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This file contains: Mailing label for George Meader. Handwritten comment "Transition?" beneath label. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D. Section 8 tab divider for "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D. "Study of the Presidency: A Preliminary Outline of Problems and Issues" by Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. Section 8 of "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr.36 pgs. [Report], 5/1/1968 Section 9 tab divider for "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D. Copy of letter from Rose Mary Woods to Congressman George Meader RE: Enclosed transition materials. 1 pg. [Letter], 11/18/1968 Handwritten letter from George Meader to Rose Mary Woods RE: Request that enclosed materials be given consideration. 1 pg. [Letter], 11/13/1968 Letter from George Meader to RN RE: Enclosed Telford document "A Suggested Patronage Program for the Incoming Republican Administration." 3 pgs. [Letter], 11/13/1968 "A Suggested Patronage Program for the Incoming Republican Administration" by Fred Telford. Section 9 of "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 44 pgs. [Report], 1/12/1953 List of New York Positions. From Section 9 of "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr.11 pgs. [Report], 11/22/1968 Cover of the Brookings Publications Checklist of July 1968. 1 pg. [Other Document], 7/1/1968

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Richard Nixon Presidential Library White House Special Files Collection Folder List Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 20 5 N.D. Other Document Mailing label for George Meader. Handwritten comment "Transition?" beneath label. 1 pg. 20 5 N.D. Other Document Section 8 tab divider for "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 1 pg. 20 5 05/01/1968 Report "Study of the Presidency: A Preliminary Outline of Problems and Issues" by Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. Section 8 of "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr.36 pgs. 20 5 N.D. Other Document Section 9 tab divider for "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 1 pg. 20 5 11/18/1968 Letter Copy of letter from Rose Mary Woods to Congressman George Meader RE: Enclosed transition materials. 1 pg. 20 5 11/13/1968 Letter Handwritten letter from George Meader to Rose Mary Woods RE: Request that enclosed materials be given consideration. 1 pg. Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Page 1 of 2 Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 20 5 11/13/1968 Letter Letter from George Meader to RN RE: Enclosed Telford document "A Suggested Patronage Program for the Incoming Republican Administration." 3 pgs. 20 5 01/12/1953 Report "A Suggested Patronage Program for the Incoming Republican Administration" by Fred Telford. Section 9 of "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 44 pgs. 20 5 11/22/1968 Report List of New York Positions. From Section 9 of "1968-1969 Presidential Transaction" by Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr. 11 pgs. 20 5 07/01/1968 Other Document Cover of the Brookings Publications Checklist of July 1968. 1 pg. Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Page 2 of 2 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRES GEORGE MEADER 3360 TENNYSON STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20015 Transition? CCHRH: **ex: STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY May, 1968 A Preliminary Outline of Problems and Issues Caveat Even to take up the idea of improving the Office of the President raises the question: Is there such a thing as an "Office of the President" apart from the President who occupies it? Is there "a right way" to be President? A study of the Presidency should recognize that the answer may be "no" and in any case will be contested. Nonetheless, as its minimum assignment, such a study could and should a) show what has been happening -- throughout 180 and especially the last 36 years -- to the concept and functioning of that Office; b) discuss alternative approaches to the key issues today (e.g. the war power, coordina- tion of domestic programs); c) sum up certain lessons of administrative effectiveness, applicable at any level; and d) end up by displaying before future Presidents and the nation the choices available and the consequences of choosing. Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. 2 I. SOME ISSUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE AS CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR A. The key dilemma: A singular President and a Plural Executive Branch Article II Section I begins "The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." This one man, with one body and one brain, is thus in the eyes of the Constitution, alone responsible for carrying out tens of thousands of public statutes and for directing the work of 6 million employees. Both statutes and employees are increas- ing yearly. Early or late in the study, two questions must be faced: 1. Is there any limit at all on the number of statutes, programs and employees which a President can direct with enough effectiveness to make elections meaning- ful? 2. Should the Presidency be multiple? The answer to both questions is probably "no" but this then forces examination of all the modes of a President's Administrator Role. As preliminary research: Graph the number of public laws in effect at the start of each President's term, beginning in 1789; 3 -- Graph the number of civil and military employees in the same manner; -- Graph the federal budget likewise; B. With respect to some of the Statutes: The laws assign specific duties to the President. 1. How many are there of these specific assignments? Make a catalogue. 2. How many have been delegated and to whom? 3. How many are still undelegated? 4. Of the undelegated assignments, how many others could or should be delegated? C. For All of the Statutes: There is the President's obligation to "Take Care That the Laws be faithfully executed. 1. To do this the President needs informa- tion on how programs are being adminis- tered, especially advance information on problems being encountered. a. From recent history, what are some notable examples of this need? b. What information mechanisms for producing advance information been tried? Which have the greatest promise of effectiveness? 4 C. Is the President used too often as Ombudsman for the Congress, Governors, Mayors and the rest? What is the irreducible minimum for this role? 2. An unavoidable part of the "Take Care" Role is the President's ultimate obligation to be Chief Coordinator in program administration. With special reference to the domestic sphere: a. Describe this obligation, with examples. b. What can be learned, useful to domestic program coordination, from the accomplishments in forging a national security community over the past quarter century? What essential differences? C. Evaluate (linked with "b" above) the program coordination role of: -- Committees (e.g. Cabinet, NSC, EOC and on down to regional and local levels e.g. Federal Executive Boards). -- Executive Office troubleshooting task forces (e.g. on Neighborhood Centers). 5 -- The Bureau of the Budget, OST, OEP. ---- A new unit in the Executive Office. -- Special White House Assistants and Staffs (Califano, Bundy/Rostow & Companies). -- Interagency information exchanges (the Vance-Ball Agreement, CHECKPOINT procedures). -- Special Agency Centers (NMCC, Operations Centers, Chart Rooms, Situation Room). -- Interchange of agency personnel (e.g. State/Defense/JCS). -- The Metropolitan Expediter experiment. -- The reforms proposed in the Inter- governmental Relations Act. -- Consolidated Departmental regional boundaries and offices. -- Regional Presidential coordinators. -- Training programs for the bureaucracy (Executive Seminar Centers, Career Executive Institute, War Colleges). d. Another way of looking at it: could the problem of federal program coordination be lessened by delegating the operation of certain federal programs out of the federal bureaucracy to geographically 6 based units at other levels of our federal system: e.g.: Neighborhood Corporations, Cities, Multi-County Units, Regional Governmental Organiza- tions, States? Pros and cons of this approach. D. For Statutes yet to come: a President may need new flexibility. 1. To vary tax rates within a given range: give the arguments pro and con. 2. To vary interest rates within a given range: give the arguments pro and con. 3. To transfer funds among appropriation titles or programs: give the arguments pro and con. E. The President's Control: Is the Executive Branch being insulated from him? The Congress frequently attempts to drive wedges between the President and his subordinates, vesting statutory power in the hands of independent bodies or of long-term officers. Does the nation benefit or suffer from this? 1. Review this problem with respect to Departments and Agencies (e.g. the REA issue of 1959, the Small Business Administration, terms of office for FBI, JCS). 7 2. Review this problem with respect to the Regulatory Commissions: do they improperly circumscribe the President's ability to meet his responsibilities? 8 II. SOME ISSUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF Article II, Section 2: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;" The dilemma:* The same singular President, one body and one brain, also responsible for the actions of 3-1/2 million persons in the Armed Forces -- in their use of bayonets or megatons -- with shorter and shorter warning times and with the constant danger of small, far-off crises escalating into major confrontations. The basic question: With new gadgetry making Washington-to-front-line communications easier and easier, what principles of delegation should a President follow? As preliminary research: -- Discuss and if possible graph or otherwise portray the stages through which Presidential military communica- tions have come: from the packet of letters on board a sailing ship through telegraph and telephone to today's facilities. -- Forecast them ten years ahead. -- Graph the size of the Armed Forces beginning in 1789. *For a discussion of the War Power in the sense of making and keeping commitments, see Section III. 9 -- Graph the size of the Armed Forces Budget beginning in 1789. A. Strategic Crises 1. What are the best estimates as to the warning time Presidents in the near future will have with respect to strategic threats? 2. What do present and future strategic weapons developments portend for the variety of Presidential options, the length of time he may have to choose and his ability to delay, redirect or recall weapons once chosen? 3. What new facilities and procedures, if any, need to be initiated to equip a President to survive and to command in a strategic crisis? B. Tactical Crises 1. What are the factors which tend to force Presidents to play a personal hand in tactical national security crises? (There are at least ten.) Give examples from recent history. 10 2. What are the risks a President runs who feels impelled to play such a personal hand? 3. What principles should govern the balance to be struck? 4. What aids and helps should be developed or enlarged for the President to make this balance more tolerable? 11 III. SOME ISSUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE AS CHIEF DIPLOMAT Article II, Section 2: "He shall have the power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, providing two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Article II, Section 3: " he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers;" "The Congress shall have Power To declare War," " To make rules for the Government and Regulations of the land and naval Forces. " The dilemma: Chairman Fulbright: "You think it is outmoded to declare war?" Under Secretary Katzenbach: "In this kind of context I think the expression of declaring a war is one that has become out- moded in the international arena." (S Res. 151 Hearings, August, 1967, page 81) Chairman Fulbright: "Would the President, if there were no [Tonkin] resolution, be with or without constitutional authority to send U.S. soldiers to South Vietnam in the numbers that are there today?" Under Secretary Katzenbach: "It would be my view, as I indi- cated, Mr. Chairman, that he does have that authority. I think there would be others both inside and outside of the Government who would not agree with that yes, I think it includes the authority to bomb North Vietnam.' (S Res. 151 Hearings, August, 1967, page 141). 12 A. The President's Power to Make and Keep Commitments. 1. The Secretary of State should be asked to prepare a list of all the nations with which we have dip- lomatic relations and for each one set forth what it (not we) believes are either formal (e.g. NATO) or informal (e.g. Israel) U.S. commitments to it which could involve the use of US armed forces. 2. What are the prospects over the next eight years that under any of these believed commitments U.S. armed forces help will be requested? 3. What are the prospects over the next eight years that any of these requests could be met by peace- keeping forces other than of the U.S. (e.g. UN, Regional?) 4. Should the new President endorse and abide by S. Res. 187?* Give a full analysis of the arguments pro and con. If not, what principles should guide future Presidents' relationships with Congress with regard to the use of U.S. Armed Forces in meeting foreign requests for assistance? *Text appended 13 B. The President as Negotiator 1. Graph, in terms of hours if possible, the international bilateral and multilateral conferences (in the U.S. or abroad) in which the President has personally participated as a substantive negotiator, from President Roosevelt through President Johnson. What trend here does the Secretary of State forecast for the future? 2. Analyze the procedures now used in preparing for, in "advancing" and in conducting every aspect of a Presi- dential conference at home or abroad with another Head of Government with a view to recommending steps to save Presidential time and energy without degrading his ability to conduct negotiations effectively. C. The President as Manager of the National Security Community 1. Review the arrangements in the national security community for keeping the President informed -- the respective roles of the White House Staff, the Situation Room, the Depart- mental Command/Operations Centers. Examine the possibilities (and pros and cons) of increased automation, faster data storage and retrieval, improved communications (especially to Ambassadors), secure conference television. 14 2. How effectively are Ambassadors acting as Presidential agents in knitting together the Country Teams abroad? What further improvements if any are needed here in the interests of the Presidency? 3. Make an analytic comparison of the national security policy machinery used by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson in such a way that present options and choices for the new President are clearly set forth. 