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...comes to Littauer with an amazingly diversified background in his field. Most recently a vice-president of the Ford Foundation, Price has worked for the first Hoover Commission, the Budget Bureau, the Defense Department, the Central Housing Committee and the Public Administration Clearing House. These activities have led to books and articles on such diverse subjects as foreign policy, the relationship of government and science, the merits of parliamentary and presidential government, and the city manager system of urban administration...
Next came the first Hoover Commission, with Price serving as personal assistant to Herbert Hoover in his report on the Presidency and the Executive Branch. It was an "interesting period," says Price, "and I was around when the report was being fought over and I enjoyed watching." He probably underestimates his own role here, for he played an important part in drafting certain sections of the Commission findings...
...termination of the Hoover Commission, Price returned to Chicago and the Public Administration Clearing House, but he soon found himself back in Washington, as deputy chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Board. Government and Science, published in 1954, is to an extent, the result of this experience and reflects Price's continuing concern with the relationship of the technical specialist and the general politician. Along with Professors Carl Kaysen, I. Bernard Cohen and Jerome Bruner, he is working on a seminar, Science and Public Policy, for the School of Public Administration...
...draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. After that he went to the Versailles Conference, officially as a secretary but unofficially as hearing aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who was growing increasingly deaf. In 1921 Herter returned to the U.S. as secretary to Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover in the Harding Administration...
...State, Herter has made few headlines in a job where headlines are likely to come only after major gaffes (as Herter's Under Secretary predecessor, Herbert Hoover Jr., found out more than once). Herter has won Secretary Dulles' increasing confidence, in the last year has been handed day-to-day direction of U.S. policy at the Geneva disarmament and nuclear-test conferences, in the critical Middle East and in Indonesia. He knows his job and he likes it, and for however long Foster Dulles may be gone. Chris Herter, subject always to the will of the President...