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- Title
Reflections On Watergate: Lessons for Public Administration.
- Authors
Sundquist, James L.
- Abstract
The article focuses on public administration. The literature of public administration is shot through with the doctrine of the strong executive. Indeed, until very recently, there was not even any rival doctrine. One can reread the works written before the late 1960s by the men who have represented the mainstream of thinking in the profession. Every writer was for a strong presidency. The Brownlow Committee on Administrative Management, of which Luther Gulick was a member, applied that doctrine to the executive branch of the U.S. government. Its object was to make the President the single directing executive authority by giving him in an executive office of the President the staff assistance he needed for that purpose. The plan was adopted, the office created, and then those who sought to aggrandize the President could pursue their mission from the inside. William Carey, a member of the Executive Office staff almost from its beginning, wrote of that mission a generation later in words Gulick would have approved: the object of a presidential staff was to help the President attain command and control.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC administration; GOVERNMENT agencies; PRESIDENTS of the United States; EXECUTIVE departments; PRESIDENTIAL staff
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1974, Vol 34, Issue 5, p453
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/975092