4. Include in the above a critical review of the current and future abilities and procedures in the national security community to anticipate crises in foreign affairs and to form contingency plans both interdepartmental and intergovernmental. 15 IV. ISSUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE AS CHIEF RECOMMENDER Article II, Section 3 "He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;" A. The Increasing Role 1. Graph (in terms of numbers of Messages, or perhaps of words) the growth of formal proposals Presidents have made to Congress from Washington's term on. 2. Describe the changes in technique: from the written note to the evening, televised address to a Joint Session. 3. Compare comments on this practice by Presidents, Senators and Congressmen and others. The future: more of same undiminished or even increasing? B. Information for Policy Formulation 1. Make a thorough analysis of OEO's Information Center function -- what it has done already (County-by-County Poverty Indicators, a catalogue of assistance programs, County-by-County Federal expenditure analysis), and what it foresees being able to do in the future 16 (construction of models, testing of alternative hypotheses). 2. Do the same for OEP's PARM system and the facilities this represents. 3. Review the economic information function of the Council of Economic Advisers-- what it can contribute. 4. Distill from these analyses and any other systems being inaugurated in progressive Departments, alternative proposals for constructing a Presi- dential information system for policy formulation (fitting same hand-in-glove with the information systems for pro- gram coordination-- being discussed under Section 1-B above). C. Unresponsible Advice for Policy Formulation 1. Total (in numbers) the Citizens Commissions and Councils (those made public and those not made public) advisory to the Presi- dent from Roosevelt's time on. 2. Describe and show the plusses and minuses for the President of the various roles Advisory Commissions play vis-a-vis the Presidency (e.g. researchers, balloon- floaters, crises-calmers, stallers, wakers-up of somnolent Departments, policy 17 reviewers and innovative proposers, lobbiers-in-Congress, talent pools, keep-Congress-happy groups, patronage outlets, even needlers of the Presi- dent himself, etc) and name an example or two of each of these types. 3. Name the whole total in being as of January 1, 1968 which were advisory to the President. Analyze the problems of overlap, vague terms of reference, poor attendance. 4. Analyze the rocky road every President must in the end travel from unresponsible to responsible advice -- from the blue-sky proposals of Commissions to feasible legislative recommendations. 5. From all the above, what guiddines can be proposed for the President's use of public advisory groups --- perhaps to make that final stretch less rocky for him? 6. Explore the idea of a common secretariat and common facilities for public advisory groups to the President. D. Responsible Advice for Policy Formulation 1. How open are the channels between the President and the senior career 18 bureaucracy? How open should they be? -- White House social receptions from time to time? -- Should the President visit more Federal field installations? -- Should the President oftener visit the Departments for closed-door Q and A sessions with assembled career officers? -- Should the President, should the White House Staff, directly seek the advice of career officers? Analyze the benefits and risks in view of the pressures on the President from program-loyal bureaucracies. -- What other ways, if any, to bring the President closer to his career helpers? 19 2. The role of Cabinet Members and the other political executives -- the razor-edges they walk: a. Between the bureaucracies and the President; b. Between Congress and its Committees and the President; C. Between outside pressure groups and the President. d. What additional measures, if any, are needed to ensure that the President gets Cabinet Members' unvarnished advice? 3. The Bureau of the Budget features its Legislative and Budget Reviews as machinery for policy formulation: Any improvements possible? 20 4. The role of Committees: a. Cabinet Committees: Make an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses. e.g. the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments probably has been quite effective; the Economic Opportunity Council probably has not. What makes for success-- in terms of helping the President? How can the sense of Presidential or inter- departmental perspective come to flower on the part of senior career and Sub-Cabinet/Cabinet officers? b. The Cabinet as a collective body. How have different Presidents used it? Accomplishments and limitations; lessons earned from the Eisenhower experience; role of a Cabinet Sec- retariat; options for a new President. C. Committee management: how can good techniques help a President? What about a common secretariat located in or near the White House for the senior- most Cabinet Committees? What could its role be in policing the adequacy of distribution of papers, flagging 21 the key decisions and knottiest problems for the President, supplying common facilities? 5. The role of the Executive Office: It's in six pieces (BOB, CEA, OEP, NSC, OST, OEO) with more continually proposed. Does it make sense to have such a subdivided staff, fractioned by statute, in the Executive Office of the President? Do the President's problems fit into such packages? Is some con- solidation in order in the President's own environs? E. Other Possible Issues Surrounding the President's Policy-Formulating Relationship with Congress 1. Evaluate the consultative arrangements - at White House and at Cabinet level. 2. Review the doctrine of Executive Privilege. 22 V. ISSUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE AS CHIEF PARTISAN The dilemma is between the President who knows that both foreign and domestic issues are complicated, full of gray areas, with key supporters for his positions on both sides of the political aisles vs the same Presi- dent who must rise before his partisans every 2 or 4 years and state the issues as being the "good guys against the bad guys". This dilemma is probably not ameliorable. A. The Decline of Patronage Analze the effect of the decreasing number of non-merit positions (e.g. IRS, Customs, Post Office) on the President's ability to use patronage as a lever of persuasion and influence. B. The President's Relationships to the Party - What are the Proprieties? 1. In Fund-raising? 2. For his personal role in campaigning? 3. In building the party for the future? 23 VI. ISSUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE AS CHIEF OF STATE A. Answering his mail 1. Graph the numerical increase in mail to the President since 1932. 2. Graph the numerical increase in gifts sent in to the President since 1932. 3. Graph the increase in private requests for Presidential statements and messages since 1932. 4. After considering both precedent and prognosis, what would be some useful guidelines for the future in what has been called the Pastoral Role of the President? B. Communicating with the American Public The country looks to the President to provide unifying leadership particularly amid the disorder and dissension of these times. What new or refurbished modes of communication should the President consider? -- "walks in the ghetto" a la Lindsay -- some kind of local Presidential presence,e.g. at regional level -- Fireside chats a la Roosevelt. -- Giving the thousands of White House tourists more information about the Presidency What others? 24 VII. OTHER AREAS OF INQUIRY A. Assistance from the Vice President At least in the public mind, the question almost always arises: "What can the Vice President do to help with the burden on the President?" Being fully aware of the extreme sensitivity of President-Vice President relationships, a proper study could and should discuss the possibilities and the limits of Vice Presidential assist- ance in the form of: 1. Trips and Conferences abroad 2. The "Staff officer" function on specific problems (e.g. as Vice President Johnson did on the supersonic transport.) 3. Chairmanship of Cabinet committees 4. Liaison with special groups (e.g. Vice President Humphrey with Mayors) 5. Political duties. B. Structure of the White House Staff Here particularly the caveat at the beginning of this outline comes into play: there is no "right" structure. Yet since the Brownlow-Merriam Report of 1937, there is experience with various forms. What light does this experience shed on the alternatives open to a new President? 1. A staff of specialists or generalists? 25 2. A structure of hierarchy or equality? 3. The need for internal communication devices. 4. Cooperation with special staffs (e.g. national security) and with coordinating units in the Executive Office. 5. Idea of a Conference Secretary and what he could do (e.g. decision records, rapid, limited distribution systems), 6. Desirable and undesirable methods of liaison and quick communication between White House Staff and key parts of the bureaucracy. 7. The extension of White House staff: secre- tariats, duty centers in the Departments. C. The Presidential Role with the Press 1. What are the proprieties if any? New rules needed? The choices facing each President. D. Presidential Facilities The White House Residence was rebuilt 18 years ago. But the White House office facilities, and some of the procedures in it are not far removed from horse-and-buggy 'days: 26 1. The Chief Physical Needs a. Space for offices b. Conference facilities; a Cabinet Room with visual display capability C. An auditorium d. Reception facilities e. Ceremonial facilities f. Press facilities 2. Communications Procedures a. Messengers getting in and out of cars and driving them around town; electronics surely have moved us beyond this. b. Explore a tube delivery system; secure multiple LDX; secure conference television E. Should there be more of a Role for Ex-Presidents? 1. In the Congress or in the Executive Branch? 2. Constitutional or statutory? -- or stick with informal arrangements? Calendar No. 781 90TH CONGRESS 1sT SESSION S. RES. 187 [Report No. 797] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 20, 1967 Mr. FULBRIGHT, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the fol- lowing resolution; which was ordered to be placed on the calendar RESOLUTION Whereas the executive and legislative branches of the United States Government have joint responsibility and authority to formulate the foreign policy of the United States; and Whereas the authority to initiate war is vested in Congress by the Constitution: Now, therefore, be it 1 Resolved, That a commitment for purposes of this reso- 2 lution means the use of, or promise to a foreign state or 3 people to use, the Armed Forces of the United States 4 either immediately or upon the happening of certain events, 5 and 6 That it is the sense of the Senate that, under any cir- 7 cumstances which may arise in the future pertaining to 8 situations in which the United States is not already involved, V 2 1 the commitment of the Armed Forces of the United States 2 to hostilities on foreign territory for any purpose other than 3 to repel an attack on the United States or to protect United 4 States citizens or property properly will result from a de- 5 cision made in accordance with constitutional processes, 6 which, in addition to appropriate executive action, require 7 affirmative action by Congress specifically intended to give 8 rise to such commitment. The Secretariat Function in the White House In Jackson's time it was like this: "The gineral says he likes things simple as a mouse trap .... There is enuff of us to do all that's wanted. Every day, jest after breakfast, the (President) lights his pipe, and begins to think pretty hard. I and Major Donaldson begin to open letters for him; and there is more than three bushels every day, and all the while coming. We don't git through more than a bushel a day; and never trouble long ones, unless they come from Mr. Van Buren, or Mr. Kindle, [Amos Kendall] or some other of our great folks. Then we sort 'em out jest like Zekil Bigelow does the mackerel at his packin' yard We only make three sorts and keep three big baskets, one marked 'not red', another 'red, and worth nothin'' and another 'red, and to be answered'. And then all the (President) has to do is to say, 'Major, I reckon we best say so and so to that,' and I say 'Jest so', or not, jest as the notion takes me -- and then we go at it. "We keep all the Secretaries and the Vice President, and some District Attorneys, and a good many of our folks, and Amos Kindle moving about; and they tell us jest how the cat jumps. "As I said afore, if it warnt for Congress meetin' once a year, we'd put the government in a onehorse wagon, and go jest where we liked. Today the problem is somewhat tougher. In particular, how can the President be sure that each decision he makes is: First of all: remembered -- written down and kept track of? Second: communicated -- to the tiny or broad circle of men who need to know about it to act? Third: followed up in the future days or weeks? Fourth: recalled -- when a new, related decision is pending? *Extract from letter from Major Jack Downing, dated August 17, 1833 (Major Downing was an assistant to President Andrew Jackson) 2 here are three ways. A. He can try to do these things himself: personally write down, personally transmit, personally follow up, personally remember. This puts an entirely needless burden on the President. B. He can ask each White House or Executive Office or Cabinet Officer to whom he talks on a given matter to do these four tasks on each resulting decision. This might work, but then there would be perhaps fifty separate and individual centers of record, transmittal, follow- up and recall. A few might perform well, but most of them would let their specialized action tasks take priority over the more prosaic staff function. Moreover there would be no one place where the whole is pulled together. C. The President can designate a Secretariat Officer -- who is to be czar of nothing but a communicator to all. He can mandate to this officer the primary task of being Recorder, Transmitter, Reminder and Memory. It is proposed that in the new White House, such an officer be designated, perhaps be called the Conference Secretary, and have the following functions, allowing for any exceptions or special emphases the President would wish to invoke: 1. Record each Presidential decision touching official business. The modes of doing this would vary: a) sitting in on Presidential conferences; b) contacting key White House or Cabinet Officers immediate- ly after a Presidential conference, to ascertain the 3 substance of decisions reached; c) attending Cabinet and NSC meetings. The records of decisions could be cross-filed by Depart- ment, by subject, by White House Officer concerned. At the end of each day or week or month, the President could be presented with a capsule summary, if he wished, to review. As the weeks, months, and years went by, this record collection would be an absolutely invaluable asset to the President himself and his senior staff. Result: the President will never be plagued with the question: "Did anybody remember what I said on that subject?" 