Word: nsc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President in history has given more attention to efficient organization and delegation of work in the executive branch. Under the Eisenhower reorganization, all major decisions funnel up to the President through a whole chart of special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration as a whole...
While President Eisenhower lay ill in Denver, the team that he had brought to Washington was carrying forward the executive department's business in a manner unprecedented in U.S. history. For 2½ hours the NSC, composed of key U.S. officials who deal with the total problem of defense, e.g., the Secretaries of State and Defense and the defense mobilizer, worked its way through a normal agenda. Next day, with the young (42) Vice President again sitting as chairman, the Cabinet met and pushed through the week's business. Out of the two meetings came a list...
Operating under this system, the Administration can get along for a considerable time without the President.* Fortunately, at the moment, there is no major crisis facing the Government. To keep up liaison between Denver and Washington, as the President recovers, the NSC and the Cabinet decided to send the President's White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams, to Denver. He arrived near week's end, and the staff arrangements for operation during the President's convalescence were complete...
...than did Harry Truman. Naturally, this is especially true in Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson's field, where Eisen hower operates with great self-confidence. Unlike President Truman, who preferred to have the National Security Council prepare a recommendation that he could adopt, Eisenhower prefers to have the NSC brief him in full, so that he can make up his own mind...
...Anderson should enjoy his new job. In I and Claudie one hobo says, "There is hardly anything that is not in my line . . . It is only when [a man] does the same thing over and over that his talents begin to wither and his spirits to fester up." The NSC's span of global problems is not likely to fester a man's spirits...