Hugh Heclo government policy collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
George Mason University
2400 Fenwick Library
Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library MS2FL
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Mieko Palazzo
Phone: (703) 993-2220
Fax: (703) 993-2669
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Hugh Heclo government policy collection, Collection #C0074, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.

Summary

Extent:
14 linear feet (29 boxes)
Creator:
Heclo, Hugh
Abstract:
Research materials relating to the executive branch of the United States federal government. Several presidential administrations beginning with the 1932 Roosevelt Administration are represented. Materials include documents pertaining to cabinet posts and functions, federal bureaus, foreign and domestic policy.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Hugh Heclo government policy collection, Collection #C0074, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.

Background

Scope and content:

Research materials relating to the executive branch of the United States federal government. Several presidential administrations beginning with the 1932 Roosevelt Administration are represented. Materials include documents pertaining to cabinet posts and functions, federal bureaus, foreign and domestic policy.

Doctrines of Presidential Management by Michael McGeary for meeting of Panel on Presidential Management, National Academy of Public Administration

Includes: the First Hoover Commission and the Managerial Presidency by Peri E. Arnold, Journal of Politics, 2/76; handwritten notes on "The Commission on Org of the Exec Br. of the Gov " Concluding Report"" May 1949

Includes a paper; "Administrative Literature and the Second Hoover Commission Reports" by James W. Fesler, Yale University, APSR 3/57

Includes a paper; " Temple University Survey of Federal Reorganization, Volume 1"

Finding Aid to NARS files titled; "Records of the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization 1953-1961 and hand-written notes

hand written notes on Office of Executive management

Includes copies of government papers specifically the final recommendations of The President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization (PAGCO)

Includes final summaries of PACGO accomplishments

Interview of Don K. Price by McGeary

includes 15 memos or summaries of memos leading up to the establishment of FEB's and a undated summary of the development of FEB's

notes on interview with Don K. Price regarding task force on reorganization in 1964

Memos from the Ash Council (Roy L. Ash) to the President, recommending 3 new Departments: Department of Human resources, Department of Community Development, and Department of Economic Growth and Productivity

includes memo on Organization for Foreign Economic Affairs

includes Executive Branch estimates of appropriations from 1901 to 1911 and a list of White House/Executive Branch personnel and salaries

a discussion of Nixon's "failure" to implement a reorganization

contains documents regarding Theodore Roosevelt

notes and documents to support a course on the President

news clippings regarding the office of the President

includes paper written by Herman M. Somers, "Coordinating the Federal Executive

Transcripts of interviews of Luther Gulick, Bryce Harlow, Thomas Cronin, Clifford, Burns, and Neustadt'

Prepared for Annual Meeting of APSA by Larry Berman

by Hugh Heclo

by Albert A. Hopkins

memorandum from The Assistant to The President to all Departments, Agencies and White House Staff

Discussion of Harry Truman's presidency

by Richard E. Meustadt for Annual meeting of APSA

Mr. Bell held several positions in the Truman administration

worked in BOB during Truman presidency

worked in BOB during Truman presidency

worked in BOB during the Truman

Secretary of the Army 1950- 1953

Memorandum regarding Mr. Truman's decision to create a 'Administrative Secretary position

Division of Administrative Management(Executive Office)structure, mission and personnel

Division of Administrative Management (Executive Office) structure, mission and personnel

Bureau of Budget self appraisal and recommendations for improvement

organization of the President's Executive Office

Division of Administrative Management, Bureau of Budget includes list of accomplishments

Division of Administrative Management

President's Committee on Management Improvement

Office of Management and Organization - reorganization within the Bureau of Budget

Bureau of Budget

Self study of Bureau of Budget and proposal to ask agencies to do management improvement studies

Survey of Organization and Staffing of the Bureau of the Budget (includes 29 specific recommendations.

only 1 document: Management Services Program Basic File

only 2 documents President Nixon's remarks on the 30th Birthday of the Bureau of Budget and suggested reply to press inquiry on a proposed Congressional investigation of BoB

Central Statistics Board

contains information on appropriations for the Office of the president 1914 - 1940

Hand written notes on Louis B'low

contents of National Archives and Records holdings on the Bureau of Budget

hand written notes and NARS index to historical documents stored at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

hand written notes and NARS index to historical documents stored at the Truman Library

hand written notes and NARS index to historical documents stored at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

hand written notes on material from Dwight D. Eisenhower Library regarding the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

notes regarding from contents some boxes in DDEL

Notes on how information is organized in John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and what is relevant to 1961 transition and organization of JFK White House

hand written notes from LBJ Library Files as well as a memo regarding the files relevant to study

printed list of historical documents in LBJ library

Hand written notes and printed transcript of Oral History Interview with David E. Bell from Truman library

memo concerning Louis Bronlow and Charles Merriam

Maxwell Rabb, Ann Whitman, Bradley Patterson, Dillion Anderson, Andrew Goodpastor Robert Bowie, Milton S. Eisenhower