2. Transmit each decision or commitment to just those who have to know of it in order to act on it. Recipients of this service would typically be: the appropriate Officers on the White House Staff, in the Executive Office, in the Departments, often the Vice President. Telegraphic or remote Xerox facilities could be used for speed as needed; the oral mode would be eschewed. Each recipient would know who the other recipients were; doubtful or highly sensitive instances would be checked with the President if necessary. Result: The President and his Cabinet or White House action officers could concentrate on the substance of action, and not be plagued with the question: "Did we inform the right people of our decision?" 4 3. The Conference Secretary would ensure that each decision or commitment was followed up at the appropriate time, using a proper measure of judgment as to what that time would be: within hours, days or weeks. He need not be the personal "needler" -- the White House staff or the Executive Office might be doing the actual "riding herd" but he would make sure, for himself and the President, that the reminding continued until the commitment was fulfilled. If the President wished, the Conference Secretary would periodically prepare a status report of the outstanding decisions which needed especially thorough follow-up - so the President or senior White House Staff could glance down the list Result: The President need not fear that the decisions he makes will evaporate in execution. 4. Since the Conference Secretary could be expected to know when related decisions are pending, he would automatically supply to the President and White House Staff the records of earlier decisions, as points of reference. 5. The Conference Secretary, with the President's permission, could and ought to serve the senior White House Staff Officers in the same four-fold staff capacity in which he would help the President. Their decisions are White House decisions, and thereby would have some of the force of the Presidency; they deserve the same `services. The Conference Secretary would. be particularly 5 valuable to his White House staff colleagues in that he would guarantee to them that however staccato they are working, they would be automatically keyed into any Presidential decisions which affect them. 6. The Conference Secretary can and should be expected to ensure that preparations for any Presidential or senior White House conference are taken care of: that the list of attendees is known (and OK'd) by the Convenor of the meeting, that papers (if any) are in the hands of the attendees in advance; that conference facilities have been arranged for. In addition to these central staff functions, the Conference Secretary is the most logical officer to ask to perform three other basic secretariat tasks: 7. Preparing for Cabinet meetings. This would bring the advantage of not having a separate Cabinet Secretariat sitting by itself as in the White House of 1953-61, but tying this service directly into all the other staff functions to which it is closely related. This relation- ship would strengthen the President's assurance that the right matters were being brought into Cabinet at the right time, and not extraneous issues dredged up for the occasion. Naturally the Conference Secretary's office would render its services to Cabinet Committees, if any were established to make special reports. (President Eisenhower set up five 6 in 1954.) If the President wished, it could extend these conference services also to Presidential Task Forces of private citizens. (President Johnson was using perhaps two dozen of these at once.) The advantage here is not only one of economy in staff (one secretariat instead of dozens of outlying ones) but in the intelligence system which is thereby created for the President and his senior White House officers: they will know what is going on in many policy forums 8. Riding herd on an Advance Information System for the President. The scarcest commodity around the White House is information from the Executive Branch about problems which are "around the corner". On accomplishments there is a glut; on the crises which finally confront the President there is preoccupation. But the President needs a warning system: to shake out from the reluctant Departments the first indications of crises before they occur, to be told of smoke before it becomes fire. President Eisenhower initiated such a system which, in varying forms, has continued. From 1956-61 it was daily, was called "Staff Notes" and the Departmental raw material was edited by an officer in the White House. Vice President Nixon received a daily copy. In 1961 President Kennedy changed it to a weekly (Tuesdays) collection of two-page memoranda, unedited. President Johnson has similar systems, including one wholly for legislative developments. 7 The new President needs an Advance Information System (which is for information only, never for action items) but it will require energetic White House reminding to traditionally uncooperative Departments. 9. Reviewing memoranda and correspondence submitted for Presidential (and possibly senior White House Staff) action. It is of course a matter of Presidential style whether he would wish a central point of secretariat review of action proposals, in addition to the substantive review naturally given to them by White House staff officers. General Goodpaster performed this function for President Eisenhower, asking of each action paper: Is it necessary? Is it responsive? Is it ready for the President's action? Is it timely? Is it coordinated? How will it be followed up? If this review function is desired, the Conference Secre- tary's office could provide it. The Conference Secretary would be a facilitative, not a substantive staff officer. He would have to personify those original White House virtues so well described in 1936: 8 " would have no power to make decisions or issue instructions in [his] own right would not be interposed between the President and the heads of his Departments would not be assistant President in any sense would remain in the background, issue no orders, make no decisions, emit no public statements should be possessed of a high competence, great physical vigor and a passion for anonymity. " The Conference Secretary would have no "empire". With a senior assistant or two (e.g. for Cabinet) his office could be staffed by young men whom the President wanted to bring into government, by White House Fellows, by outstanding young Civil Service interns. This office could be expected to investigate the use of automatic equipment to store, send and retrieve information; in this area the White House has been a laggard among agencies. The Conference Secretariat would be only as modest or as elaborate as the President wished; it would build on the many administrative achievements made on the White House staff since 1953 and it could help the President make his own unique con- tribution to the art of public administration at the apex of government. Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. 9 M - x Transition bcc: Bob Haldeman ma John Ehrlichnen John November 18, 1968 Dear Congressman Meader: Thank you so much for your gracious letter of good wishes. I am sure the material you enclosed will be most helpful to those who are working with Mr. Nixon on the transition, and I am forwarding it to them for their use. With kindest regards, Sincerely, Rose Mary Woods Personal Secretary to the President-Elect The Honorable George Meader 3360 Tennyson Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20015 A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, OKLA. RAY J. MADDEN, IND. CO-CHAIRMAN CO-CHAIRMAN JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. JACK BROOKS, TEX. LEE METCALF, MONT. KEN HECHLER, W. VA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. THOMAS B. CURTIS, MO. CLIFFORD P. CASE, N.J. J. CALEB BOGGS, DEL. Congress of the United States DURWARD G. HALL, MO. JAMES C. CLEVELAND, N.H. ¡EORGE MEADER NICHOLAS A. MASTERS CHIEF COUNSEL JOINT COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH CONSULTANT MELVIN W. SNEED THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS STAFF ASSISTANT (PURSUANT TO S. CON. RES. 32, 90TH CONGRESS) WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510 3360 Tennyson St. N.W. Washington DC. 20015 EM2-6915 EMI 6915 Dear Pose many, nov,13,1968 you Congratulations! I would appreciate your giving the enclosed sufficient study to sex that it is either brought to the attention of Mr. Dixon or referred to some one in his organization who can make we of it Best Wishes! Sincerely, George Meader A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, OKLA. RAY J. MADDEN, IND. CO-CHAIRMAN CO-CHAIRMAN JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. JACK BROOKS, TEX. LEE METCALF, MONT. KEN HECHLER, W. VA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. THOMAS B. CURTIS, MO. CLIFFORD P. CASE, N.J. Congress of the United States DURWARD G. HALL, MO. J. CALEB BOGGS, DEL. JAMES C. CLEVELAND, N.H. GEORGE MEADER NICHOLAS A. MASTERS CHIEF COUNSEL JOINT COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH CONSULTANT MELVIN W. SNEED THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS STAFF ASSISTANT (PURSUANT TO S. CON. RES. 32, 90TH CONGRESS) WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510 November 13, 1968 Hon. Richard M. Nixon, President-Elect, United States of America New York, New York Dear Dick, Like Abraham Lincoln (and George Meader) you lost a few. But you won the big one. Congratulations! Your telegram of November 2, 1968, thanking me for my partici- pation as panelist on "Speak to Nixon-Agnew Programs" was apprecia- ted. In 1952, after Ike won, in my first term, two gentlemen came to see me in my Congressional office. One was Fred Telford, an old civil service buff. The other was Bill Brownrigg, first Civil Service Director of the State of Michigan (formerly Civil Service Director of California). I met Bill when I was Counsel for the Michigan Merit System Association in the late 1930's. They left a document with me which they had prepared-blue- printing the take-over of the executive branch after 20 years of the New Deal and Fair Deal--without violating civil service laws or merit principles. This document and their discussion sufficiently impressed me that I brought it to the attention of Al Cole of Kansas who had been defeated for Congress while he was helping others get elected, and was, at the time, deputy to Mr. Roberts of Kansas, National Committee Chairman. Al told me that he thought the document excellent and that he had given it to Roberts and had urged him to study it. Unfortune ately, some scandal about Roberts' lobbying the Kansas legislature brought a sudden end to his service as National Committee Chairman-- and that was that! Meanwhile, immediately after Ike's election, Art Fleming, Nel- son Rockefeller, and Milton Eisenhower were somehow constituted the President's Reorganization Committee. Each of them had held important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Apparently, they were in charge of the take-over. 2 When your election appeared imminent, I tried to resurrect the 1952 civil service document. I contacted both Brownrigg and Tel- ford and also Ab Hermann at the National Committee. Finally I obtained a copy of a subsequent version of this document from Bill Reed who had received it from Bill Brownrigg, III, in 1953. The Telford document is entitled "A Suggested Patronage Pro- gram for the Incoming Republican Administration." It is dated January 12, 1953. A copy is enclosed. Bill Reed, who was Deputy Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate in the 83rd Congress, also gave me a document dated November 24, 1953, entitled "Federal Personnel Problem,' a copy of which is enclosed. This document is sketchy but confirms many of the criticisms of the Telford document and recounts techniques employed--and some specific examples--to obstruct effective take-over of the bureau- cracy by the Eisenhower Administration. I have re-read the Telford document and it seems sound and as applicable today as it was in 1952. Last week I obtained a copy of "Policy and Supporting Positions" from the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, compiled by the Civil Service Commission pursuant to a request for a list of "excepted positions" by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee. A cursory examination of this document (a re-run of the 1964 Blue Book) satisfies me that if you replaced all of the incumbents in these positions, which are presently replaceable, your administration would be no different in any substantial way from the Johnson and prior administrations, to the extent that the entrenched bureaucracy could influence it. Your first and most crucial job is to achieve control of the bureaucracy--without being successfully attacked for reverting to the "spoils system." You can be sure that the bureaucracy has missed few bets on locking itself in. The task of a meaningful take-over will not be easy. Legislation may be needed. A new "Hoover" Reorganiza- tion Commission may be necessary or extensive use of the reorgani- zation power of the President. All will, of course, be difficult to achieve in view of Democratic control of both Houses of Congress and obviously would require time. More urgent is the requirement to assemble quickly high-powered and reliable skills in the field of civil service, with the capa- city to effectuate change under existing laws and regulations. 3 One good source would be the civil service systems of state and local governments or the personnel departments of private busi- ness. You may be sure you have my best wishes for success in the formidable task you have undertaken. Sincerely, George George Meader 3360 Tennyson St., N. W. Washington, D. C. 20015 Tel. EM 2-6915 Enclosures A SUGGESTED PATRONAGE PROGRAM FOR THE INCOMING REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION Prepared by Fred Telford January 12, 1953 A SUGGESTED PATRONAGE PROGRAM FOR THE INCOMING REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION Prepared by Fred Telford Director of the Bureau of Public Personnel Administration Ednor, Maryland (telephone Fulton 8 - 5707) Explanatory Statement Page 2 A - Patronage Possibilities Page 3 B - The Civil Service Myth. Page 6 C - Patronage Pitfalls Page 9 D - The Suggested Method of Handling Patronage Page 16 E - Listing and Classifying the Job Seekers Page 20 F - Obtaining Needed Information About Positions Page 23 G - Matching Men and Jobs Page 25 H - Making Indefinite, Temporary, and Other Types of Appointments not Giving Permanent Status Page 28 I - Making Permanent Appointments Page 29 J - Revamping the Personnel Machinery of the National Government Page 32 K - Supplemental Observations Page 42 January 12, 1953 2 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT The following statement, entitled "A Suggested Patronage Program for the Incoming Republican Administration, " has been prepared by Fred Telford after consultations with a number of persons active in political matters and in technical personnel operations. All of those consulted are in agreement as to the procedures suggested but the manner of presentation is Mr. Telford's only. For thirty years Mr. Telford has been engaged principally in various types of personnel work and in doing related budget, taxation, and organization work for large and small business and government organizations. He has done administrative, consulting, and technical work for the national govern- ments of the United States and Canada, for a dozen state governments, and for nearly a hundred local governments. He has also aided a number of po- litical organizations; in particular he has aided them in developing and exe- cuting programs designed to make it possible for them to appoint the largest possible number of party adherents to suitable positions without violating the personnel laws and without incurring avoidable public and voter opposi- tion and resentment. 