coordination in the executive branch plus analysis of attempts that have been made to overcome the problem.' Stanley, Timothy W. with H. H. Ransom. The National Security Council. Harvard Defense Policy Seminar Serial No. 104, Jan. 12, 1957. A discussion of the origins and functions of the National Security Council. 2. ARTICLES A. PRESIDENCY AND THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE Bailey, Stephen K. The President and his political executives. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 307, September 1956: 24-36. Cater, Douglass. Loneliest job in a crowded White House. Reporter, v. 20, June 25, 1959: 11-16. This article concerns the White House staff and the Executive Office of the President, the extent to which they have grown and the perceptibly changing influence they exert on policymaking. Clark, G. Edward. Executive branch of the government: dynamics in a cloister. Foreign Service Journal, v. 34, February 1957: 22-23, 48. "The Bureau of the Budget and its role in coordinating the formulation of foreign policy." Driggs, Don. W. The President as chief educator on foreign affairs. Western Political Quarterly, v. 11, December 1958: 813-819. Discusses the President's responsibility to educate both Congress and the people on the Nation's duties in the field of foreign affairs. Measures the accomplishments of the last few Presidents in this task. Economics of national defense; a symposium. Air Force, v. 40, September 1957: 56-70. Contents: National need versus personal wish; fiscal policy hamstrings defense policy; economics of manpower; unification and new concepts needed; organizing efficiently for national defense. Fairman, Charles. The President as Commander-in-Chief. Journal of Politics, v. 11, February 1949: 145-170. Gibson, Rankin M. The President's inherent emergency powers. Federal Bar Journal, v. 12, October 1951: 107–151. "The legal background of President Truman's emergency measures since the start of hostilities in Korea is traced in this article." Graham, George. The Presidency and the Executive Office of the President. Journal of Politics, v. 12, November 1950: 599–621. Grundstein, Nathan D. Presidential subdelegation of administrative authority in wartime. George Washington Law Review, v. 15, April 1947: 247-283; v. 16, April 1948: 301-341; and v. 16, June 1948: 478-507. Gumz, Donald G. The Bureau of the Budget and defense fiscal policy. U.S. Naval Institute proceedings, v. 85, April 1959: 80-89. "This paper was intended to be a castigation of high-handed and arbitrary methods of budgetary control utilized by the Budget Bureau in a selfdesignated role of judge and executioner for all programs and plans requiring Federal expenditure. The author *** has found that while the methods used are to some extent arbitrary, the role of judge and executioner is by no means self-imposed." Hobbs, Edward H. The President and administration-Eisenhower. Public Administration Review, v. 18, Autumn 1958: 306-313. This article concerns President Eisenhower as an administrator. It discusses the organization of his staff agencies, particularly those in the executive office, and how he uses these agencies. Hyman, Sydney. Cabinet's job as Eisenhower sees it. New York New York "Certain tasks can and should be delegated, says an observer, but no President can escape the strain of his solitary role as political leader and decision maker." Irish, Marian D. The organization man in the Presidency. Journal of Politics, v. 20, May 1958: 259-277. Criticism of the way the Presidential office has developed under President Eisenhower. Says the author, "Relying more and more upon the collective judgment of his staff, the President has virtually ceased to make decisions on his own." Lisagor, Peter. How our foreign policy is made. New York Times magazine, Sept. 28, 1958: 7, 57-59. "Elaborate machines have been designed to aid the President in forming policy, but in actual practice, says a reporter, it is usually devised by Secretary Dulles." Longaker, R. P. President as international leader. Law and Contemporary Problems, v. 21, Fall 1956: 735-752. McClure, W. Presidency and world affairs: mobilization of assistance. Journal of Politics, v. 11, February 1949: 206-217. Merriam, Robert E. The Bureau of the Budget as part of the President's staff. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 307, September 1956: 15-23. Murphy, Charles J. V. Washington and the world. Fortune, v. 55, January 1957: 77-83, 210-220. How U.S. foreign relations are conducted; much emphasis on the large part President Eisenhower takes in the matter. Murphy, Charles J. V. The White House since Sputnik. Fortune, v. 57, January 1958: 98-101, 228-232. An assessment of the President's and the administration's reactions to the Soviet satellites and Soviet technological-military power. "When you have worked out a good sound plan *** the soundest policy is to stand by it. This is Eisenhower's guiding philosophy. He is confident that his long-term military program can meet the Soviet challenge." Neustadt, Richard E. Presidency and legislation: the growth of central clearance. American Political Science Review, v. 48, September 1954: 641-671. Neustadt, Richard. Presidency and legislation: planning the President's program. American Political Science Review, v. 49, December 1955: 980-1021. Nitze, Paul H. The modern President as a world figure. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 307, September 1956: 114-123. Pear, R. H. The American Presidency under Eisenhower. Political Quarterly, v. 28, January-March 1957: 5–12. An analysis of the way in which President Eisenhower has shaped the American Presidential office. President's board of consultants on foreign intelligence activities. Department of State Bulletin, v. 34, Feb. 27, 1956: 340-341. Stuart, G. H. Presidential control of foreign policy. Current History, v. 22, April 1952: 207-210. "The powers and functions of the President as the sole maker of foreign policy." Truman, Harry S. My view of the Presidency. Look, v. 22, Nov. 11, 1958: 25-31. "The blunt-spoken former President warns that the world's greatest office must not be tampered with. A chief executive, he declares, 'must have the broadest powers to act promptly in an emergency.'' B. