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CONFIDENTIAL
SU - 8th Draft
1/20/71
- 21 -
This follows a simple basic principle: that the activities of
government should be organized around its major purposes, and
that the programs related to those purposes should be brought
together.
With these four departments, when we have a problem we will
know where to go -- and the department will have the authority and the
resources to do something about it.
Over the years we have added departments and created agencies,
each to serve a new constituency or to handle a particular task -- and
these have grown and multiplied in what has become a hopeless confusion
of form and function.
Yet as any organization grows and takes on new functions, and as
the circumstances it deals with change, it too has to change in order to
deal with those new circumstances.
Government is no exception.
Change is hard. And a change so sweeping as this requires many
others to change too -- not least the Congress itself, because its com-
mittees and the departments have developed together But without change
there can be no progress. And for each of us the question must be, not
"Will change cause me inconvenience? 11 but "Will change bring the country
progress?"
CONFIDENTIAL
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