3 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT A - PATRONAGE POSSIBILITIES All told there are now somewhat more than two and a half million civilian positions in the executive branch of the national government. In addition, about half a million positions now labeled and treated as military are really civilian in nature; these should be moved to the civilian category and treated in the same manner as other civilian positions. Something more than two hundred thousand of these positions are not subject to the civil service laws and are usually regarded as in the "patron- age" category. About 170, 000 of these are located in what is called the continental United States. The remainder are located in foreign countries, in Alaska, in Puerto Rico, and in some other "possessions" of the United States. Actually, however, it would be difficult to use approximately half of these positions for patronage purposes; examples are those in the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Tennessee Valley Authority, and several other agencies. For still other positions there are legal prescriptions as to qualifications and firmly established methods of recruiting. Nevertheless at least a hundred thousand of these positions are available for patronage purposes. Somewhat more than half of the two and a half million positions now labeled as civilian are filled by officers and employees having what is called permanent status. These are popularly supposed to be sacrosanct as far 4 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT as patronage is concerned. Such, however, is far from the case. In any given year approximately a quarter of a million officers and employees having permanent status leave their positions, which then have to be filled. In addition, both the classification of these positions and the recruiting for them have been so carelessly done that, if the positions were reclassified in the manner prescribed by law, a large fraction of the present incum- bents would have no legal or moral right to their positions as reclassified. About a million of the two and a half million positions now labeled as civilian are filled by officers and employees who have what is called in- definite status or temporary status. They have been recruited in various ways; a goodly proportion of them are protegees of bureaucrats who, in recent years, have been building up their own personal machines. In any case they are serving at the pleasure of their respective appointing au- thorities, though the Civil Service Commission is trying to get for them what it proposes to call "reserve" status. A large number of these in- definite and temporary employees are very well qualified for the posts they hold but about as many, because of careless and inadequate recruit- ing methods, are not. It would be a technical personnel crime of the first order to give them permanent status. Probably half of them, on the basis of their qualifications - or lack of qualifications - should be displaced. A good many of these, however, are veterans whom it might not be expedient politically to separate from their present positions. It 5 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT seems safe to state, however, that the more quickly three or four hundred thousand, and possibly half a million, of these indefinite and temporary em- ployees are gotten out of the service, the better it will be for the country and the Republican party. If the half million or so positions now labeled as military but which are civilian in nature were moved to the civilian category and treated accord- ingly, just that many positions would become available for the appointment of civilians. The present incumbents, being in the main trained in military science, would be assigned to military duties. Of necessity most of the new incumbents would at the outset have to be given indefinite or temporary appointments; this means that the appointing authorities, while observing meticulously every legal and other restriction, would have a relatively free hand in selecting their appointees. In a word, the incoming Republican administration has at its disposal well over a million appointments and, if it wishes to make effective use of all the legitimate legal devices, well toward two millions. In addition, the labor turnover is so large as to make available additionally at least half a million more appointments each year. 6 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT B - THE CIVIL SERVICE MYTH Civil service systems are a perennial mystery to those who organize and operate political organizations - and particularly to those who under- take to dispense patronage. This applies in state and local governments and reaches its peak in the case of the national government. Almost without exception, as to the national government, the party leaders make one of two major patronage errors. The first is to accept the myth that, as far as the positions included in the civil service system are concerned, they are sacrosanct and therefore cannot be used for patronage purposes. The second is to disregard inconvenient provisions of the civil service laws and to make appointments by the use of methods which are illegal, which outrage public sentiment, which bring the party into disrepute, and which drive sizable segments of the voters into the opposition party. Never in this century have the party organizations used the civil service machin- ery on a large scale to achieve their party ends in a legal and ethical manner through the appointment of large numbers of party followers. The civil service myth is particularly strong and wide spread in the case of the national government where the basis for the commonly held civil service beliefs is weak and sketchy. As a matter of fact, those re- sponsible for the administration of the civil service laws - that is, the Givil Service Commission, the agency personnel units, and the several 7 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT appointing authorities - honor them much more frequently in the breach than in the observance. A few examples show this flagrant disregard of legal requirements and of sound personnel principles. The law properly requires that positions, on the basis of their duties and responsibilities, are to be grouped into homogeneous classes for use in carrying on pay, recruiting, and other personnel operations; the grouping is incomplete and poorly done and the classes as such are seldom used for either pay, re- cruiting, or other purposes. Instead the vain attempt is made to treat each position as an entity and to disregard the class. In some cases, to be sure, the recruiting is for a true class; examples are Railway Mail Clerk and Messenger. Much more frequently, however, such examina- tions as are given (the number is only a fraction of those needed) are in- tended for broad groups of positions only loosely related and the result- ing "registers" are used in hit and miss fashion. In one case, for example, when the operating officers asked that qualified persons be certified for appointment as Naturalization Examiner, they were practically forced to use a "register" resulting from an examination dealing in the main with broad legal problems and containing the names of those who, almost en- tirely, had tried practicing law and who had failed therein. The law re- quires that, with some exceptions, promotions be made only as the result of examinations; yet, since 1883, when the law was enacted, not a score of promotion examinations have ever been held. The law also requires 8 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT that appointments to positions in the departmental service - roughly, though not accurately, those in Washington - be apportioned among the several states according to their population; regularly the Civil Service Commission publishes lists showing this is not being done. Example after example of this kind could be given. In the main those who have to make personnel decisions do much as they please with scant regard for civil service laws and rules; in their own words, they decide each case "on its merits. " Bureaucrats by the dozen use the appointing power to put into office their favorites and protegees and to build up powerful personal machines to be used for their own advantage with slight regard for the administration in office or for the political party in nominal control at the moment. Some have become so strong in their own right that they have defied Presidents, Congressional committees, and party organizations. Though this system has produced, in the main, a distinctly high grade personnel, there have been many large scale failures, particularly in re- cent years and in the newer agencies. But the long established units have not been free from embarrassing personnel happenings; well known examples are the infiltration of subversives into the State Department and other units and the corruption among the Collectors of Internal Revenue. It is clear that the orderly personnel procedures prescribed by law should be sub- stituted for the methods now in use. This would mean not only public 9 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT acclaim but also, if proper methods are used, the substitution, while the change is being made, of party patronage for personal patronage. The existing personnel machinery and staffs would have to be revamped; some of the actions needed are outlined in section J following. 10 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT C - PATRONAGE PITFALLS So nearly universal is the failure to realize the patronage possibilities, particularly in large services, that it seems worth while to list and explain some of the commoner and more significant patronage pitfalls. First in order is the failure of the party leaders and also of organiza- tion members on the lower levels to realize the magnitude of the patronage problems. Where two and a half or three million positions are involved, and probably two or three times that number of job seekers, the political, technical, and clerical requirements are tremendous. In the case of the national government the difficulties are increased by the diversified nature and geographical scattering of the positions and by the varying needs, de- sires, and qualifications of the job seekers. No political organization has ever built up the technical and clerical staffs needed to cope with patron- age problems of this scope and none has ever availed itself, except to a very limited extent, of the legal and ethical use of the existing personnel machinery of the national government. When the party leaders fail to realize the magnitude of the patronage problem, it follows as the day follows the night that they have no care- fully thought out patronage program. More often than not they fondly con- clude that, in some mysterious and unspecified fashion, the thing will work itself out satisfactorily. But in large services it never does. The 11 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT higher ups, at best, can give personal attention to only a few thousand po- sitions - and in so doing they run the risk of neglecting other matters of vital importance. The national party organization, with its limited staff, can attend to some additional thousands. The state and local organizations can assist materially, though the problems of coordination become difficult at these levels. Few of the job seekers have any except vague information as to the positions available; they typically ask for something "big, " make much noise, exert pressure, and demand quick action. In the end large numbers of party followers are appointed to positions which may or may not be suitable in view of their qualifications. But double, triple, or quad- ruple the number of actual appointments which are made might be made if the needed party and other machinery were available. The third pitfall is the delay in handling patronage matters. Time after time those seeking appointments which would be to the party advan- tage are told they must wait a little longer. At best, when a new admini- stration takes 'over the national government, some months must elapse be- fore a million appointments of party followers can be made in such a manner as to serve the needs of the country and the party and to meet the require- ments of the job seekers. When the days, weeks, and months go by with only limited patronage action, two things occur. The first is that indi- viduals within the party and bureaucrats within the service increasingly 12 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT take or force action which in many cases has unfortunate repercussions. The second is that many of those who think they are entitled to appointments but who fail to get them become vociferous and belligerent. In the end there are a good many appointments which, if they had been made promptly, would have been a distinct party asset but which, when made after annoying delays, are regarded as grudging and belated recognition calling for doubt and hostility rather than gratitude. The fourth major patronage pitfall also comes about, in considerable part, from the failure to recognize the magnitude of the patronage problems and to set up the organization needed to handle patronage matters. With two and a half million positions in the service, half of which or more are avail- able for patronage purposes, and with three, four, or five million party followers actively seeking appointments to which they think they are entitled, the task of matching men and jobs takes on large proportions. Sometimes the failure to do the matching well means nothing more than a poorly manned service about which the voters are only dimly aware. Typically, however, when the matching is poorly done, there is a stench which the voters cannot miss, which they resent, and which they punish at the next election. This happen's particularly when the misfits are given positions where they are in the public eye, or when they have corrupt or subversive tendencies, or when those lacking basic qualifications are given positions in which they have to make administrative or technical decisions that are far reaching. 