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD Adams, Ware. The Policy Planning Staff. American Foreign Service Journal, September 1947: 7-9. Alsop, Joseph, and Stewart Alsop. How our foreign policy is made; National Security Council. Saturday Evening Post, v. 221, Apr. 30, 1949: 30-31+. Anderson, Dillon. The President and national security. Atlantic monthly, v. 197, January 1956: 42-46. "The National Security Council came into being less than 10 years ago; it is, as Dillon Anderson says, 'a relatively new mechanism in our Government,' and one which has been greatly amplified under President Eisenhower. *** Gives us an objective, reassuring account of how it functions today." Bresica, Peter F. The National Security Council: integration of American foreign policy. Columbia Journal of International Affairs, v. 4, Spring 1950: 74-77. Cutler, Robert. The development of the National Security Council. Foreign Affairs, v. 34, April 1956: 441-458. "A former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs analyzes the work of the Council during the first 3 years of the Eisenhower administration." Fischer, J. Mr. Truman's politburo. Harper's, v. 202, June 1951: 29-36. Deals with the National Security Council. How Ike makes the big decisions. U.S. News and World Report, v. 40, Apr. 20, 1956: 30-32. This article describes the workings of the National Security Council, the agency the author of this article calls the "super cabinet." Javits, Jacob K. Advisory Council on National Security. Remarks in the Senate, Congressional Record [daily ed.] v. 105, Mar. 25, 1959: 4622-4623. Introductory remarks in connection with introduction of joint resolution "to establish an Advisory Council on National Security, consisting of all living ex-Presidents *** and 25 other leading citizens. *** The bipartisan membership of the council is to consist of citizens from the professions, 47597-593 public, service, management, labor, agriculture, the sciences, education [etc.]." Kintner, William R. Organizing for conflict: a proposal. Orbis, v. 2, Summer 1958: 155-174. "The difficulties in the present National Security Council and Operations Coordinating Board system of making and implementing policy, together with suggestions for a revised system that would include the new feature of an independent operations review." Kirkpatrick, H. P. Advisers or policymakers: the National Security Lay, James S., Jr., National Security Council's role in the U.S. security Organization and functions of the National Security Council. Melbourne, Roy M. Coordination for action. Foreign Service Journal, v. 35, March 1958: 25-29. Description of the operation of the Operations Coordinating Board of the Department of State. Mendez, Louis G., Jr. The Soldier and national security policy. Army Information Digest, v. 14, January 1959: 32-39. Describes the functions of the Operations Coordination Board, which is part of the National Security Council structure, especially as they relate to military aspects as carried on in the Defense Department and the Army. Millis, Walter. The policymakers. New York Herald Tribune. March 9, 1954. "***holds that President Eisenhower expects the National Security Council to bring up a considered series of decisions***,' but that the result has been an uneasy compromise of incompatibles, unexplained to the public at large ***" Morgenthau, Hans J. Can we entrust defense to a committee? New York Times magazine, June 7, 1959: 9, 62-66. "Our cold war strategy board-the National Security Council-is, by its very nature, says a critic, given to excessive compromise and the dilution of executive responsibility.' Operations Coordinating Board established by President. Department of State Bulletin, v. 29, Sept. 28, 1953: 420-422. Phillips, Cabell. The super-cabinet for our security. New York Times Magazine, Apr. 4, 1954: 14-15+. Deals with the National Security Council. Planning board to assist National Security Council. Department of State bulletin, v. 28, Apr. 13, 1953: 530. President transfers OCB to National Security Council; White House announcement with Executive order. Department of State Bulletin, v. 36, Mar. 25, 1957: 504-506. Reston, James. The anonymous advisers. New York Times, June 26, 1958: 16. "Little news is given out on vital work of President's major aids on policy. Includes comments on extent to which National Security Council actually is used in policy-making." The Security Council at work: the Commander-in-Chief's group of Stringer, William H. The National Security Council. In extension of remarks of Thomas J. Lane. Congressional Record [daily ed.], v. 101, Jan. 26, 1955: A424-A426. A report on the activities of the National Security Council, with reference to President Eisenhower's thinking in regard to the agency. Wyeth, George A., Jr. The National Security Council: concept of operations; organization; actual operations. Journal of International Affairs, v. 8, No. 2, 1954: 185-195. C. THE STATE DEPARTMENT 1. BOOKS Barron, Bryton. Inside the State Department; a candid appraisal of the bureaucracy. New York, Comet Press Books [1956]. 178 p. (A Reflection book.) The author, who served in the Department of State for 26 years, writes "about practices and attitudes in the Department, as seen at firsthand." He believes that the State Department "has become a freewheeling, almost independent branch of government, a petty sovereign state, far closer in spirit to chancelleries abroad than to the grassroots of America." Beal, John Robinson. John Foster Dulles; a Biography. New York Harper 1957. 331 p. Gives some information, here and there, about key participants in important security policy decisions. Childs, James R. American foreign service; with a foreword by Joseph C. Grew. New York, H. Holt [1948]. 261 p. Describes the Foreign Service and the internal organization and operation of U.S. diplomatic missions. Graham, Stuart H. The Department of State. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1949. 517 p. "Attempts to present a brief but comprehensive history of the organization, personnel, and procedure of the Department of State from its earliest beginnings" to 1949. Hulen, Bertrand D. Inside the Department of State. New York, Whittlesey House, 1939. 327 p. "Chapter XIV. Relations with Congress, p. 232–250. Congress has long balked State Department efforts to maintain good Anglo-American relations. This ended with the beginning of World War I. Divided jurisdictions of foreign affairs between Executive and Congress has pointed up to State Department the need for closer cooperation and better relations. ***** McGhee, George C. Coordinating foreign aid. [Address delivered before the American Political Science Association in Chicago, Ill., on Dec. 29, 1948] [Washington] Department of State [Division of Publications, Office of Public Affairs, 1948]. 22 p. |