Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached him in a Paris hotel lobby, Jim Hagerty wept...
...permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams, Hagerty and the King of Morocco. He put in a half-hour's formal work on state papers, signed his name a dozen times, his initials once, attended to items that ranged from the month's NATO Council meeting through next year's federal budget...
Along with the endless daily flow of documents and visitors and decisions, plus weekly policy sessions of the Cabinet and the National Security Council, the year end brings to the presidency a heavy seasonal load: 1) drawing up the Administration's legislative program for the congressional session ahead, 2) preparing the massive federal budget for the coming fiscal year, 3) drafting January's State of the Union, budget and economic messages, and 4) briefing congressional leaders in advance on the Administration's planned requests for legislation and appropriations. In December 1957, with Sputnik still orbiting...
EVERY illness of the President teaches that one-man government in the United States is dangerous and that Cabinet government cannot long be delayed. The simplest solution lies in the formation of a Presidential Council, which would be created by law and would give the Chief Executive, to sit at his side, at least five persons who have been nominated by him and been confirmed by the Senate. These five men would be freed from the responsibility of administering any of the departments of the Executive branch, as Cabinet secretaries do today...
Miss Susan Olsen '58, Council president, said last night that the project may be repeated during spring recess...