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Landis calls for legislation authorizing the President to propose "reorganization plans" that would go into effect automatically unless vetoed by a resolution of both houses of Congress. He urges creation of machinery to coordinate the agencies and fit their activities into the administration-in short, to make the independent agencies...
Landis' proposals will doubtless run into opposition on Capitol Hill. In setting up the agencies, beginning with the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887, Congress deliberately insulated them from presidential control. The President names the members, but once appointed they have tenure for at least five years. In 1937 Congress...
As for John F. Kennedy, he liked the Landis Report, appointed Landis a "special assistant" to work up detailed legislative proposals to be submitted to the new Congress.
* In November, at the very time he was digging dirt for his report, Landis was unsuccessfully trying to land a job as president of the Air Line Pilots Association with the argument that, while he had never been a pilot, he had been chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and...
(3 of 10) been criticizing for years. As the newly appointed White House staffer charged with drawing up proposals to reform the agencies, Landis plans to draft a whole regiment of legislation to push through his changes. The new Administration has a great opportunity to free business to move faster...