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...administrator. Ackley now talks with the President at least three times daily, sends him a daily stream of communications, meets regularly with Cabinet members. He has been helping to cull the 15 presidential task-force reports for legislative recommendations, also serves with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon on the troika that advises Johnson on fiscal policy...
Next things first: President Johnson spent most of Christmas week at his Texas ranch, working over the budget for fiscal 1966, which begins next July 1. His constant companion was Budget Director Kermit Gordon, whom Johnson considers one of the two ablest nonCabinet members of his Administration (the other: Foreign Relations Adviser McGeorge Bundy...
...from the White House to all department heads last week went the word to "economize, economize." The President huddled for many hours with Budget Director Kermit Gordon, searching for ways to keep fiscal 1965 requests just below the sinister $100 billion mark. The President ran the gamut of foreign affairs problems in talks with several advisers. He called in House leaders, told them to put the medicare and aid-to-Appalachia bills at the top of their priority lists...
...presidential jet en route to Texas. At week's end, when Johnson announced a lower 1964 deficit and a greater budget cut than earlier estimates, there was, typically, no sign of the man who had done most of the work and made many of the cuts possible: Kermit Gordon, 48, Director of the Budget...
Students charge that President Abram Sachar violated an administration promise when he independently instituted the "open door" rule. They point to assurances in December by Kermit Morrissey, Brandeis Dean of Students, that under-graduates would be consulted before any change in the parietal rules was made...