13 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT There are other patronage pitfalls which might be discussed. It seems more to the point, however, to point out how, from 1933 to 1952, the Demo- crats came to grief because of their failure to envision and guard against avoidable patronage mistakes of the king that the Republicans can, if they will, avoid: 1. When a comprehensive plan of dispensing patronage was presented to him early in 1933, Mr. Farley decisively refused to face large scale patronage realities. He insisted that it would be readily possible, with the existing party machinery, to discover the deserving Democrats who should be appointed to federal positions, to locate the available positions, and to match men and jobs. The tasks, in reality, were not so formidable as they now are because then the federal service was only a fifth as large as it is at present and the positions were much less diversified. Yet, after about three months, Mr. Farley found it expedient to make a nation-wide radio address in which he tried, not very successfully, to explain why relatively few ap- pointments had been made and in which he pleaded with the faithful party followers to be patient for a few more months while the necessary arrange- ments were being made. 2. For years and years during the Roosevelt and Truman administra- tions the only active member of the Civil Service Commission was the minority Republican member. First Leonard D. White, then Samuel Ordway, and after him Arthur S. Flemming interested himself in the 14 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT policies, programs, procedures, and activities of the Commi ssion while their Democratic colleagues remained largely inactive. This anomaly was discussed in more than one cabinet meeting; Secretary Ickes in particular asked that something be done. But no remedial action was taken. 3. In the absence of any expressed and consistent party interest or action, one bureaucrat after another took advantage of the situation to build up his own personal machine. To give a single example, Ismar Baruch, head of the classification unit of the Civil Service Commission, took pains from 1933 on to become so powerful that he was able successfully to disregard the express instructions of his superiors in the Commission, President Roosevelt, and powerful Congressional leaders. 4. Insufficient attention was frequently paid to certain basic qualifica- tions, such as integrity and loyalty to the United States and its institutions, in making appointments to many key posts. As a result, the Republicans were able, in the 1952 campaign, to make effective issues of the corruption and subversion situations; inept handling of patronage, in fact, led to no in- considerable part of the "Washington mess. " 5. Most striking of all, perhaps, large scale patronage matters were handled so ineptly that large numbers of those given appointments - possibly a majority - were not even Democrats. This is indicated rather conclus- ively by certain results in the 1952 election. Arlington, Fairfax County, Alexandria, Montgomery County, and Prince Georges County, suburban 15 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT areas near Washington in which the federal employees are so numerous as almost to dominate the voting, all turned in sizable Republican majorities. These and other things which might be cited did not just happen. They came about because sufficient attention was not given to patronage problems. They may be expected to recur under a Republican administration, in the main, unless active steps are taken to produce a different kind of result. 16 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT D - THE SUGGESTED METHOD OF HANDLING PATRONAGE There are two compelling reasons why the orderly handling of patron- age cannot be accomplished by means of the party machinery only. The first is the prohibitive money costs which would be entailed in building up and maintaining the large technical and clerical staffs necessary. The second, which would be governing even if the first did not operate, is that the proper matching of men and jobs cannot be done without detailed information as to positions which the party does not now possess and which it cannot obtain without delays running into the years. These very stubborn facts show clearly that there are only two possible courses of action. The first is to proceed much as the Democrats did, rely- ing ppon methods improvised from time to time and then making a limited number of appointments without having at hand much of the needed informa- tion as to men and positions. This course is, or should be, unthinkable. The second possible course is to use both the party machinery and the exist- ing personnel machinery of the national government, making such changes and improvements in both as are necessary. The following paragraphs indicate, in barest outline, how this second course can be followed, legally and ethically and practically, to achieve the desired patronage goals. The later sections give some of the details. The first step is to obtain the needed information about themselves from party adherents seeking appointments. The party machinery should 17 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT be used for this purpose. The national, state, and party organizations should also supply information as to the propriety of the requests of the job seekers and decide upon the priorities to be observed in making ap- pointments. The specific procedures are outlined in greater detail in sec- tion E following. The needed information as to positions should be supplied by the Civil Service Commission. This includes not only a listing of the positions to which new appointments may be made but also rather detailed information as to their geographical location, their duties and responsibilities, the status of the present incumbents, and, as a matter of course, the rate of pay. The Commission should have on hand in usable form all needed informa- tion as to positions subject to the civil service laws. Unfortunately, however, there are now many gaps and much of the alleged information has little re- lation to realities. The suggested procedures are given in some detail in section F following. As a third step, the top level Republicans should determine with some definiteness those positions in both the unclassified service and the classi- fied service for which they will personally handle appointment matters. Both the party organizations and the Civil Service Commission should supply them with any information they need and desire in making their decisions but need not concern themselves further with the designated positions. 18 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT With adequate information as to job seekers and positions available, the fourth step is in order. This is the matching of men and jobs. The technical staff of the Civil Service Commission should do the original work, which is highly technical in nature. Normally as many as a dozen or even a score of suitable job openings should be listed, though in a relatively few cases not even one will be found. Then the listings should be submitted to the appropriate party organization, national, state, or local (normally for the state and local organizations through the national organization), for defi- nite decisions as to appointments. The procedures are outlined more fully in section G following. The fifth step is to make the appointment of the selected party follower to the selected position, giving him, with a few exceptions, indefinite or temporary status in positions in the classified service. The appropriate party organization should inform the appointing officer of the proposal (nor- mally he should collaborate in working it out), who should then make the appointment (in some cases pressure has to be exerted from above to get the appointing officer to act). The procedures are described more fully in section H following. In the course of two or three years - earlier if the pressure of the work load permits - the sixth step is in order. That is, for most of the indefi- nite and temporary appointees, to do the things necessary to give them permanent status. The necessary procedures are outlined in section I following. 19 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT The normal labor turnover will inevitably make necessary the repetition of the selection and appointment procedures for hundreds of thousands of po- sitions each year. After the initial work, it will almost surely be found to be desirable to establish in advance lists of qualified persons who take exami- nations and can be given first probationary and then permanent status without the intervening steps. If the examining work is handled competently, with the party organizations using proper efforts to get qualified party adherents to take the examinations, and if the appointing officers whenever possible select a party follower from the three from whom a choice may be made, a very large proportion of the probationary and permanent appointments will be of party adherents approved by the party organizations. It is apparent that, to handle large scale patronage matters effectively, there must be some expansion of the staff of the national party organization and some changes in existing procedures. And, at the outset, the whole personnel set up of the national government must be overhauled. The nec- essary changes include three carefully selected new members of the Civil Service Commission; the writing and adoption of new and realistic civil service rules prescribing workable procedures; the overhauling and re- organization of the Commission's technical and clerical staffs, both at Washington and in the field; and getting out of the personnel picture the expensive, time consuming, and useless agency personnel units. The suggested steps are outlined in section J following. 20 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT E - LISTING AND CLASSIFYING THE JOB SEEKERS It may be expected that the number of party adherents desiring appoint- ment to civilian positions will run into the millions. Few will know a great deal about the types of positions to which appointments may be made or the requirements therefor. Most will prefer to remain at or near their present places of abode but some will wish to go to Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or even abroad, or to places where they have relatives or friends. Most are likely to have somewhat exalted ideas as to their own capabilities, versatility, and worth. And, all experience shows, a sizable fraction are averse to doing much work, to keeping regular hours, or to meeting other obligations involved in performing assigned tasks in such a manner as to reflect credit on themselves and their party. Obviously it is necessary to obtain from each job seeker, with a rela- tively few exceptions, the salient information in written form. This infor- mation includes the name, age, sex, address, and telephone number of the job seeker; brief statements of his formal education and occupational experience; information as to the type or types of work for which he con- siders himself fitted and which he would like to do; the place or places he desires or is willing to work; the lowest rate of pay he is willing to accept and the amount he would like to be paid; the approximate date he will be available for federal appointment; and a succinct statement of the party 21 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT services which he considers should be taken into account in deciding upon appointments. Clearly this information can be obtained most certainly by the use of a carefully designed form. If any party follower regards the filling out of such a form as beneath his dignity, or if he is illiterate, then it can be filled out for him by the appropriate party organization. Obviously the form should be supplied by and addressed to the party organization, national, state, or local. The form should contain a space for the appropriate party leaders to re- cord their desires as to the appointment of the person who fills it out and sub- mits it. Probably some such classification as this is most useful: A - Early appointment urgently desired. B - Appointment urgently desired but time not of the essence. C - Appointment highly desirable. D - Appointment approved if a suitable opening becomes available. E - Appointment of little party significance but going through the motions seems expedient. In a separate space on the form the appropriate party leaders should also record their own conclusions as to the type or types of federal work for which the person filling out the form is qualified, the place or places he might work, and the pay he should receive. It is not to be expected that in routine cases they will have all the information needed to make a final decision on 22 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT these points but they are likely to be better informed and more realistice than the job seeker. It need hardly be added that the forms should be made available for the use of those who have the task of matching men and jobs. 23 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT F - OBTAINING NEEDED INFORMATION ABOUT POSITIONS As to most positions subject to the civil service laws, the Civil Service Commission has a good deal of information. This includes the position title, more or less information as to the duties, responsibilities, and organization relationships of significance, geographical and department location, the name and status of the incumbent, and the established rate of pay. Much of the in- formation, however, and particularly that as to duties, responsibilities, and organization relationships, is neither reliable, complete, nor current. The positions, moreover, are not uniformly grouped into classes having titles supposed to be descriptive; the classification work has been carelessly done. Three significant conclusions may safely be drawn: 1. Enough position information of a usable type is currently available to make possible a quick start on the large scale matching of men and jobs. 2. It will be necessary to collect and record current, reliable, and complete information as to individual positions and, on the basis of this in- formation, to group the positions into true classes before the initial patron- age work is rounded out and before much of the later work involved in giving permanent status to the initial appointees can be competently and legally done. This is a task which will take the major fraction of a year after the staff of the Civil Service Commission is reorganized and revamped but the work can be so done as to speed rather than delay the early appointment of indefinite and temporary employees. 24 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT 3. The position classification work is highly technical and need not be described here. The techniques are well known and of proved worth. The fact that the classification work has been toyed with rather than attacked vigor- ously since it was first authorized and directed in 1923 should not be inter- preted to mean that it cannot be quickly and well done when and if it is attacked in earnest. It should be emphasized, moreover, that ascertaining and record- ing the significant position information and grouping the positions into true classes which may be used for pay and recruiting purposes is a basic require- ment in handling large scale patronage operations. 