Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clark Clifford, [asked by Kennedy to analyze the problems of taking over the executive], discussed transition problems with an associate from Truman days, Richard Neustadt, a political scientist who had worked in the Bureau of the Budget and later as a Special Assistant in the White House before becoming a professor at Columbia. Neustadt shared Clifford's concern about the interregnum. Both remembered all too well the lost weeks after the triumph of 1948 when Truman went off to Key West and, in his absence, congressional leaders made bargains with interest groups which deprived him of control over...
Local Initiative. The Federal Government would put up 90% of the public funds involved. Private investment would be encouraged. Primarily because of budget pressure resulting from the Vietnamese war, Johnson has asked only $12 million initially to help underwrite planning for the 60 to 70 cities expected to take part. After that, he estimated, the program would cost $2.3 billion in its first six years, adding $400 million to the $691 million a year in federal money now being spent in 800 cities for urban renewal and public housing...
...said, "than a rat by a Red." He was "Red Mike" then, one of the most radical of the American Labor Party leaders. By the time he broke with the Communists in 1948, the union was secure. The Democrats who controlled city hall-and the transit budget-were more reliable allies, and Mike became a loud antiCommunist...
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky refused to set aside money for the railroad in his 1966 budget, and General William C. Westmoreland received a letter coyly suggesting that the U.S. lease the railroad for $340,000 a month...
...Henry had already made clear he would not have to fight the battle of Verdon. René quit because Mrs. Mary Kaltman, the new White House "food coordinator," insisted on budget-paring barbarities such as frozen vegetables. Though Haller's main job will be to cook for official dinners and luncheons, he is an accomplished cuisine czar in his own right and will also supervise Mrs. Kaltman's "central storage service," which supplies all three White House kitchens...