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Lyndon Johnson: “In taking this long overdue step, the plan adopts a proven concept of good management recommended by the first Hoover…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1967
In taking this long overdue step, the plan adopts a proven concept of good management recommended by the first Hoover Commission: in the interests of efficiency purely administrative functions--budgeting, personnel supervision and general management-should be vested in the chairman of a commission rather than diffused throughout the commission.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 2 of 1967: United States Tariff Commission

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