25 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT G - MATCHING MEN AND JOBS With the significant information as to job seekers and as to positions at hand, the personnel technicians on the staff of the Civil Service Commission and the party leaders concerned can proceed apace with the task of matching men and jobs. The work naturally divides itself into two parts: 1. The tentative matching, a technical operation to be handled in the main by the personnel technicians. 2. The review by the appropriate party leaders of the proposals worked out by the personnel technicians to make sure that the political as well as the technical requirements are met as fully as possible. While it seems unnecessary to explain the matching procedures in detail, some examples make clear the nature and the magnitude of the tasks to be done. If, for instance, a party adherent given high political priority lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is fifty years of age, wants to work only in his home city, expects pay of $3500 a year, and has a varied semi-skilled mechanical background, the choice of positions to which he may be appointed is very limited indeed. But when the wider possibilities at another place a hundred miles away are pointed out to him by the appropriate party leaders (such information would normally be supplied them by the personnel technicians), he may change his mind about the place of work. Or if an available position in Cedar Rapids for which the pay is $3200 a year is called to his attention, he may lower his pay sights. Matters of this type come up by the thousand 26 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT in carrying on large scale matching operations; there is no escaping the "cut and try" procedures which involve the understanding collaboration of the personnel technicians and the party leaders. Exactly the same type of thing occurs when the problem is approached from the other angle - that is, finding the qualified party follower to be offered appointment to an available position. If, for example, there is to be organized a survey party to operate in the mountains near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from June 1 to September 30, 1953, and there are needed three additional chainmen and an instrument man, then a search may be made among the job seekers for those able and willing to do the necessary tasks under the conditions entailed. Here the difficulty is likely to be the temporary nature of the work - for four summer months only. Yet this is just the type of employment many who are attending engineering schools desire. It may well turn out, however, that as to the three chainman positions party adherents who would like all the year work will be willing to accept the summer jobs. Again the personnel technicians and the party leaders concerned must collaborate to assure the attainment of both technical and party ends. In case the personnel technicians and the party leaders are not in accord as to the fitness of a specific party adherent for a specific available position, the view of the party leaders should, with very rare exceptions, be govern- ing. The personnel technicians should not be expected or asked to base their professional conclusions upon political considerations; their sole task 27 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT is to discover one or more available positions which, as far as they can de- termine from the information available, the job seeker is qualified to fill. The party leaders, however, should rather meticulously refrain from fre- quently riding rough shod over the findings of the personnel technicians. It is doubtful whether, in either the long run or the short run, there is any party advantage in appointing a party adherent to a position which he is only poorly qualified to fill. At the outset the appointing authority is likely to be dis- pleased; after all, he needs competent workers in getting the work of his unit done. Then, too, public and voter disapproval almost surely comes sooner or later. Finally, real trouble develops when the time comes to consider giving permanent status to the indefinite or temporary appointee; then the conclusion of the personnel technicians must prevail and they cannot be ex- pected to compromise their professional integrity however fallible their find- ings may seem to others. 28 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT H - MAKING INDEFINITE, TEMPORARY, AND OTHER TYPES OF APPOINTMENTS NOT GIVING PERMANENT STATUS When the selection of the specific party adherent to be appointed to a specific position has been made, the appropriate party leader should inform the appointing authority, through the appropriate channels, of the decision and request that he proceed to make the indefinite, temporary, or other type of appointment not giving permanent status. Normally the appointing authority is consulted and aids in the course of the matching work; therefore he is normally ready to take the next step. In any case, the time has come for him to act. If he balks, it may be advisable to make modifications in the proposed action. But if he persists in being refractory without good cause, as sometimes happens, then pressure from on high may be necessary. In any case, the appointing authority should be allowed reasonable leeway, in view of the work load, the budget situation, and other pertinent factors, in choosing the time the appointment becomes effective. Sooner or later the indefinite, temporary, or other appointment not giving permanent status must be formally reviewed and approved (or dis- approved) by the Civil Service Commission. When its own technicians have participated in the matching process and have concluded that the appointee has the needed qualifications, Commission approval is likely to be quick and essentially perf unctory. 29 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT I - MAKING PERMANENT APPOINTMENTS During the first months of the incoming administration, practically all the appointments must of necessity be indefinite or temporary. This is due to three sets of facts. The first is that with the present set up of the Civil Service Commission, not a tenth as many examinations are being held as are necessary and most of these are too general to be of great value or to comply with legal and technical requirements; it will take some months to build up the needed staff. Then the examining procedures must be drastically re- vised. Finally, much reclassification work must precede good examining work. By the beginning of the second year of the new administration, if the re- organization, procedural, and reclassification operations are properly handled, it will be possible to put into effect the examining procedures neces- sary under the law to give first probationary and then permanent status to those having indefinite and temporary appointments, to those brought in directly from the outside, and to those promoted, with tests each month for some two hundred classes of positions. Holding such examinations, it should be noted, is a continuous process once it has been started and should continue year after year to eliminate, as far as possible, indefinite and temporary appointments. This is advantageous from the party standpoint, from the legal standpoint, and from the standpoint of public and voter ap- proval. In particular, following this course does not leave a million or 30 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT more appointees at the mercy of the incoming administration when the next change occurs. When proper examinations are held, not all those given indefinite and temporary appointments will win. Nevertheless they have a tremendous ad- vantage due to the training they have been given while serving as indefinite and temporary appointees. In addition, the Civil Service Commission certi- fies three names from the lists it establishes and the appointing authority can choose any of the three certified (there are exceptions in the case of veterans versus non-veterans). By selecting reasonably qualified indefinite and temporary employees in the first place, by giving them training on the job, by holding examinations which properly put a premium on job knowledge, and by using the choice of the three certified, the mortality can be held to small proportions. In holding the examinations which lead to probationary and then perma- nent appointments, the salient procedures are in part as follows: 1. When an examination for any class of positions is to be held, the Civil Service Commission prepares an announcement giving the title of the commission anronucement giving the title of the class, the duties, the pay, the places of work, the requirements, the man- ner of obtaining and filing applications, the time and places the examina- tions are held, and other significant information. 2. The Civil Service Commission distributes widely copies of the examination notice. Each indefinite and temporary appointee holding a 31 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT position allocated to the class is supplied a copy. In addition, enough copies are supplied to each county chairman in the areas where there are or will be positions to be filled that he can provide each district or precinct chairman with at least three copies. 3. The national and state party organizations exert whatever pressure is necessary to make sure that the county, district, and precinct chairmen call the announcement to the attention of qualified party adherents and stimu- late them to obtain, fill out, and submit applications. Such pressure, all experience shows, is necessary because the appointments are not to be made tomorrow or next week and many of the local party leaders persistently fail to look ahead. 4. The Civil Service Commission holds the examination and establishes an employment list containing the names of those found qualified. It should be repeated that the indefinite and temporary employees have a tremendous advantage. 5. The Civil Service Commission certifies to the appointing authority three names - those highest on the list. 6. The appointing authority makes his selection from the three certi- fied and gives him a probationary appointment. At this point the appropri- ate party organization needs to be on the alert to see that the appointing authority selects from those certified the one having political priority. 7. At the end of the probationary period the appointee, if his services have been satisfactory, is given permanent status. 32 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT J - REVAMPING THE PERSONNEL MACHINERY OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT In a large service containing millions of positions, widespread personnel confusion comes about unless there are a comprehensive personnel program, orderly personnel procedures, and adequate personnel machinery. The program, the procedures, and the machinery are needed not primarily or principally for patronage purposes but in order to carry on effectively and economically the activities undertaken. Lacking the personnel essentials, however, even patronage matters must be handled in a fashion which is at best uncertain and which at times becomes bungling. The reason for includ- ing this section in this discussion of patronage matters is that even if more compelling reasons for corrective action did not exist, patronage reasons alone call insistently for early improvements. The personnel program prescribed at different times by the Congress is quite comprehensive and as to most essentials sound. First things are put first - position classification, pay, recruiting, employee ratings, leaves, and separations. But, since its creation seventy years ago in 1883, the Civil Service Commission has failed or refused to accept most of the Con- gressional personnel program and has persisted in substituting another of its own. It pays lip service to position classification requirements but, with negligible exceptions, does not use its own classes for pay, recruit- ing, and other purposes. It merely toys with recruiting problems. Its 33 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT' shortcomings in this field are graphically represented by its failure to hold promotion examinations and by the fact that, at this moment, there are nearly a million employees who have only indefinite and temporary status though many have been in their positions for years. The pay of federal officers and employees is not closely and consistently related to the kind, the quantity, and the quality of the work they are doing; personal factors are governing with distressing fre- quency and classifications are moved upward in large numbers to bring about higher pay rates for favorites. Employee rating problems, despite a Congress- ional mandate dating back to 1923, are mostly untouched. The handling of sep- arations depends largely - not entirely - upon the varying needs, whims, and desires of thousands of administrative and supervisory officers. The Commis- sion has developed into a fine art the practice of running away from major tech- nical problems. When these became unduly pressing in 1939, Commissioner Ordway persuaded President Roosevelt to set up the agency personnel units and give them directions to do personnel tasks vested by law in the Commission; these agency units, in turn, with a few exceptions have passed the responsibili- ties given them to the operating officers. From time to time the Commission, while refusing to tackle seriously major personnel matters, has given consider- able attention to personnel refinements such as employee training, safety, em- ployee suggestions, and scholarships of varied kinds. There are two notably bright areas in this dismal picture; the Commission has accepted the Congress- ional mandates as to leaves and retirements and has set up fairly adequate 34 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT even though cumbersome leave and retirement procedures. As usually happens when major personnel problems are systematically evaded over a period of years, the personnel procedures have become complex, uncertain, time consuming, and ineffective. In the actual handling of the person- nel transactions they are disregarded about as often as not, with the responsible officer, whenever it pleases him to do so, deciding each action "on its merits" - which is a euphemistic way of saying he does about as he pleases. Two examples will show the basic nature of the existing situation. The personnel manual, sup- posed to be governing, now contains almost a thousand large printed pages and is still growing; it is supplemented by even more voluminous circulars, supple- ments, directives, interpretations, rulings, letters, and other prescriptions. Even the "experts" in this field are often hard put to it to know what the governing prescriptions are and the officers who handle personnel