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Even his friends know Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst as a very tough guy. As a campaign organizer for both Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon last year, Kleindienst bruised the feelings of a good many Republican leaders. Supporting the appointment of his fellow Arizonan before a Senate committee in January, Senator Goldwater observed that "he has a quality that is badly needed in this country: toughness...
Including the Washroom. Kleindienst lived up to his reputation last week with a memorandum that he circulated to each of the Justice Department's 1,050 Washington lawyers. As part of an efficiency experiment, Kleindienst ordered all staff attorneys to submit detailed daily reports of their working day. Starting this week, the lawyers will record their activities on time sheets. At the end of each day, the data must be transferred to a second form on which will appear the total amount of time spent on every activity, whether it be visits to the washroom or a plea before...
...Kleindienst's memo indicated that the main purpose of the exercise is to impress Congressmen, who each year are skeptical when the department tries to prove that it needs money to hire more lawyers. "The long-term effect, if time is accurately recorded," said Kleindienst, "will be a relief of individual pressure through provision of adequate personnel and resources to handle our work...
...study were to last a year, it would cost Justice 66,000 man-hours, or $534,000. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid was amused by a time-sheet category called "de minimis time," which is supposed to include all minor interruptions. "Computers read Latin already," quipped Sevareid, who described Kleindienst as "a new Lochinvar" riding a computer instead of a white horse and trying to rescue the Government from inefficiency-a goal that has eluded many others in the past...
PRESIDENT Johnson 179,889 Goldwater 189,742 U.S. SENATOR Fannin (R) 189,156 Elson (D) 173,188 GOVERNOR Goddard (D) 177,147 Kleindienst...