Building in Langley, Virginia with refresh-
ments and buffet at an approximate cost of $5.50 per person.
Then would follow a 45 minute briefing on the Agency by one
of our key senior officials. In the question and answer
period to follow, the speaker will be assisted by senioc
pplp14A xop_resenting the four Directorates -- the same
procedure as in the Brookings Conferences.
, We would like to have as much advance notice of the date
as possiOle iNtd at least three weeks prio 't we
1101,1 regare a list of the participants.
Special Programs Officer, will coordinate t
Agency. He can be reached on telephone number
Sincerely,
Alfonso Rodriguez
Director of Training
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? SENATE February 18, 190.9
Shortened decision intervals and reaction
timea drive a President to Senn his calculue
of strategy on the run. AS it were, placing a
prernillin on accurate and adequate informa-
tion systems and an support.
The modern President lives with a relent-
less social criticism that generates dissatis-
factions with the quality of life and lead-
ership and tends to force his timing and
priorities.
In this kind of world, the President, by
the logic of his position, must have two over-
riding managerial concerns:
How can the reds:rid government identify;
moistness, train, and release the energy of the
most impressive talent in the nation for de-
veloping and carrying out federal policy?
How can stair and line rumengements in
the executive branch contribute to more:ra-
tional and ima.gtna live policy inputs to
political decision maning, and how can they
contribute to more effective and coordinated
policy implementation?
Theo two concerns must be specifically
?? related to the modern President's inevitable
preocempations in the Acid of public policy:
national security, economic stability and
growth, environmental management and.
control, and human resource elovelopmenie
Concretely, in national security affairs
modern Presidents cannot afford a series of
"Bay of Pigs" episodes, nor can they afford
con tredictions between diplomatic and mili-
tary initiatives. In domestic affairs, they can-
not afford to allow brave legislative responses
In the fields of environmental management
:and control and human resource develop-
ment to be blunted by Ineptness and con-
fusion in implementation, as has been the
CAS,: with much of the Great Society legis-
lation of 1064-65. In economic affairs, Presi-
dents cannot afford to return to earlier days
when elm varying power centers of economic
stabilization policy making (notably key
congressional committees, the Budget Bu-
reau, the Council of Economic Advisers, the
Treasury, and the Federal Reserve Board)
went their aeperate ways, To do so would bo
to Invite economic disaster.
The difficulty is that thcamagnitude of the
political as well as administrative tasks in
assuring some modicum of competence and
. coherence in thee? preeminent areas of pub-
lie p011ev 13 staggering. For there are no or-
ganientional ohms:deka capable of OVOICOM-?
ing the enormous centrifuge of governance
In our pluralistic society.
An attack upon the managerial inadequa-
cies of the federal government should en-
core:atm at least the Executive Office of the
Preeltient the departmental and agency
structure, the federal Yield office structure,
the devolution system for the transfer of
Sederal funds and functions to nonfederal
agencies, and the federal personnel system..
As we shall note later, none of these five
points of attack can he negotiated without
major presidential attention to the config-
saratiorts of power dominating the Congress.
Before examining policy alternatives and
recommendations relating to each of these
separately and in combination, a brief re-
view or federal reorganization efforts of the
past several decades le in order, for future
poesdnittlea are Inevitably conditioned by
the legacy of the past,
I:ZORGANIZATION: A erase, HISTORY
Concern with the organization and manage-
ment of the national government goes hank
a long way. The fleet study was COMMIS-.
:51011PCi by the Continental Congress in 17110.
For the fleet century of this nation's history,
however, investigations into these ItRitieS were
feeble and intermittent.
It was only when, the federal budget ci.p-
preached tale billion-donar mark, during the
mit ninietration of President; William Howard
Taft, th at A major attempt WA made to ex-
amine question.; of overall structure and pro-
cc:dined. And even Ulu Tisrli Commie:don on
Letniorriy end Efficiency (the Cleveland Coins
miesion, 191043) devoted most of its ener-
gies to minute problems of internal manage-
mcmt. The major fruit of its labors wee the
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which
established the Bureau of the Budget (DOB)
in the executive branch and the General Ac-
counting Office in the legislative branch. The
Bureau of the Budget was the first nonwar-.
time centripetal stair agency available to the
President for the conduct of his managerial
responsibilities.
