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George P. Baker '25, Dean of the Business School, has been appointed by President Nixon to the newly formed, fiveman Advisory Council on Executive Organization. Nixon made the announcement from his Key Biscayne White House Saturday...
...Council--which will be similar to the Hoover Commission appointed by President Truman--will undertake a thorough review of the organization of the executive branch and present recommendations for improving government effectiveness...
Baker said yesterday that President Nixon hoped that the Council would present new ways of running the government. "We'll be like a management consulting firm that is asked by a business to review procedures and recommend alternative approaches," Baker said...
Baker said that the council would offer suggestions but would have little direct influence. "It is like some of the other commissions; sometimes your advice is taken and sometimes it is totally ignored," Baker said...
Talking Points. As the preconference meetings continued, details of the U.S. "talking points" began to appear. Perhaps the most important of the points would be an effort to win full four-power agreement on the implementation of the November 1967 Security Council resolution, which postulated mutual recognition of sovereignty and Israeli withdrawal from areas conquered in the Six-Day War. Israel, according to the latest U.S. suggestion, would retain Syria's Gobn Heights and Arab Jerusalem, although Jordan would have certain rights in its former sector. The U.S. also envisages the following...