Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charged (with Harry S. Truman grinning happily on the platform beside him) that President Eisenhower was guilty of buck-passing and ducking the responsibilities of leadership: "Who's in charge here, anyway? Who, in this businessman's Administration, keeps the store...
...when Eisenhower entered the White House, 4,300,000 individuals were covered under the Truman loyalty and security programs. Under these systems only 414 employees had been suspended as risks from 1947 to 1952. For most civil servants, "reasonable doubt" of loyalty was required before they could be suspended, but a special Congressional order had invested heads of certain sensitive agancies with broader powers of "summary dismissal." Approximately 800,000 civilians in the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense, the armed forces, the State Department, C.I.A., E.C.A., and the Voice of America were covered by this latter "security" requirement...
Under mounting public criticism, the Truman Administration set up the Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security to study the whole loyalty system. In April 1952, the Committee recommended that the government establish one encompassing program based on "suitability" or general fitness for federal employment. Such a criterion would have regularized the security procedure and enabled the government to suspend an employee without undue damage to his personal reputation...
...addition, the Eisenhower order eliminated the Loyalty Review Board, a commission of twenty leading lawyers and educators set up by President Truman to hear appeals on security firings. The abolition of the Board, however, lessened rather than increased the uniformity of government security procedures, as each department head was given the sole responsibility over the security of his office. This lack of central organization led to confused situations like that in which Wolf Ladejinsky was cleared by the State Department and then suspended by the Department of Agriculture on tenuous grounds...
...subversive issue fairly and efficiently. Because he was a military hero honored with deep national affection, it was hoped that he could not only overcome McCarthy-inspired hysteria with the force of his moral leadership, but also that he could lift government service from the level at which Truman's stubborn devotion to his political friends had left it. Public criticism and court decisions have since forced the Administration to soften some of its initial harsh policies, but the fact remains that the President, like his predecessor, has failed to use his office to create a climate in which government...