The 1920s witnessed a variety of additional
proposals, both legislative and executive,
,focused on administrative reorganization.
Most of the major recommendations got no-
where. Occasional authorizations were given
to the President for minor reassignments of
functions across agency lines, but Congress
systematically pigeonholed or voted down
any major delegation of poever to the Presi-
dent for reorganizing executive branch func-
tions.
In 1032, President Herbert Hoover sub-
nnitted a message to the Congress calling for
measive reorganization of the executive
branch. In a claside statement of the "prac-
tical difficulties of such reorganization," he
commented as followe:
"Not only do different fractions of the Gov-
ernment fear such reorganization. but many
associations and agencies throughout the
country will be alarmed that the particular
function to which they are devoted may in
some fashion be curtailed. Proposals to the
Congress of detailed plans for the reorganiza-
tion of the many different bureaus and in-
dependent agencies have always proved in
the past to be a sign for the mobilization of
efforts from all quarters which has destroyed
the possibility of constructive action." s
How penetrating this observation was can.
be judged by the fact that after the law Was
passed every executive order submitted by
President Hoover to implement the act was
disapproved. Fenthermore, the law itself pro-
vided for key exceptions -to the President's
sphere and requested him to set up consoli-'
dation& of the following governmental activi-
ties:
"Public Health '(except that the provisions
hereof shall not apply to hospitals now under
the urisdiction of the Veterans Administra.
Von), Personnel Administration, Education
(except the Board of Vocational Education,
shall not be abolished) . . and to' merge
such other activities, except those of a purely
military nature, of the War and Navy De-
partments. as . . . may be common to both
. . except that this section shall not apply
to the United States Employees Compensa.
? tient Conwrtission," 2
This was not the first nor WAS ii to be last.,
of such explicit exceptions to the reorgani-
cation authority of Presidents.
The coming .of the New Deal brought a
totally new dimension to the policiee arid or-
ganization of the executive branch. A bevy .
of new laws created a host of TLOW agencies
and a variety of new functions within old
agencies. And President Franklin D. noose-.
volt had no institutional machinery for rae ?
tionalizing and resolving emerging adminis-
trative issues, or for supervising in. any
meaningful sense the hundred-odd separate
departments and agencies that reported di-
rectly to him.
In 1036, President rtooeevelt created the
Committee on Administrative Management
under the chairmanship of Louis .Brownlow,
The report of the Brownlow Committee was
probably the most sensible and Impreesive
1 W. Brooke Graves (comm) Reorganization
of the Executive Branch, 0/ 41te Government
of the United States: A Compilation 0/ Patio
forma tion and Significant Dvrtmatts,
2012-1948,- Library of Ccmgrees, Legislative
Reference Saralee, Public Afraire Bulletin
No, 00 (1049) p. 0G.
2 Graves (oomp,), Reorganition of the
Executive Brditch (empluiele supplied.) .
ever made on federal government rf; r!An 1ZR..
filen. Many of its reconinienclionene, notably .
those concerned with the indepermens -
Watery commissions, the Civil Service, the?
General .Accounting Office, and new cabinet
departments, were largely ignored ley the
Congress. Its laStilliS contribution was the
euccessful recommendation to crease on Ex-
ecutive Office of the President (FOP) con- ?
taining an expanded Wince House aeaff, the
Bureau of the Budgee (until then homed
in the Treasury Department), and a Na- -
tional Resources Planning Board. Although
the last was killed . by congreseional action
in withholding appropriations- in the early
1040s, the essential rubric of the Executive
Office has remained. It is inconceivanhe that ,
the goveemnent could have su.ceeeefully
negotiated the turbulent currents of the
past quarter century without it.
The Second World War saw the inevitable .
proliferation or war-related agencies, moist of
which disappeared at the end of the conflict;
But the experience of war, especially the ?
difficulties of relating, seporato military eery-
'Ices to ?the consolidated demands of emphib?
ious warfare and the serious problems of in-
terrelating diplomatic and military initiatives:
and intelligence; led In 1047 to tho?National
Security Act -which created a National De--
fame Establishrn.ent, a National Security
Council, and a Central Intelligence Agency..
It would take time for there oomponcnts to ?
emerge into any kind of structural coherence,'
but the 1047 act sot the foundation stone for
the future.
