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...head the State Department's new International Cooperation Administration, which would take over most of the work of Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. Having no man in mind, John Foster Dulles turned over the search for the policy-making executive to his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., and five days later headed north for a Duck Island vacation...
Under Secretary Hoover did not have to look far: his candidate was already in Washington serving as executive director of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch (the Hoover Commission), whose chairman happens to be the Under Secretary's father. One morning, just before a Cabinet meeting, ex-President Hoover slipped into the White House for a visit with Ike. When the Cabinet (including Dulles) met, it approved the Under Secretary's candidate: Cincinnati's John B. Hollister, 64, longtime law and golfing partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft...
Hollister first met the elder Hoover after World War I, helped him dispense relief in Poland and Lithuania. After World War II, Hollister served briefly with UNRRA. But to many foreign-aid supporters, the Hollister appointment sounded off key, not at all in harmony with Predecessors Paul Hoffman, Averell Harriman and Harold Stassen. Some of Stassen's top aides muttered that they would quit rather than work under Hollister. The Washington Post expressed "misgivings" based on 1) reports that a Hoover Commission task force will propose to atomize the foreign-aid setup, scattering the fragments among various departments...
...Herbert Hoover (Wed. 8 p.m., ABC). Speech on Government of the Future...
Despite this progress, the get-out-of-business program still has far to go, against plenty of opposition. Government agencies, the Hoover Commission recently found, are almost impossible to kill. "REA is an example . . . Although more than 90% of the nation's farms are electrified, the sponsors of the REA program foresee no end to the need for ever-increasing amounts of Government loans for rural electrification." Many another agency is dragging its feet. Probably the worst offenders are in the Defense Department, where empire builders try to justify their activities by crying "national security...