matters do not, with some exceptions, even attempt to master this maze of material. The slowness is illustrated by the sorry experience of an administrative officer who asked for the certification of three eligibles from a list for which there was a "regi- ster. " Several weeks passed before he was able to obtain any action; when he took pains to find the cause of the delay, he found that this routine transaction had to be cleared by twenty-four separate and distinct persons of various types and levels before the certification could be made. In a word, the governing personnel prescriptions are mostly incomprehensible and are so administered as practically to stop personnel operations except as the operating officers 35 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT take matters into their own hands. These conditions have led, too, to the creation and clumsy operation of unbelievably complex personnel machinery. The Civil Service Commission has established fourteen district offices, which is less than a quarter of the number needed to enable the supervisory operating officers and the personnel technicians to get together consistently when personnel problems have to be worked out. To aggravate this situation, the staffs of these district units concern themselves largely - almost wholly, in fact - with paper work and what they call "policing" instead of going into the field to advise and assist the operating officers. It was partly because of these deficiencies that the agency personnel units were set up. But these, with some exceptions, simply make up another layer of per- sonnel officers and clerks who make sizable indentations in the taxpayer's dollar, interpose more delays, and contribute little or nothing to good personnel man- agement. There has also been much talk of "decentralization" but this boat too has been missed. The need is for geographical, not departmental, decen- tralization - but the agency personnel units, again with some exceptions, oper- ate from Washington even to a greater degree than the Civil Service Commis- sion. The operating officer in Kansas City or Houston or Elmira or Butte or Providence who has a troublesome personnel matter hanging over his head has very slight chance indeed to get first or other aid from the personnel tech- nician who should but does not call upon him to help arrive at a legal, sound, and prompt decision. 36 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT Such personnel conditions call insistently for correction. Remedial action is needed not merely to make possible the effective handling of patron- age matters but much more importantly to contribute to the effective and economi- cal operation of the executive branch of the national government. Fortunately there is no basic conflict in general and patronage objectives; in fact, if the procedures set forth herein are accepted, each for the time being at least, ties in with the other. Therefore in the following paragraphs the rather obvious corrective measures are briefly outlined. The first need is for a properly manned Civil Service Commission. Without that little improvement can be expected. The new members should be carefully selected. At least two of the three should have comprehensive per- sonnel know how. Good intentions, industry, high public standing, political availability, a high order of eloquence, civic consciousness, accomplishments in other fields, and the like, while highly desirable, cannot suffice to clean up the personnel mess. The first requisite is proved ability to organize, direct, and participate in the actual operation of large scale personnel operations as they are carried on through a central personnel agency. Closely allied is proved ability to work harmoniously with high placed persons of diverse types; these include the President, the Congressional leaders, the heads of the sev- eral agencies, and the officers of business, civic, and employee groups. The limited personnel accomplishments of eminent and admirable citizens like Harry Mitchell, Leonard D. White, Samuel Ordway, Arthur S. Flemming, 37 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT Frances Perkins, and Robert Ramspeck, to mention only a few, shows quite conclusively that the civil service commissioner without personnel know how gets exactly nowhere when confronted with large scale personnel disorder, con- fusion, mismanagement, and ineptitude. Of such far reaching importance is the make up of the Civil Service Commission that it seems worth while to indicate at least one possible course of action. For Chairman of the Commission, some such man as Robert C. Smith, a Virginia Republican, is essential. Mr. Smith, as Personnel Director for the Department of Labor, developed for that Department a sound personnel pro- gram despite the opposition and sniping of the Civil Service Commission's staff and won the support and understanding of the southern leaders in the Congress. Mr. Smith left the Department of Labor in 1946 and is now Director of Indus- trial Relations for the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, where he is doing notable personnel work in the business field. Mr. Smith, if appointed Chairman, would need the help of Charles P. Messick, a New Jersey Republican. During a period covering thirty years Mr. Messick was the principal figure in building up and maintaining a person- nel system for the New Jersey state government and for numerous local gov- ernments which grew to have a total of sixty thousand positions. He gave major attention at all times to the personnel fundamentals - position classification, pay, recruiting, ratings, leaves, and separations - but did not neglect the personnel refinements when the personnel stage was properly set for them. 38 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT He enlisted the understanding collaboration of Governors, legislative groups, operating officers, civic organizations, and employee groups. He has high professional and political standing. More important, he, more than any other living person in the United States, has been successful in building, operating, and maintaining a comprehensive and sound personnel system on a large scale. The third member to work with Mr. Smith and Mr. Messick should probably be a woman from the middle west or the far west. She would not need to be a personnel technician but should be well and favorably known among those active in the women's organizations and should be able to explain the personnel program to them, including the patronage angles, and win their understanding support. The second need is that the Civil Service Commission and all its agents accept the personnel program prescribed by the Congress and abandon that of its own devising. Such acceptance should be one of the conditions of appoint- ment to the Commission. The Congressional program, moreover, must be given practical effect, not regarded with a jaundiced eye. It may seem far fetched to insist on this point. But seventy years of rather consistent flouting of the Congressional mandates shows that acceptance of the Congressional per- sonnel program is of first importance. The third need is for proper civil service rules to take the place of the present jumble of rules, manuals, circulars, directives, interpretations, rulings, and other prescriptions. The new rules should be so worded as to 39 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT be clear and understandable, so comprehensive as to cover the several types of personnel transactions, and so explicit as to indicate unmistakably the re- sponsibilities, in originating and passing upon personnel transactions, of the administrative and supervisory officers, the employees, and the personnel technicians. The civil service rules are promulgated by the President but the Civil Service Commission and its staff normally assist him in their drafting. The fourth need is the proper organization and manning of the Commis- sion's staff. There is no need, in this discussion, to go into the details of this matter. But attention may well be called to a few essentials. The headquarters staff in Washington should be so organized and operated as to provide the basic personnel tools and procedures. These include the working out of the details of the personnel program as needed to effectuate the Congressional mandates; the development of the detailed operating procedures; providing quarters and facilities for the district organizations; the development (not the administra- tion) of the classification and pay plans; the construction (not the giving) of tests; and the development of the employee rating system. The administration of the personnel program should be handled through the district organizations. About seventy-five districts are needed to make it possible for the personnel technicians to visit and work with the operating officers who have a part in the handling of classification, pay, recruiting, rating, leave, separation, and other personnel operations. They should also make sure, in the course of their visits, that the prescriptions contained in the law and the rules are under- 40 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT stood and observed. The fifth need is for the building up of competent technical and clerical staffs. This means practically a clean sweep of the present incumbents in the top three or four technical levels; they have shown conclusively year in and year out that they have neither the will nor the capacity to cope with the complex organization and operating problems. A sizable fraction of those in the lower technical levels can probably be salvaged despite their training in false and un- sound conceptions and practices. In the main, however, a new technical staff would undoubtedly have to be built up by bringing in from the outside those who have shown competence in the operation of sound state and local personnel systems and by finding others with the basic traits needed and giving them the proper technical training. The present clerical staff is capable and almost surely could handle the paper work well when the unnecessary and time consum- ing operations are eliminated. The new technical and clerical staffs at head- quarters and in the district offices would almost surely be smaller than the present staffs if account is taken of the numerous agency employees now assigned to the Civil Service Commission (principally from the Post Office Department). As to the agency personnel units, they cost millions of dollars to op- erate, slow up personnel operations, interpose one more personnel layer, and contribute little to effective personnel management. With the staff of the Civil Service Commission properly organized and manned, they would 41 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT become a useless fifth wheel on the personnel wagon. They should be elimi- nated in their entirety. Since they were created by executive order, they can be discontinued in the same way. With the Civil Service Commission organized, manned, and operated in the manner outlined in this section, large and small personnel matters could be dealt with effectively and fruitfully - including the handling of patronage. 42 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT K - SUPPLEMENTAL OBSERVATIONS No attempt has been made in the preceding sections to set forth every de- tail of the suggested patronage program. Many of the implications have been passed over lightly or not even mentioned. It seems desirable in this final sec- tion to discuss briefly several significant matters. First of all, it must be fairly obvious that the patronage situation is in a con- stant state of flux. As some party followers are given appointments, the number of openings available for others decrease accordingly. But the constant labor turnover works in the opposite direction. At the present time there are few lists of eligibles and those have been made up without calling the openings generally and specifically to the attention of party adherents. With good personnel and po- litical management the number of lists will increase markedly after a few months and on them the names of party adherents will predominate. Even the reclassifi- cation of existing positions, which should be done early and on a large scale, leads to many changes in the incumbents of the positions reclassified. In brief, the personnel situation does not become and remain static. In the second place, the top level Republicans, in making their selections of those to be appointed to the higher posts, or of any others in whom they have a personal interest, are likely to need a good deal of information, both specific and reliable, about the duties of positions, legal requirements, customs, and work conditions. It is therefore suggested that a request be made for the im- 43 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT mediate detail, possibly in a part time capacity, of three or four trustworthy personnel technicians who know their way about in the existing personnel maze and who cannot only collect factual information but who can also translate the prevailing personnel and position gobbledygook often resorted to into understand- able English. Almost every agency, when a request for information comes to it, will almost surely go through the motions of supplying whatever is requested. But it does not follow that in every case such information will be understandable, complete, and reliable. Thirdly, it would be a patronage mistake of the first order not to enlist the collaboration of some or most of the Republican members of the Congress in handling patronage matters. In any case many of them will be in the picture. They can be very helpful indeed in obtaining and appraising information about job seekers, in conveying reliable information to them, in convincing them that they must accept the most suitable available position, and in many other ways. Failure in the preceding sections to make specific mention of Congressional collaboration should not lead to the conclusion that it is looked upon as unnec- essary or unimportant. Just the opposite is the case. Closely related is the matter of building up Republican party organizations in the southern states. Such action can be vastly facilitated by the use of patronage or retarded by withholding patronage. There is no legal, technical, or political reason why those engaged in building up these local Republican organizations should be regarded as outcasts when federal civilian positions 44 - Suggested Patronage Program - FT in their respective areas are to be filled. On the other hand, there is every reason why they should be encouraged to make known their desires as to the appointment of qualified persons to available positions. Finally, if some such patronage program as that outlined herein is adopted, the matter of centralization and decentralization among and within the national, state, and local party organizations will frequently arise. There is no known formula which indicates unmistakably what course is best in any given situation. It may be rather confidently concluded, however, that the national organization should consciously, after proper consultation with those concerned, including the state and local groups, decide upon the patronage program and the broad procedures to put it into effect; that every task which the state and local organi- zations are organized and manned to do well should be left to them; and that the national organization will find it necessary, if the patronage ball is to be kept rolling, to supply a good deal of stimulation and guidance. It need hardly be added that most of the arrangements for appointments to positions in Washington and abroad should be handled by the national organization. Ehrlichman 0 DETERMINED TO BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING E.O. 12065, Section 6-102 By RM MRI, Date 5-27-80 CONFIDENTIAL LIST OF NEW YORK POSITIONS November 22, 1968 Note: In addition, Ambassadors and all Chairmen and Members (as opposed to Staff) of Independent Agencies are deemed included in the New York cat- egory whether or not listed herein. I. Bureau of the Budget 1. Director 2. Deputy Director 3. Assistant Director 4. Assistant Director 5. Assistant Director II. Council of Economic Advisers 6. Chairman 7. Member 8. Member 9. Executive Director, Cabinet Commission on Price Stability III. National Security Council 10. Executive Secretary IV. National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development 11. Executive Secretary V. National Aeronautics and Space Council 12. Executive Secretary VI. Office of Economic Opportunity 13. Director 14. Deputy Director 15. Community Action Program, Assistant Director 16. Job Corps, Assistant Director 17. VISTA, Assistant Director 18. 