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...Government is now responsible for the medical care of 30 million Americans. Cost last year: $4.15 billion. In the opinion of the Hoover Commission, that money is ill-spent by 26 overlapping, badly organized agencies and 66 administrative units. To clear up the mess, a task force of doctors.and administrative experts made stringent suggestions to the Hoover Commission.* In somewhat tempered form, the suggestions went to Congress last week. Main points...
...safeguarding the nation's security. "The FBI has known for years that Matusow was a squalid liar" says TIME . . . Our entire security program and the morality of the men who administer it, and the philosophy behind it, should be subjected to painstaking investigation and reappraisal. J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General Brownell should welcome such an examination...
Time was when the U.S. bureaucracy measured its girth in red tape. Nowadays the proper measure is paper (only a few yards of red tape are still used each year, mainly to bind treaties). This week a Hoover Commission task force estimated that the Government's paper work is costing the taxpayers $4 billion a year. By economizing in carbon copies, cutting down on gobbledygook and other reforms, the task force reckoned the Government could save a tidy $255 million annually...
...chief correspondence investigator, the Hoover group wisely chose tall and talented Mona Sheppard, who has been trying for years to simplify and improve the style of Government letters, and to reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...
This week the new Hoover Commission, which has been authorized to survey the whole range of executive-branch activity, sent to the Congress its first report on reorganization of the U.S. Government. Its main recommendation: that more politically appointed, non career executives should be placed in positions that call for making and defending public policies. Herbert Hoover's commission of seven Republicans and five Democrats recognizes the damage that can be done when an incoming Administration is hamstrung by civil service rules protecting policymakers who are against its general program and outlook...