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Harvard's watchdog is the alumni elected Board of Overseers. Overseer visiting committees are the only outside groups that regularly inspect all sections of the University. Whenever a serious protest arise, over the de-emphasis of Geography for example, it is the Board of Overseers that investigation...
...course, the Overseers are more than investigators, for they stand at the top of the entire University administration, having the final decision on all "major policies" and all permanent appointments. But the watchdog role remains the Overseers' greatest contribution. The Board carefully considers the appointments and policies put before it, but it invariably approves the proposals...
...week that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught the strong scent of "business as usual" in some corners of the Defense Department's planning...
...Senator Harry S. Truman out of obscurity in World War II. Freshman Johnson was not unprepared for the job. During the war he had run an efficient House investigating committee which worked much like the celebrated Truman Committee without drawing its headlines. Johnson believed that a congressional watchdog should be something of a seeing-eye guide for blind bureaucracy: his committee marshaled its facts in private, presented them to the appropriate Government officials, and usually received thanks for its suggestions...
...special advantage" amendments (such as Kenneth Wherry's clause guaranteeing reasonable profits to each joint of the meat industry) which had been written in by the Senate. Congress provided that most of the bill's authority must end June 1951, and set up a joint Senate-House watchdog committee to keep an unwinking eye on the President...