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Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 40. Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 41. Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration 42. Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations 43. 11 " " " " African Affairs 44. " " " " " Inter-American Affairs 45. " " " " " European Affairs 46. " " " " " East Asian and Pacific Affairs 47. " " " " " Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs 48 " " " " " Economic Affairs 49. " " " " " Educational and Cultural Affairs 50. " " " " " International Organization Affairs 51. " " " " " Public Affairs 52. " " " " " Administration 53. Counselor of the Department 54. Legal Adviser 55. Administrator, SCA 56. Inspector General - Foreign Assistance 57. Deputy Inspector General - Foreign Assistance 58. Chief of Protocol (International Organizations) 59. Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INternational Org's) 60. U. S. Representative to the U.N. 61. Deputy Representative to the U. 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Director, Peace Corps (Ambassadors on separate list) XIII. Department of the Treasury 80. Secretary of the Treasury 81. Under Secretary 82. Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs 83. Assistant Secretary 84. " " 85. " " 86. " " 87. General Counsel 88. Comptroller of the Currency 89. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 90. Assistant General Counsel (Chief Counsel, IRS) 91. Treasurer of the United States 92. Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs 93. Special Assistant to the Secretary (for Enforcement) 94. Commissioner of Customs XIV. Department of Defense 95. Secretary of Defense 96. Deputy Secretary of Defense 97. Director of Defense Research and Engineering 98. Principal Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering 99. Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency 100. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Administration) 101. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 102. Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) 103. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics) 104. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs) 105. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) 106. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) 107. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis) 108. General Counsel (Department of the Army) 109. Secretary of the Army 110. Under Secretary of the Army 111. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management) 112. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Logistics) 113. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) -4- 114. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Development) 115. Director of Civil Defense 116. General Counsel (Department of the Navy) 117. Secretary of the Navy 118. Under Secretary of the Navy 119. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Logistics) 120. " " " " " (Research and Development) 121. " " " " " (Financial Management) 122. " " " " " (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) (Department of the Air Force) 123. Secretary of the Air Force 124. Under Secretary of the Air Force 125. Assistant Secretary ( (Research and Development) 126. Assistant Secretary (Installations and Logistics) 127. Assistant Secretary (Financial Management) 128. Assistant Secretary (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) 129. General Counsel XV. Department of Justice 130. Attorney General 131. Deputy Attorney General 132. Solicitor General 133. Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division 134. " " " Civil Division 135. " " " Tax Division 136. 11 " " Internal Security Division 137. " " " Criminal Division 138. 11 " " Land and Natural Resources Division 139. " " " Office of Legal Counsel 140. Administrator, Law Enforcement Assistance 141. Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service 142. Special Assistant for Public Relations 143. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation XVI. Post Office Department 144. Postmaster General 145. Deputy Postmaster General 146. Assistant Postmaster General, Personnel 147. " " " Finance and Administration 148. " " " Operations 149. " " " Facilities 150. " " " Transportation 151. " " 11 Research and Engineering 152. General Counsel 153. Special Assistant to the Postmaster General (Public Information) XVII. Department of the Interior 154. Secretary of the Interior 155. Under Secretary of the Interior -5- 156. Assistant Secretary (Public Land Management) 157. " " (Water and Power Development) 158. " " (Water Pollution Control) 159. " " (Mineral Resources) 160. " " (Fish and Wildlife) 161. Solicitor 162. Commissioner, Fish and Wildlife Service and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife 163. Commissioner, Bureau of Indian Affairs 164. Director, Bureau of Mines 165. Director, Geological Survey 166. Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamations 167. Assistant to the Secretary and Director of Information 168. Assistant to the Secretary, Congressional Liaison 169. Director, National Park Service 170. Commissioner, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration XVIII. Department of Agriculture 171. Secretary of Agriculture 172. Under Secretary 173. Assistant Secretary 174. " " 175. " " 176. General Counsel XIX. Department of Commerce 177. Secretary of Commerce 178. Under Secretary 179. General Counsel 180. Assistant Secretary for Economic Development 181. " " " Domestic and International Business 182. " " " Economic Affairs 183. " " " Science and Technology 184. " " " Administration 185. Maritime Administrator 186. Director, Bureau of Census 187. Director, National Bureau of Standards 188. Commissioner, Patent Office 189. Federal Co-Chairman, Ozarks Regional Commission 190. " " Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission 191. " " New ENGland Regional Commission 192. " " Coastal Plains Regional Commission 193. " " Four Corners Regional Commission 194. Special Assistant for Congressional Relations 195. Assistant for Public Affairs 196. Director, Office of Foreign Direct Investments XX. Department of Labor 197. Secretary of Labor 198. Under Secretary 199. Assistant Secretary 200. " " -6- 201. Assistant Secretary 202. " " 203. Solicitor of Labor 204. Administrator of Wage and Hour Divisions 205. Commissioner of Labor Statistics 206. Special Assistant to the Secretary (Office of Legislative Liaison) XXI. Department of Health, Education and Welfare 207. Secretary 208. Under Secretary 209. Assistant Secretary (Legislation) 210. " " (Education) 211. " " (Health and Scientific Affairs) 212. " " (Planning and Evaluation) 213. " " for Commissioner and Field Service 214. General Counsel 215. Commissioner on Aging (Social and Rehabilitation Service) 216. Chief, Children's Bureau " " " " 217. Commissioner, Office of Education 218. " Social Security Administration 219. Department Assistant Secretary (Legislation) 220. Director, Public Information 221. Administrator, SRS XXII. Department of Housing and Urban Development 222. Secretary 223. Under Secretary 224. General Counsel 225. Assistant Secretary for Mortgage Credit and Federal Housing Commissioner 226. Assistant Secretary for Renewal and Housing Assistance 227. " " " Model Cities and Governmental Relations 228. " " " Metropolitan Development 229. " " " Equal Opportunity 230. " " " Urban Technology and Research 231. " " " Congressional Services 232. Director of Public Affairs 233. Federal Insurance Administrator 234. President, Federal National Mortgage Association 235. Director, Model Cities Administrator XXIII. Department of Transportation 236. Secretary 237. Under Secretary 238. General Counsel 239. Assistant Secretary for Policy Development 240. " " " International Affairs and Special Programs 241. " " " Research and Technology 242. " " " Public Affairs -7- (Federal Aviation Administration) 243. Administrator 244. Deputy Administrator 245. Assistant Administrator for Congressional Liaison 246. Federal Highway Administrator 247. Director, Bureau of Public Roads 248. Deputy Federal Highway Administrator 249. Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration 250. Administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 251. Federal Rail Administrator Independent Agencies I. Appalachian Regional Commission 252. Co-Chairman II. Atomic Energy Commission 253. Commissioner III. Civil Aeronautics Board 254. General Counsel IV. District of Columbia Government 255. Commissioner of the District of Columbia V. Export-Import Bank of the U. S. 256. President and Chairman 257. First Vice President and Vice Chairman 258. Director 259. " 260. " 261. Executive Vice President 262. General Counsel VI. Farm Credit Administration 263. Governor 264. General Counsel VII. Federal Communications Commission 265. Member (Chairman) 266. General Counsel VIII. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 267. General Counsel -8- 268. Executive Assistant and Controller IX. Federal Home Loan Bank Board 269. General Counsel X. Federal Maritime Commission 270. General Counsel XI. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service 271. Director 272. General Counsel XII. Federal Power Commission 273. General Counsel XIII. Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors 274. Chairman 275. General Counsel XIV. Federal Trade Commission 276. General Counsel XV. General Services Administration 277. Administrator 278. Deputy Administrator XVI. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission 279. General Counsel XVII. Indian Claims Commission 280. Chief Counsel XVIII. Interstate Commerce Commission 281. Chairman 282. Congressional Liaison Officer XIX. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 283. Administrator 284. Deputy Administrator 285. Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs 286. " " " Legislative Affairs 287. Associate Administrator, NASA Headquarters 288. General Counsel, NASA Headquarters -9- XX. National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 289. Chairman XXI. National Labor Relations Board 290. Board Member XXII. National Science Foundation 291. Director 292. Comptroller 293. General Counsel 294. Head, Congressional and Public Affairs XXIII. Securities and Exchange Commissions 295. Commissioner 296. Chief Accountant 297. General Counsel XXIV. Selective Service System 298. Director XXV. Small Business Administration 298. Administrator 299. Assistant Administrator (Congressional and Public Affairs) 300. Deputy Administrator XXVI. Subversive Activities Control Board 301. Member 302. Member XXVII. U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 303. Director 304. Deputy Director XXVIII. Tennessee Valley Authority 305. Chairman XXIX. U. S. Civil Service Commission 306. Commissioner XXX. U. S. Information Agency 307. Director 308. Deputy Director -10- 309. Member 310. Liaison Officer (Congressional) Office of the General Counsel XXXI. U.S. Tariff Commission 311. Commissioner 312. " XXXII. Veteran's Administration 313. Administrator of Veterans' Affairs 314. Deputy Administrator 315. General Counsel XXXIII. Commission on Civil Rights 316. Staff Director 317. Deputy Staff Director BROOKINGS PUBLICATIONS CHECKLIST JULY 1968 The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, educa- tion, and publication in economics, governmental studies, and foreign policy. In addition to the books listed below, which may be ordered through bookstores or directly from the Institution, Brookings issues an Annual Report, a quarterly Bulletin, reprints of articles by staff members, and a Research Report Series summarizing highlights of its studies. Further infor- mation about these publications may be obtained by writing the Publications Division, Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036. Complete Alphabetical List of Titles Page 2 Index of Authors Page 14 SELECTED TITLES RECENT ECONOMIC STUDIES Britain's Economic Prospects, by Richard E. Caves Social Security: Perspectives for Reform, by Joseph and Associates. 7.50 A. Pechman, Henry J. Aaron, Michael Taussig. 6.75 Distance and Development: Transport and Com- munications in India, by Wilfred Owen. 5.00 European Economic Integration and the United The Wage-Price Guideposts, by John Sheahan. States, by Lawrence B. Krause. 6.75 Paper 2.50 Cloth 6.75 Policy Simulations with an Econometric Model, by Problems in Public Expenditure Analysis, Samuel Gary Fromm and Paul Taubman. 6.00 B. Chase, Jr., ed. 6.75 RECENT GOVERNMENTAL STUDIES Politics and Policy: Social and Economic Issues Science Policy and the University, Harold Orlans, from Eisenhower to Johnson, by James L. ed. Paper 2.95 Cloth 7.50 Sundquist. Paper 3.50 Cloth 8.75 Every Second Year: Congressional Behavior and Government Contracting and Technological the Two-Year Term, by Charles O. Jones. Change, by Clarence H. Danhof. 8.75 Paper 2.25 Cloth 6.00 Party Leaders in the House of Representatives, by National Election of 1964, Milton C. Cummings, Randall B. Ripley. Paper 2.50 Cloth 6.75 Jr., ed. 5.00 RECENT FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES The United Nations and United States Security Prospects for Peacekeeping, by Arthur M. Cox. Policy, by Ruth B. Russell. 10.00 3.95 Development Projects Observed, by Albert O. Cuba and the United States: Long-Range Perspec- tives, John Plank, ed. 6.75 Hirschman. Paper 2.25 Cloth 6.00 A World of Nations: Problems of Political Mod- Economic Policies Toward Less Developed Coun- ernization, by Dankwart A. Rustow. tries, by Harry G. Johnson. 6.75 Paper 2.95 Cloth 7.95