In the immediate postwar years, the other
major organizational development was the
creation of the Council of Economic Advisers
alii dtehde Executive Office of the President. This
d
staff resource has been of invaluable
help to the President and the Congress in ?
analyzing the state of the economy, in plan- ?
ning fiscal policy, and in acting as the major.
catalyst of interagency (BOB, Federal n.
servo, Treasury) cooperation on fiscal mat-.
tors. ? ?
Also in 1047President Harry Truman asked''
Congress to create a bipartisan., twelve-man' -
Commission on Organization of the Execu-
tive Branch of the Government. ?
The Commission (the First Hoover Com-
mission) reported, and at length. in 1049. -
A number of its recommendations were .
adopted, under President Truman and later
nnder President Dwight D, Eisenhower: the s
creation of a Department of Defense (re-
placing the NationalDefonee Establishment) :?
tho assignment of the National Seetusity'S
Connell to the Executive Office of the Presi-
dent; the ere:atm), of a cabinet-level depart- ? ?
mont of Health, Education, and Welfare
. (HEW); and the centralization of increased
authority in department heads, cutting away
at some of the statutory authority that Con- -
geese had assigned at the subdepartment
level. But many sacred cows were left undis-dd
turbed, and tho commission's pleane for a .:
? "sharp reduction" in the number of 'federal'
. administrative agencies fell upon deaf con-
gressional ears.
A Second Hoover Commission was created 'S
in the mid-1050On but its mandate, to ex-.:
?- amine governmental functions which should
be discontinued, was preposterous, for It in-
vaded the constitutional. prerogatives orS:
President and Congress, The' commission's ;-
effective residue was little snore than a chem-
ical trace.
Aside from Secretary Kobert S. McNamara's -
progress in transforming Defense from a de
lure to a de facto department, the creation. '
of an Office of Science and Technology in the
Executive Office?of the President, and the as-
signing of a White House role to the. chair-
man of the Civil Service Commis:dem no sub- .
etential success greeted the John P. Kennedy
administrations' varlowa attempts to reorga-
nize the government.
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As PRESIDENT OF ,a711.DOKIJNIGS I
Kermit Gordon, federal budget bureau director under two .
?administrations, will become president of the Brookings
Institution a ,!).une 30.
Gordon, 50, will succeed Robert Calkins, 64, who has !
headed the privately funded research organization for 15 1
years. Calkins is retiring a year early to become vice chan- ?
cellor for social sciences and a professor. of economics at the
University of California's new Santa Cruz campus.
? Gordon was appointed director of the Bureau of the .
Budget in 1962 and continued in that position under President
Johnson until 1965, when he resigned to become a vice presi-
dent of Brookings. ?
During Calkins 15 years as the head of Brookings, the
organization's budget increased from $300,000 to $4 million ,-
and its .endowment from $6.6 million to $30 million: Calkins .
had been professor, department hc.ad ,and dean from 1932 to
1941 on the Berkeley-campus of the University of California.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Mr. Roy A. Baze, Manager of
Supply Department
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Post Office Box 2180
Houston, Texas 77001
7 March 1967
Dear Mr. Baze:
It was our pleasure to have you visit the Central
Intelligence Agency in January when you were partici-
pating in The Brookings Institution's Conference for
Business Executives on Federal Government Operations.
We thought that you might find the enclosed handouts
interesting and useful.
Sincerely,
Assistant to the Director
Enclosures (3)
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Mr. Thomas Baron, Vice President
Exploration and Production Research
Division
Shell Development Company
Post Office Box 481
Houston, Texas 77001
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Dear Mr. Baron:
It was our pleasure to have you visit the Central Intelligence
Agency in (January)(February) when you were participating in
The Brookings Institution's Conference for Business Executives
on Federal Government Operations. We thought that you might
find the enclosed handouts interesting and useful.
Sincerely,
Enclosures (3)
Assistant to the Director
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ansrrsAIL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
D-R-A-F-T?
Mr. Thomas Baron
Vice President
Exploration and Production
Research Division
Shell Development Company
Post Office Box 48l
Houston, Texas 77001
Dear Mr. Baron:
As a sequence to your visit with us in January (February)
when you participated inthe Brookings Instution Conference far
Business Executives on Federal Government Operationslwe are
pleased to send you a pamphlet outlining the history and
functions of this Agency, a brochure describing career
opportunities, and an article from U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT.
We sincerely hope that you consider your Conference was
helpful and productive and that your time was well spent.
