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¶Ordered Budget Director Percival Brundage to release a total of $177 million in appropriations previously frozen by the White House for commitment under the omnibus housing act of 1957. The act provided a total of $1,740,000,000 for various home-building programs, a sum that President Eisenhower...
At each conference, the involved department argued its case, Budget Director Percival Brundage gave cost estimates and advice, Sherman Adams offered pithy guidance, and Richard Nixon summed up the discussions. He used President Eisenhower's recent Oklahoma City speech-which laid down the rule that nonessential spending must give...
At his office at 8 o'clock the next morning he spent an hour discussing the Mutual Assistance program with Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Then he ran an outsized (62 persons) National Security Council meeting, lunched with...
The list of those present was almost a Washington Who's Who. It included Brig. General Robert Cutler '16, Special Assistant to the President and toastmaster for the occasion; C. Douglas Dillon '31, Undersecretary of State and chairman of the Program; Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy '25; Percival F. Brundage...
After the Russians got their Sputnik into its orbit, an Administration official said he felt an urge to "strangle" Budget Director Percival Brundage. But the Administration has budgeted for Vanguard all the funds that the men who run the project asked for ($110 million so far). And that stock villain...