REPORT OF ATTENDANCE AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE CONFERENCE FOR FEDERAL MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM EXECUTIVES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04202A000200100004-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 4, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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ce emoran um ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
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? Director of Training
SUBJECT: Report of Attendance at the Brookings Institute
Conference for Federal Management: and Program
Executives
DATE: 4 April 1961
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1. The Conference was held at: the Williamsburg Lodge in
Williamsburg, Virginia. It began at 1700 on 4 March and ended
at 1230 on 17 March. The participants were quartered in the
Lodge, and all conference sessions were held in the Lodge.
2. The theme of the Conference was "Executive Leader-
ship in Democratic Government," and the conference pro-
gramming took full advantage of the wide scope inherent in the
theme. A list of the subjects discussed and the speakers who
presented the subjects is attached to this memorandum.
3. There were 25 "student" participants in the conference,
each representing a Federal Government Administration, Agency,
Commission, Department, or Bureau within a Department. A roster
of the participants is included in the attachment.
4. The Conference was managed and -- for the most part --
chaired by Mr. Roy W. Crawley, Senior Staff Member, Conference
Program on Public Affairs, The Brookings Institution. Other
Brookings personnel, who chaired single sessions, were Robert D.
Calkins and Walter G. Held.
5. The general organizational structure of the Conference
0830 - 0930 Critique -- a panel of two or three
participants critiqued the presentations and the discussions
of the preceding day.
0930
- 1030
Lecture
1030
- 1230
Seminar discussion with the lecturer as
the resource person -- usually the target.
1400 - 1500 Lecture
1500 - 1700 Seminar discussion
2000 - 2200 Reading and meetings of Study Groups.
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6. The required reading load was extremely heavy. The
material, however, had been carefully selected and organized;
the burden was not an onerous one, but it was time consuming.
Each of the Study Groups was composed of four or five partic-
ipants, and each group was assigned a subject upon which to
write and present a paper. Sample subjects: Headquarters-
Field Relationships, Factors Which Affect U.S. Leadership in
the World, the American Image Abroad, The Peace Corps.
7. My reactions to selected phases of the Conference pro-
gram are:
a. With perhaps three exceptions, the speakers were
well chosen; they were thoroughly knowledgeable in their fields,
they were skilled in presentation, and they were skillful] in
handling questions. A few of them were over-dedicated to show-
manship, but only one attempted to substitute showmanship for
substance. The men who spoke on Business and on Agriculture
are lobbyists, and their approaches were clearly biased. The
speaker on Labor spoke with the voice of labor. Several of
the speakers were obviously enamoured with their own private
theses. In general, however, the speakers were stimulating
and served very well the purpose of the Conference.
b. I was greatly impressed by the caliber of the
"student" participants in the Conference. Apparently they had
been selected -- in part, at least -- on the basis of their
general ability to reflect credit upon the component they rep-
resented. The group was heterogeneous from the point of view
of the kinds of administrative jobs the individuals did, but
it was homogeneous from the point of view of general intellec-
tual capability and adaptability to group participation. The
ages ranged from the mid-thirties to the late fifties; the
average probably was forty-five.
c. The Conference was planned and managed with out-
standing efficiency. The established program was followed
closely; sessions began and ended on schedule, and there were
no apparent logistical strains.
8. It is difficult to specify the benefits derived from
participation in the Conference. For me it was a stimulating
experience. It broadened the scope of my thinking, increased
my awareness and understanding of the basic problems of federal
operations, and heightened my respect for the men who solve
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these problems. To what extent these expansions will improve my
performance in my present and future duties, I cannot say. I
believe, however, that departure from any kind of parochialism
is a contagious virtue.
9. Again, it is difficult to specify the benefits that
the Agency derived from my participation in the Conference.
Whatever improvement I may make in my job performance is one
benefit, of course. Beyond that, perhaps there has been some
small gain in inter-agency amity. Perhaps the cumulative effect
of CIA representation in these Conferences has been a contri-
bution to increasing the respectability of the CIA image in
Washington.