Division of Administrative Management

Division of Administrative Management

planning for administrative units In Federal Agencies

proposal to establish administrative management units in all Federal executive agencies

Public Administration Service and Public Administration Clearing House

includes a monograph; "A Review of Organization and Methods Work in the Federal Government by Joseph D. Cooper

only 1 chart

2 charts

2 monographs: Options for Organizing the Administrative Management Function in the Executive Office of the President, and The President and Administrative Management

hand written notes

Executive Office of the President, Bureau of Budget

Harold D(ewey) Smith was director of Federal budget from 4/15/39 to 6/19/46; Notes on Financial Administration (under Smith's direction) in the Michigan State Government 2/1938

Pace was director of budget

Director of Bureau of Budget

in addition to the one dated copy, the file consists of undated hand written material

Policy Bites is a bi-monthly letter issued by The Urban Institute -the issue in file examines the budget process

Who's Who in the BOB

Keyerserling was on the staff of the Roosevelt Administration and was author and/or staff liaison for several important pieces (e.g. NLRA, NIRA) of "The New Deal" legislation.

includes Executive Office internal memorandum regarding Transition

includes memorandum summarizing Executive Office staff meetings

Includes staff paper prepared for the President: Instrument of Foreign Policy Coordination,Program Integration and Coordinated Foreign Policy, Organizational Problems and Issues in Foreign Affairs, Leadership To The Secretary of State -- Again, Program Integration as a Means Toward Coordination of Foreign Policy in the Presidential Perspective, Major Problems of Personnel Management in the Department of State

Executive Office internal memos

Internal memos between President Johnson and his advisors

Memo's of Instruction, request for BOB staff studies and memo regarding "news leak"

includes notes of advice to LBJ from President Eisenhower(11/23/63)

Includes summary of a 10/13/65 meeting between LBJ and Eisenhower on a variety of topics and an example of staff work.

Includes an indication that President Johnson consulted President Eisenhower

Schedule for the night, number of antelope delivered to ranch, etc.

includes Staff background notes for President Appointments

also contains a summary of Mr. Stein's Federal work history

The paper focuses on the White House and Executive Office organization structure was prepared by the Brookings Institution and provides a history of transitions from 1939.

NOT a history; the papers record discussion to create a history

also material related contains research sources

contains written finding aid to LBJ papers

includes phone logs of Mr. Coy Director of Budget

contains notes and other material regarding FDR Truman Library and other sources of i

papers related to Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion and Economic Council]

a National Archives and Records Service pamphlet describing the holdings at the library

a catalogue pamphlet published by University Publications of America, Inc. describing its products and prices

Instructions from the President on how he wants staff work to be done

a National Archives and Records Service pamphlet describing the holdings at the library

a National Archives and Records Service pamphlet describing the holdings at the library

a National Archives and Records Service pamphlet describing the holdings at the library

Publication of the National Archives and Records Service, documents listed in the publication are available at the library

Executive office of the President

the publication included an article; "The Harry S. Truman Library by Miss Betty Herscher

also included is the Statement of Elmer B. Staats before the Committee on Government Operations (1/7/66)

a reprint of a magazine article by Richard H. Immerman

includes an article Eisenhower as an Activist President, by Fred I. Greenstein

transitions

by James L. Sundquist

Article by Phillip D. Lagerquist, "The Harry S. Truman Library - - A New Research Center for the Middle West

Correspondence to and from Sydney Stein, Jr.

Bulk of material in calendar year 1943

Mr. Ink served in policy making positions under 7 Presidents he was influential in establishing OMB, EPA and the Postal Service as a government corporation

Presidential Advisor Truman - Reagan

3 separate interviews

Interviewees were Charles Murphy, James Webb, David Stone, and Richard Neustadt

file only contains a note of Mrs. Whitman's expenses

Stephen Horn DID these interviews of White House personnel during DDE presidency

Correspondence related to the study of the President and Administrative Management

bills for photocopy from Presidential Libraries

includes 3 monographs: Partnership for Research (describes role of Sherman Adams in Eisenhower administration, John Foster Dulles' "Letter of Gift", Party Politics in the Eisenhower Administration

I.M.Dester was a senior associate at the Carngie Endowment for International Peace and participated in the study of the President and Administrative Management

Cal Mackenzie of Colby College participated in the study of the President and Administrative Management