Sincerely,
Assistant to the D rector
Enclosures
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CONFERENCE FOR BUSINESS EXECUTIVES
ON
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
January 15
201 1967
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
:fHOMAS BARON
Vice President
Exploration and Production
Research Division
Shell Development Company
Post Office Box 481
Houston, Texas 77001
ROY A. B ZE
Manager Su 1 Department
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Post Office Box 2180
Houston, Texas 77901
AOBERT T. BORTH
Washington,Representative
Government-Corporate Affairs
General Electric Company
777 Fourteenth Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20005
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pONALD G. BUNNELL
Coordinator
Government and Contract Sales
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Post Office Box 2180"
Houston, Texas 77001
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JOHN T. CAULFIELD.
Engineering Manager - Military
Space Systems
Federal Systems Division
International Business Machines
Corporation
136 Washington Avenue
Endicott, New York
JOHN B. CLAR4
Assistant Director
Domestic Patent Operations
International Business Machines
Corporation
Old Orchard Road
Armonk New York 10504.
F. M. DOUGHTY
Manager
Refining Economics and Planning
Refining Coordination Department
Standard Oil Company (New jeresey)
,30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10020
W. H. P. DRUMMOND
Vice President
Development Engineering
Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.
Missile and Space Systems Division
3000 Ocean Park Boulevard
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JACK R. FRANKS
Director of Manufacturing
Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.
Missile and Space Systems Division
3000 Ocean Park Boulevard
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EDGAR W. GREGORY, II
Manager - Market Information and
Analysis Operation
Flight Propulsion Division
General Electric Company
Building 2-45, 1000 Western Avenue
rWest Lynn, Massachusetts
B. HOLDGRAF
Vice President
Central Marketing Region
Shell Oil Company
10 South Riverside Plaza
Chicago, Illinois 60606
OLIVER C. HOLMBERG
Manager, Federal Income Tax
Problems
Department 568
Sears, Roebuck and Co,:
c,hicago, Illinois 60607
ROBERT W, HUEBNER
Vice President - Southern Area
The Sourthern New England
Telephone Company
430 John Street
Bridgeport, Connecticut
FRANK T. LeBART
Manager, Public Relations Division
Esso Research and Engineering
Company ?
Post Office Box 111
Linden, New Jersey 07036
4GEORGE R. LORD
Assistant Vice President
Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone
Company
421 S. W. Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
,EDWARD D. LOSCH,
Manager, Investment and Growth
Department
Tar and Chemical Division
Koppers Company, Inc.
1201 Koppers Building
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
LiPAUL F. MANIERI
Plant Manager
International Business Machines
Corporation .
1818 New York Avenue, N. E.
Washington, D. C. 20002
KEITH L. MARTIN
General News Manager,
Public Relations Department
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
240 North Meridian Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46209
MICHAEL M. MASTERPOOL
Manager - Corporate Public
Information Operation
General Electric Company
570 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10022
ALBERT J. NATICK
Assistant to the President
Libby, McNeill and Libby
200 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60604
DWARD W. SIEBERT
Civic Affairs Manager
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
f)00 Washington Street
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Employee Relations Attorney
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
3333 West Arthington Street
Chicago, Illinois
MELLOR W. STEVENSON
Vice President, Business Development
Midland-Ross Corporation
55 Public Square
cleveland, Ohio 44113
i'RANCIS J. SWAYZE
Assistant to President
Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Pan Am Building
New York, New York 10017
WILLIAM F. TRENT
Attorney
Pet Incorporated
1401 Arcade Building
812 Olive Street
St. Louis, Missouri
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YMOND GEORGE O'NEILL
District Manager, Data Processing Div.
International Business Machines Corp.
Washington,-BO. D.C.
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A. W. WEBER
Vice President and Director,
Facilities Division
Corning Glass Worls,s
corning, New York
JOFIND. WEIDLEIN
Manager, Marketing Planning
PPG Industries
Fiber Glass Division
One Gateway Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
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HAROLD PAUL SHAWLEE
Manager of'Civil fairs
Union Oil Co. of California
Los Angeles California
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Angeles, California
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February 5-10, 1967
PRELIMINARY LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
JOHN H. AITCHISON
IBM DireMir, aS37"?tems Engineering
Corporate Staff
International Business Machines Corporation
Armonk, New York
SEA VER AMES BALLARD \i
Vice President, Emeryville Research Center'
Shell Development Company
1400 53rd Street
Emeryville, California- 94608
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JAMES STANISLAUS BATES
Assistant General Manager
Marine Sales Department
Esso International Inc.
