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THE
ASCHIVES SERVICE* RECORDS AMD
Executive Services
All attempts to simplify the Executive Branch, and to improve the
organization and management of its several Departments, must depend on
the solution of one particular problem -- the provision of an adequate
organization through which the President may discharge his responsibilities.
As Chief Executive of the United States, the President must rely
primarily on the heads of Departments and major agencies for the
efficient conduct of the Government's business. In carrying out their
responsibilities, the Cabinet officers and administrators correspond to
the executive vice presidents of a business concern, each in charge of
some major purpose activity.
The President, however, must coordinate their work. He must deter-
mine broad policies in a score of directions. And he must see that
their standards of administration and organization are kept at a high
level of efficiency, so that the policies determined by law may be executed
in the most economical manner possible.
Since it is obvinusly impossible for the President -- or the execu-
tive of any large organization, public or private -- to discharge these
executive responsibilities single-handed, the whole problem of improving
the organization and management of the government turns on the provision
of adequate executive services for the President.
To strengthen the staff services of the President, to relieve the
President of the need for handling problems of administrative detail,
and to reduce the number of independent agencies in the Government, the
Commission proposes (1) certain changes in the Executive Office of the
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