Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House meeting, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor opposed any action by the Administration, but they were virtually alone. The President ordered the Budget Bureau and the Treasury to work out some recommendations, put his men to work drafting an economic message that will outline a series of at least half a dozen specific actions. There will almost certainly be no general tax increase right now, partly because Johnson believes that such a hike would hurt Democrats in the coming elections and partly because he feels that asking for it now would give Republicans an excuse...
Different Approaches. The ICBM was only one of his accomplishments. Schriever thought out and proposed the creation of the Systems Command itself-with "authority to plan, budget, program and control the research and development effort of the Air Force"-ten years before becoming its first chief in 1961. Under him, the command managed a wide assortment of complex programs and projects that ranged from aerospace medical research to combat and transport aircraft, from an automated ground guidance system for interceptor operations to military communications satellites. The Systems Command also worked out administrative techniques, now being widely copied by other Government...
...society is more affluent than ever, profiting not only from the large contributions of anonymous wealthy donors but from a spate of its own activities. Its budget in 1964 was about $3,200,000; this year it will probably be in the neighborhood of $6,000,000. Last year the society's 360 "reading rooms" sold about $4,000,000 worth of materials. In addition to books and pamphlets, the society publishes a monthly magazine called American Opinion, a monthly newsletter and a weekly Review of the News. It runs a speaker's bureau that has a roster...
...what we have. We predicted that the guideposts would fail-and they have. We recommended that the Government postpone some Great Society spending until the Viet Nam war is settled. The President rejected all our proposals. Inflation will continue so long as the Government operates with a deficit budget. I see no end to it." The end is indeed hard...
...City, including three "inner city" missions on the Lower East Side and the fringe of Harlem. In all, Trinity and its daughter chapels sponsor more than 100 sideline activities, ranging from children's summer camps to chapters of Alcoholics Anonymous; the church provides about one-sixth of the budget of New York's Episcopal Diocese...