15 West 51st Street
New York, New York
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ORVILLE EUGENE BOTTORFF
Deputy Director - Administration
Missile & Space Systems Division
Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.
5301 Bolsa Avenue
Huntington Beach, California 92646
CLAUDE STOUT BRINEGAR
President
Pure Oil Company
A Division of Union Oil Company .of California
200 East Golf Road
Palatine, Illinois 60067
ROBERT HAROLD DOXTATOR
Manager, Component Operations
Components Division
International Business Machines Corporation:
East Fishkill, New York
CLARENCE EDWARD DREW
Manager - Public? Issues Analysis
, Marketing and Public Relations Services
General Electric Company.
570 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10022
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Manager, Manufacturing Personnel Services
Office Products Division
International Business Machines Corporation
Lexington, Kentucky
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CARL EARL ECKMAN, JR.
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TITLE: Chief, Program Manager,
LTVElectronsystems Inc.
Greenville Division
P.O. Box 1056
Greenville, Texas
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WALTER BULLARD ELLIS
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1TLE: Asst. Vice President, General Headquarters
The Chesapeake and Potomac ,Telephone Companies
1710 H Street NW, Washington, D.C.
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Works Manager.
PPG Industries
Post Office Box 31
Barberton, Ohio 44203
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Area General Representative
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
225 W. Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois
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HUGH JENCKS
Press Representative
Standard Oil Company (New Jersey),
1612 K Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20007
JOHN ELLIS LATTIN, JR.
Vice President and General Manager
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
- ?Post Office Box 2010
El Paso, Texas 79950
RODNEY CURTIS LINTON
Cashier
National Bank of Detroit
611 Woodward Avenue
Detroit. Michigan 48232
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? Manager - Employee Relations
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Post Office Box 2180
Houston, Texas
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? SAMUEL WILLIAMS MEEK, JR.
Assistant Vice President
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
23 Wall Street
New York, New York 10015
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CHARLES CLIFFORD RANDOLPH, III
Publisher - Business Week
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
330 West 42nd Street
New York, New York 10036
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CLAUDE BIRTRIUM SHARP
Vice President Marketing
' Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
One Parkway
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
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Federal Marketing Coordinator
Xerox Corporation
1735 Eye Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
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Treasu r .
'Caterpill Tract? Company ?
Peoria, Illois
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233 Broas. ay
New York,
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LEMUEL DALE WOODDY, JR.
Producing Advisor - Europe
Producing Coordination Department
Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10020
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NED THORTON WEILER
Senior Director
Advance Systems and Technology
Missions and Space System
Douglas Air Craft
3000 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, Calif.
JARLATH O'NEILL EDWARDS
Controller
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Post Office Box 2180 ?
Houston, Texas
ROBERT REISS SCHULDT
Consultant - Manpower Planning gt Development
General Electric Company
570 Lexington Avenue
New Yo.rk,New York 10022
Jan. 17, 1967
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JAMES JOSEPH JOHNSON
Industry Manager - Printing and Publishing
Data Processing
IBM Corp.
112 East Post Road
White Plains, New York
DONALD TEMPLE ATKINSON
Manager, Defense Electronics
Field Operation
Defense Program
General Electric
777 - 14th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
HAROLD AUGUST KRUEGiEK
General Manager,-Oiark Lead Company
P.O. Box 250
Ellington, Missouri 63638
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,PASADENA,- CALIF..
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,an lidepeeclent:research ageric.
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studios for the U.S; governeicnt;',
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AMERICAN SURVEY
. FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
-1-1 has already become clear that the
I educated approach to government, which!
is so marked a feature of President Kennedy's
Administration; will, like, the golfing at),
proach of his , predecessor, _come in. for its
share of eriticism. But in spite of caustic
comments horn some quarters, the learned
bodies whose aid has been invoked continue
to beam at the calls for their help. One of
the most interesting of these is the Brookin
!InstittitiOn,_a_Striall but distinguishe research
:organisation in the heart of Washington
iwhich has worked for four decades in the_
Ifields of government, economics and foreign
!affairs. It was Brookings _whose staff pro-
!dueed, in the &Owner of 1960 the famous
study of the problems inherent in the change_
?
