Report to the Congress, 1949, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - Executive departments |
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Page 42 - Respectfully, Chairman. The Honorable The President of the Senate The Honorable The Speaker of the House of Representatives in 781 LETTER OF SUBMISSION TASK FORCE ON WATEB RESOURCES AJTD POWER May 3, 1956.
Page 76 - Congress for the conduct of the executive branch. [But] responsibility and accountability are impossible without authority — the power" to direct. The exercise of authority is impossible without a clear line of command from the top to the bottom, and a return line of responsibility and accountability from the bottom to the top.
Page 69 - This concern of Congress for economy and efficiency reflects the overwhelming interest of every thoughtful citizen and taxpayer in the land. The writing and adoption of the Federal Constitution proved that a republic could deliberately analyze its political institutions and redesign its government to meet the demands of the future. The broad pattern that America then selected is sound. Today we must deal with the infinitely more complicated government of the twentieth century. In doing so, we must...
Page 15 - The numerous agencies of the executive branch must be grouped into departments as nearly as possible by major purposes in order to give a coherent mission to each Department
Page 68 - July 1953 to study and investigate the present organization and methods of operation of all departments, bureaus, agencies, boards, commissions, offices, independent establishments, and instrumentalities of the...
Page 19 - The State Department as a general rule should not be given responsibility for the operation of specific programs, whether overseas or at home.
Page xii - ... President and not of the Office of the Budget, the annual economic report is the report of the President, not of the Council. Like the Office of the Budget, the Council should advise the President as a professional staff agency and should not take public leadership on issues of policy in its own right. The Council is a relatively new agency. It has properly proceeded with considerable caution in developing its role. No one can judge its strength or weakness with confidence at this early stage...
Page 76 - The President, and under him his chief lieutenants, the Department heads, must be held responsible and accountable to the people and the Congress for the conduct of the executive branch. Responsibility and accountability are impossible without authority — the power to direct. The exercise of authority is impossible without a clear line of command from the top to the bottom, and a return line of responsibility and accountability from the bottom to the top.