Author James L. Cochrane, University of South Carolina

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

Memo entitled "Staffing The President-Elect

Council of Economic Advisers

telephone conversation with Dave Davis, Exec. Dir. Mass. Port Authority

Ash Council

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization

7/28/80 document summarizes material on organization during Eisenhower administration

Letter from Eisenhower to Nixon and reply concerning transfer of power to Vice President in the event of Eisenhower's incapacity to fulfill office

DDE = D D Eisenhower

photo copies of diary

Dwight D Eisenhower

Advice from Jim Hagerty to Eisenhower on how the Office of the President should function in the last 2 years of his term

Senator Jackson's subcommittee dealt with "National Policy Machinery"

BOB documents regarding management improvement in the executive Branch and the Executive Office of the President; also includes an undated document summarizing the development of the EOP organization

Research paper by John William McKenzie Barber

includes several documents regarding the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

9/24/46 document forwards a then classified summary of US-USSR relations

Charles S. Murphy, David Stonwe, James Webb, and Richard Neustadt

Charles S. Murphy, David Stonwe, James Webb, and Richard Neustadt

Taft Commission on White House Organization

Assorted papers: Harlod Smith and Truman, Breuer as informal asst. to FDR in 1933, How the DDE White House worked, Stein's government service, Appleby on relationship of Tugwell and Hopkins to FDR

by Richard L. Cole and David A. Caputo

by Fred I. Greenstein

by David R. Cameron for Brookings Institute

Rosemary Stevens, no date, appears to be an address, last reference dated 1975

by Aaron Wilavsky

also included in the folder The expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis by David R. Cameron, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 72; and "Qualifications and Entitlement Matrix: Germany and the US in the Present Era, 1979

by John Zysman

y Joseph A Pechman

Also included is a research paper about the German health system, completed under The German Marshall Fund, regarding the health system, Chapter headings: The Nature, Sources and Limits of Physicians' Power; The Corporatist Context of Physician Politics; The Sources of Collective Power; The Nature and Sources of Discretionary Power; Limits on Collective Power - Countervailing Organizations; Limits on Collective Power - Reimbursement Methods; Limits on Discretionary Power - Economic Monitoring; Limits on Discretionary Power - The Board of Control Doctors; The Impact of Limits on Professional Power; Conclusion - Lessons for the United States

by Colin Crouch

by Debora A. Stone

by Deborah A. Stone

by Deborah A. Stone

by Douglas A Hibbs, Jr. and Henrik Jess Madsen

by Stein Kuhnle

Jens Alber

Chapter 10 The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America, Semi-final Draft by Arnold J. Heidenheimer

by Jens Alber

by David R. Cameron, Yale University

by Barbara N. McLennan, published by Duxbury Press

also included is an undated interview by Heclo

Hand written notes

Also included undated interview with Goodpastor Whitman, Saulnier, Gray, Staats, and Burns by HH

a Planning Document published by The National Planning Association

by Richard E. Neustadt

by Gustave A. Moe

also included is a transcription of a short exchange between Congressman Phillips and Lawton regarding the significant increase in Truman's office budget

administrative management activities of BOB, post-WW II federal government reorganization activities; US involvement in formulating UN Secretariat

While the document is not dated, it was written by Roy Ash and Mr. Reagan or Mr. Carter if he was to re-elected.

by A. Nelson

Political Science Quarterly book reviewed, Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared Naval War by Thomas A. Bailey and Paul B. Ryan 1979

Political Science Quarterly

notes from a group interview

tapes 2 and 3 missing from collection

2nd tape missing from collection

Biographical / historical:

Born in Marion Ohio on March 10, 1943 Hugh Heclo is a recognized expert on American democratic institutions as well as the international development of modern welfare states. He has received national awards for his books including Comparative Public Policy; A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington; and Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden. Professor Heclo is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he has served in the White House and as a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He chaired the Ford Foundation research advisory committee, which published The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future, and is co-author of the 1998 Urban Institute volume, The Government We Deserve. Hugh Heclo is senior editor and contributor to the 2003 volume, Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America and a member of the Scholars Council advising the Librarian of Congress. Also in 2003, he wrote Ronald Reagan and the American Public Philosophy, chapter one in The Reagan Presidency and the chapter, The Political Ethos of George W. Bush, in The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment. In 2002 he received the American Political Science Association's John Gaus Award honoring exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Each year, Heclo teaches introductory courses on Democracy and on American Government, and he leads interdisciplinary senior seminars on the Philosophy of History and on Religion and Politics in America.

Acquisition information:
Collection donated by Hugh Heclo in 2005.
Processing information:

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed in February 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged chronologically by folder title and subject.