! from one Administration to another : at the
precise moment when these problems were
puzzling the Kennedy forces.
Since then the Institution has satiSfied
other needs, both transitional and funda-
mental. Because the American system,
recognising no equivalent of the British
"loyal opposition," provides neither staff nor
quarters nor even postal addresses for an
incoming Administration until its members
actually move into office 'on Inauguration
Day, groups preparing reportS', for the
President-elect found themselves : With . -
nowhere to work between November and
January, except a park bench., ;In ?this frigid?
_
situation the Brookings staff, which had just !
moved from Outgrown quarters tpa _spacious
- :
new building, came to the reScue It prn-
vided rooms for Conferences and -consultations
and it had experts on government and
economics whose advice could be sought. It
had a reference library at once competent and
pertinent; it even had a Series of carrels
mediaeval word for study space: which the
Oxford English Dictionary declares obsolete
but which Brookings finds fitting) for harried
members of various task forces.
As a research centre, Brookings is unique
in Washington ; its position there is not the
least of its advantages. Washington is a, city
winch is more occupied with the practice than
! with the theory of government and it lacks
a recognised centre for post-graduate studies
in the realtn of the social sciences. To pro-
vide this is one of Brookings's dearly held
aims. Its new blinding bears the title
"Critter for Advanced Studies." on the side
of one wing; plans for another building which
. is to have more extensive facilities for such
studies are already under way.
The desire of the extraordinary business
man who gave his name and most of his
fortune to Brookings was: that his creation
should put the insights of the social 'sciences
at the service of the government. This is an
ideal not without some peril. The social
sciences .are relatively new; moreover, a pri-
vately financed research organisation with a
:declared interest in the affairs of government
does_ not always .find it easy to convince
everyone of its political neutrality. Moreover,
academic institutions organised in the con.-
ventional way raise their eyebrows at the less
conventional approaches which are a source
of Brookings's strength.
UNMOVED by criticisms, Brookings con-
tinues to flourish. In the past six years
its staff and its financial resources have both
doubled. Its staff, with a hard core of per-
haps a dozen scholars on permanent tenure,
includes some seventy more attached to it
?for varying terms and under various arrange-
ments. Its annual operating income, derived
in part from grants by philanthropic founda-
lions, grew from under $700,000 in 1954 to
close on $2_ million at the end of 1960; its
total 'assets (including the cost of its new !
building, which was paid before the move was
made) rose over the same period 'from $7
? _
million to $16 million. Its popularity with
the fund-granting foundations keeps pace
with its popularity with government, which
makes repeated requests for its research ser-
vices. In part this popularity is due to the
new liveliness of what was sometimes
regarded, in earlier years, as a formidably
conservative group. In the past six years
Brookings's contact with modern realities has
been increasing and its hospitality to newer
lines of investigation has been attracting
younger men.
The character of the Institution's output
varies. Careful, classic studies in their chosen
field may be initiated by scholars on the staff,
or by men with other academic connections
who desire to work under the wing of Brook-
ings. Most of the projects for study which
are given the Institution's support are
expected to result in books that will be
published by Brookings, although sometimes
a study-made tinder the auspices of Brookings
may, for one reason or another, be published
by an outside press. Each study, when it :is
submitted for publication, is reviewed by a
specially appointed committee of experts, and
revised by the author with due attention to
their recommendations before it can receive
the Brookings imprint. This editing by
committee does not always improve a book's
readability and liveliness of presentation is
still suspect, but recently, there has been a
visible improvement in lay-out and typo-
graphy, along with more alluring dust jackets.
Short "problem papers" on points' of
specific difficulty may be either inspired by
the staff or requested by a government office
or an outside group. Recently Brookings has
framed a long-range programme of study and
research , on the !social, economic, political,
legal and international implications of the
exploration of space for the government And
'a five-year'pinlect for research and education
on the econOrnics of taxation and government
expenditure is .being initiated by the Institu-
tion under th& guidance of a -National Com-
mittee on Government Finance, with funds
provided by the Ford Foundation. Othe.r
work includes technical assistance to Vietnam
and the framing of a tax system for South
Korea. Anew departure is the State Depart-
ment's request that Brookings undertake
studies of deVelopment problems in col-
laboration with the Overseas Development
Institute in ? London_ which has received a
similar request from the British authorities.
