Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commerce Secretary, Connor will head up an awkwardly diversified department that has 33,538 employees, operates on a $4.5 billion budget, and includes the Bureau of the Census, Patent Office, Bureau of Public Roads, Weather Bureau and Area Redevelopment Administration. But the true mis sion of the Secretary of Commerce cannot be written into an organization chart. In its simplest terms, it is to promote confidence in the Administration among businessmen. That is something at which President Johnson himself works almost full time, and he is awfully good at it. In John Connor, the President should have an able helper...
This was being done, claimed Kosygin, because the Kremlin had been told by Washington that the U.S. military budget for next year was being...
More Capital. Kosygin's chief news tor the Russian people came in his presentation of a relatively sensible-sounding 1965 budget. It suggested that the new regime wants to go on with "goulash Communism"-but more efficiently, ,more evenhandedly and less flamboyantly than Khrushchev...
...presentation was astonishingly frank. One delegate, to the manifest surprise of the leadership, even mentioned Khrushchev by name, accusing him of the mistake of not facing facts but "presenting the desired as reality" -otherwise known as wishful thinking. He then had the audacity to accuse Kosygin's budget of perpetuating some of the same "upsetting mistakes." Georgy Popov, Leningrad party boss, went even further and came flat out against the new regime's plan to return the control of heavy industry to Moscow direction from the local authority where Khrushchev had remanded...
...Kennedy did, Johnson has in mind a plan by which the President would only propose a temporary cut, leaving Congress with the power to act upon it. The Government's economists feel that the quick success of the 1964 tax cut, plus Congress' recent tolerance of budget deficits, makes the acceptance of such a proposal "very likely...