Correspondence Between Stephen J. Spingarn and Donald Dawson with Attachments
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MR. DAWSON
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MAY 31 1952
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THE WHITE HOUSE
JUN 18 1949
WASHINGTON
DONALD S, DAWSON
June 17, 1949
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. DAWSON:
Subject: Proposal for Appointment of Advisory Committee to Examine
Federal Loyalty Program and Recommend any Needed Changes
to the President.
With your memorandum to me of June 15, you enclosed an unaddressed
memorandum of May 24, 1949, on this subject, entitled "Suggestions for
Further Improvement of the Loyalty Order".
I agree with the principal thesis of the May 24 memorandum. It
would be desirable to set up an advisory committee or commission of dis-
tinguished private citizens to examine the Federal loyalty program and re-
commend to the President any changes which they deem desirable.
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In a memorandum to Mr. Clifford, of May 5, 1949, I expressed my
views on this matter in connection with a letter concerning the loyalty
program dated April 28, 1949, which Morris Ernst sent to Mr. Connelly
and which was referred to me by Mr. Clifford for comment.
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In my May 5 memorandum to Mr. Clifford I said:
In view of the virtual completion of the incumbent phase of the
program, it seems to be an appropriate time to take a searching look at the
loyalty program and determine what its future shape should be, insofar as
new employees are concerned, (or old ones with respect to whom new charges
may be made.)
"I definitely favor the appointment by the President of a committee
of distinguished citizens, whose views on the subject might be expected
to command respect, to examine the whole program both under the Executive
Order and in the sensitive agencies, and make recommendations to the
President as to what, if any, changes should be made.
"I have perhaps some slight bias in favor of the leyalty program
because I was an alternate on the President's Temporary Commission on
Employee Loyalty two years ago, and a member of the Working Committee of
that Commission whose recommendations resulted in the creation of the program.
It has seemed to me a middle-of-the-road solution of a most difficult
problem on which there were widely divergent views - a reasonably judicious
compromise in the never-ending struggle between freedom and security.
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