In addition, the staff has recently brought
into play techniques of communication at
once older and newer than the printed page.
Recognising that the daily contact with
government affairs which is possible in
Washington, like the government's need for
quick answers, offers areas for study and
service which are still unexplored, confer-
ence programmes of varying patterns have
been devised to serve young Congressmen
seeking fo-kirioW more about their jobs, senior
executives in different government depart-
talents eager to exchange mutual problems
and solutions and the representatives of big
companies who have been assigned to the
capital and are._ Puzzled by its complexity.
Frankly experimental, these approaches con-
stitute a fresh attack on the centres of isola-
tion which develop within a big government.
So far,. Brookings has limited its work in
practice to the two social sciences singled out
by its, founder : conoinics and -lffkai
:science. It. lays little stress on sociology,
still less on anthropology and social psycho-
logy. Tacit recognition that these latter three
may prove increasingly important, particu-
larly to the new countries springing up. from
the colonialism of the past, may modify the
present pattern. The president of the
Brookings Institution, Dr Robert Calkins,
whose broad grasp of modero problems has
been a great factor in the recent expansion
of the research which it undertakes, recog-
nises that the growth of the -federal govern-
ment, at home and abroad, requires insights
more extensive than those offered by Mr
Brookings's two original disciplines.
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that is interruptible. If at any time domestic users of gas are in
danger of running short, the two companies can divert supplies from
Edison and other industrial consumers.
The electric power company proposes to end this dependence
by bringing in its own gas. Most of this-38o million cubic feet
out of a total of 455 million cubic feet a day?would come from
the fields of the Humble Oil and Refining Company in South Texas,
on the famed King Ranch, but it would be transported to California
by way of a pipeline through northern Mexico. The rernai*g__
75 million cubic feet a day would come from Mexican gas Addi
across the border. While the Texan reserves are already bang
highly exploited, those in Mexico are undeveloped and,: accordm
to Edison experts, they are among the largest remaining soutces of
fuel on the North American continent.
The project has many points of interest, not the least important
being the strong opposition from the two gas companies, who
see themselves threatened with the loss of their biggest customer,
Southern California Edison. Outside of California, the most in-
triguing facet of the situation is its hands-across-the-border aspect.
As the plans have been drawn up, two relatively short pipelines
would be built in the United States, both by the Tennessee Gas
Transmission Company, one of the largest operators of pipelines
in America. The first would run from the King Ranch gas fields
to the Mexican border at Reynosa, the other from the Mexican
border at Mexicali to the Edison electric plants in the Los Angeles
area. But the largest section of pipeline, 1,200 miles long, joining
Reynosa and Mexicali, would be constructed by Petroleos Mexi-
canos (Pemex), the Mexican government's oil and gas monopoly,
which also owns the fields from which the Mexican gas would be
drawn. Pemex plans to raise $165 million, the estimated cost of the
construction, from the sale of bonds which would be retired out of
gas revenues front Edison over a twenty-year period. American
investors are expected to be large buyers of the bonds.
Mexican development would be assisted in two important ways.
First, a market would be opened up for gas?and the eventual
demand might exceed by many times the original 75 million cubic
feet a day which Edison would contract to buy. Secondly, Mexican
communities along the r,200 miles of the pipeline would be entitled
to draw on the supply, so that the economy of a wide area of the
northern part of the country would benefit In the United States
there is controversy over the project and an early decision is not
to be expected, but in Mexico the advantage of the proposed joint
enterprise must seem incontrovertible.
Gobbling It Up
EVEN the Thanksgiving turkey has now become a " conveni-
ence " food. Last week housewives who wanted to save
themselves the trouble of peeling chestnuts and their husbands
the trouble of dissecting joints could serve a bird which had been
stuffed and boned before it was frozen and could be carved like
a loaf of bread. It may have tasted like one too and it was
certainly more expensive than the traditional variety. For turkey
prices were down by about 25 per cent this year. Farmers are
complaining that they are actually losing money on their turkeys,
even though the cost of feed is also down, and are considering
whether they should accept government regulation as a remedy.
