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CONFIDENTIAL
SU - th Draft
1/20/71
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the Executive Office of the President. We conformed the field oper- --
ations of the major departments to a new pattern that made it easier
for govevnors and mayors and citizens to deal with them and to get
decisions.
Each was the subject of often harshly critical questioning before
it was done. But after it was done, the principal question asked was
why it had not been done sooner.
For with each of these changes, the government did a better job
for the people.
I propose we reduce the present twelve Cabinet Departments to
eight.
I propose that the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense and
Justice remain, and the other seven departments be consolidated into
four: Human Resources, Community Development, Natural Resources,
and Economic Development.
Let us look at what these would be:
-- First, a department dealing with the concerns of
people -- as individuals, as members of a family - -
a department focused on human needs.
CONFIDENTIAL
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