Word: gellhorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Accounting Office and The Bureau of the Budget -- both these agencies have already transcended their simple accounting duties. They now deal with problems of efficiency among federal administrative bodies, such as preventing overlapping. Gellhorn wants the GAO and Budget Bureau to increase the scope of their work...
...Walter Gellhorn, a pioneer in administrative law, proposed last night that three federal agencies be organized to handle citizens' complaints of abuses by the government...
...second of three Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, Gellhorn, a professor of Law at Columbia University, said that congressmen now handle the bulk of citizens' grievances -- over 200,000 a year. But, he argued, they are not in a position to criticize the government quickly, impartially, and effectively...
What is needed, Gellhorn said, is a coordinated system of criticism. He advocated that three government offices be used...
...Gellhorn said, each federal agency must also police itself. "Outsiders' denunciation of botched work can never be as significant as anti-botchery efforts inside administrative ranks...