Prices will go down still further, but farmers may do better
even so, if the giant turkeys now being grown experimentally
become general. These successors to the postwar innovation,
double-breasted turkeys small enough for any oven, are already
tipping the scales at 50 pounds each, enough to feed 75 Thanks-
givers?and too-pound turkeys are being predicted. Such mon-
strosities are said to be less costly to produce, although "the
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bigger the bird, the fewer its eggs," and cheaper for consumer,
particularly for the restaurants and food processors who buy abort
one-third of all the turkeys sold. Large birds have more meat ii
proportion to bone than do small ones and it is easier to cut
them up, whether for blue plate specials or frozen turkey dinners.
Hamming It Up
AM$ were also being blown up into larger sizes?or less solid
ones. But against this consumers have revolted successfully,
it seeing; with the help of a new Administration anxious to redeem
its 'election pledge that their interests would be protected. The
story begins about thirty years ago when meat packers discovered
--how to speed up and cheapen -the old 'slow method of preserving
ham?soaking it in brine and then smoking it?by injecting a
pickling solution into the meat. This increases its weight and
in 1950 the Department of Agriculture ruled that uncooked smoked
meat subject to federal inspection?that is, entering into interstate
commerce?must not weigh more when sold than it did before
it was cured, thus keeping the new product off the market. Last
December the retiring Republican Secretary of Agriculture quietly
amended this order to allow an increase of up to to per cent in
weight This was done at the request of the big meat packers
who claimed that small firms, which do not sell outside their own
state and are therefore not bound by federal regulation, were profit-
ing unfairly from being able to use the cheap process.
As a result the market was flooded with moist, mild-tasting hams
and the Department of Agriculture was flooded with protests. The
new Democratic Secretary called a series of hearings at which
the meat packers argued that consumers preferred moist hams and
that they were not paying for water since lower prices allowed
for this change in quality. Consumers denied that they liked the
hams or were prepared to buy water instead of meat ; in addition
they complained that the new product did not keep well. In
the middle of last month the original order was reinstated but to
comfort the large packers, who are fighting the reinstatement in
the courts, the Secretary of Agriculture may ask Congress to apply
it to the small intra-state firms as well.
SHORTER NOTES
It is now taken for granted that Representative McCormack of
Massachusetts will succeed Mr Rayburn, who died last month, as
Speaker of the House. But the appointment cannot be voted on
officially until Congress returns to Washington early in January.
Meanwhile, should anything happen to Mr Kennedy and his Vice
President, Mr Johnson, the new President would be Senator
Hayden of Arizona, the 84-year-old President Pro Tem of the
Senate. Ire is fourth in line of soccession, the Speaker being third.
A Bill passed by Congress in almost record time to deal with
last summer's outbreaks of aircraft " hijacking" made it piracy and
a federal offence punishable by death to take over a commercial
airliner by force when in flight. To assault a member of the
crew is now punishable by up to twenty years in prison; if weapons
are used the penalty may be life imprisonment.
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The only bit of President Kennedy's tax programme which has
been adopted this year is a provision authorising the Treasury to
allot numbers to the 6o million people who pay federal taxes.
Only a few million new numbers are involved, since most people
have, and use, their social security numbers. The purpose of
making the practice universal is to enable automatic equipment
to pinpoint those who are not paying their taxes in full.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
AND TRANSITION, 1960-1961
1960-1961 The Brookings Lectures
Beginning December 1, 19b1), the Eirppkings institution will present a series
of eight lectured on the campaigns and election of I960 and their consequences and
implications. Speakers will review significant developments and note important insti-
tutional changes that have resulted or are likely to result.
In the midst of the complex series of Fvents that occur in times of political
change it is difficult "to see the forest for the trees." Yet waiting for the historian\
long perspective linty bring clarity too late al at the cost of oversimplification. In
any event. ,:ontenipin at y tudgmerw, are inesoppable. A careful analysis of significant
dc7velopment-. hy experts can add materially to general understanding. With this pur-
pose in mind the folliming lectures %kill be Presented.
Oceentber I. 1960 the Proidetnial Nominalion.s.
PALL I-. DAVILII, Professor of Political Science,
University of Virginia
Decembec 1960 - A/thy Media Actiritio and Influence
IIARI s A. IE TitiThVioN. Senior Stall, Social Sciences
RAND_Corporation
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WILLIAM II. LAWRENCE, National Correspondent.
Nett' York Thnes
1961 -I lie Lth ,1 broad
IN 51. IimIHOWER, State Department Correspondent,
Aa Wled Press
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i?e announced
March . 1961
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the Brookings Institution
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