Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show, Johnson was busy laying the groundwork for postinaugural accomplishments. He sent four messages to Capitol Hill-dealing with education, immigration, foreign aid and financing disarmament negotiations. He signed his first bill of 1965, a special act authorizing him to delay his reports to Congress on the budget and the state of the economy until next week-slightly beyond the legal deadlines...
...seems clear, has been an excuse as well as a genuine cause for the diversion of our energies from domestic well-being to external security," he told the teachers. "It has encroached upon our sovereignty; it has given the Communists the major voice in determining what proportion of our budget must be allocated to the military and what proportion therefore cannot be made available for domestic social and economic projects...
...costs $4.9 billion, in forms as various as Department of Agriculture school lunches, National Science Foundation grants and NASA training funds. But if Congress enacts the recommendations of the message on education that President Johnson sends to it this week, the Office of Education next year will get its budget doubled to $3 billion...
Nonetheless, the assignment illustrates Johnson's growing reliance on Ackley and his colleagues. With a professional staff of only 16, the three-man Council ranks (as Heller liked to say) somewhere between the Indian Claims Commission and the American Battle Monuments Commission, and has a budget of only $645,000; yet it exerts power and influence far beyond its size. Last week the Council's members worked late into each night helping to prepare the budget and the President's annual economic message to Congress. Ranging from high policy to day-to-day chores, the CEA keeps...
...skillful administrator. Ackley now talks with the President at least three times daily, sends him a daily stream of communications, meets regularly with Cabinet members. He has been helping to cull the 15 presidential task-force reports for legislative recommendations, also serves with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon on the troika that advises Johnson on fiscal policy...