10. In spite of the intangibility of the benefits, I
recommend that the Agency continue to send participants to
the Conferences. I further recommend that the participants
be selected -- In some part, at least -- on the basis of their
ability to reflect credit upon the Agency in a situation that
calls for intellectual activity, verbal skill, and adaptation
to group activity. Selection should not be limited to gener-
alists or to administrative persons, but specialists in the
technological or scientific areas should be selected only if
they have administrative responsibilities.
STATINTL
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EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP IN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
Conference for Federal Management and Program Executives
March 5-17, 1961
Williamsburg, Virginia
THE SUBJECTS AND THE SPEAKERS
The Role of the Individual in a Free Society
Henry King Stanford, President, Birmingham-Southern College
The Role of Government in a Free Society
Louis Hartz, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Communications, Propaganda and Foreign Affairs
John N. Hutchinson, Director, Press and Publications Division,
United States Information Agency
The Meaning of Communism
Harry Schwartz, Specialist in Soviet Affairs; Member, Editorial
Board, The New York Times
National Security
Robert C. Sprague, Chairman of the Board, Sprague Electric
Company
The Role of Business in Today's World
Rodney W. Markley, Jr., Manager, Washington Office, The Ford
Motor Company
Science and Society
Herman Finer, Professor of Political Science, The University
of Chicago
The Impact of Mass Media on the Formation and Control of Public Opinion
Robert Saudek, President, Robert Saudek Associates, Inc.
National Economic Policy
Gerhard Colm, Chief Economist, National Planning Association
Agriculture and Society
Roger Fleming, Secretary-Treasurer and Director, Washington
Office, American Farm Bureau Federation
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THE SUBJECTS AND THE SPEAKERS (continued)
The Role of Labor in Today's World
John Herling, Editor and Publisher, John Herling's Labor Letter
Leadership Needs in a Democratic Society
Richard D. Weigle, President, St. John's College
Power Structures and the Federal Executive
Wallace S. Sayre, Professor of Public Administration,
Columbia University
Legislative-Executive Relationships: The Role of the Congress
John Brademas, United States Representative from the Third
District of Indiana
Personnel Management in the Next Decade
Frederick J. Lawton, Commissioner, United States Civil
Service Commission
Behavior and Organization
James N. Mosel, Associate Professor of Psychology,
The George Washington University
International Challenge of Private Enterprise
Donald Maggin, Planning Director, Booz, Allen and Hamilton
International, Incorporated
Frontiers of Management
Arthur Naftalin, Associate Professor of Political Science,
The University of Minnesota
THE PARTICIPANTS
Whitney Ashbridge, Assistant Administrator for Construction,
Veterans Administration
Robert L. Bell, Director of Security, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
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Norman L. Christeller, Financial Management Officer, National
Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce
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THE PARTICIPANTS (continued)
Paul L. Evans, Director of Information, Tennessee Valley Authority,
Knoxville, Tennessee
William H. Fortenberry, Assistant to Comptroller, George Marshall
Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Huntsville, Alabama
Isaac E. Friedlander, Assistant to the Assistant Commissioner,
Office of Supply Operations, Federal Supply Service, General
Services Administration
Brigadier General William H. Harris, Chief, Personnel Division,
Office of the Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the
Army
Donald R. Johnson, Area Director, California Area, Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries, Department of the Interior
John H. Kennedy, Senior Staff Advisor, Plans and Policy Group,
Air Force Intelligence Center, Department of the Air Force
Earl G. Kunz, Chief Counsel, Chicago Operations Office, U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission, Argonne, Illinois
James L. McGraw, Assistant Manager for Manufacturing, Albuquerque
Operations Office, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
Charles B. MacLean, Administrative Officer, Bureau of Naval Personnel,
Department of the Navy
Lowell C. Martindale, Associate Deputy Regional Commissioner,
Management, Southwest Regional Office, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, Department of Justice, San Pedro, California
E. J. Overby, Director, Cotton Division, Agricultural Marketing
Service, Department of Agriculture
E. Edward Rizzo, Technical Assistant to the Assistant Chief for
Supply Management, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Department of
the Navy
Robert?C. Robinson, Regional Director for Urban Renewal, Region 5,
Housing and Home Finance Agency, Fort Worth, Texas
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THE PARTICIPANTS (continued)
Andrew E. Ruddock, Director, Bureau of Retirement and Insurance,
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Harold B. Siegel, Director, Operations Division, Office of Hearings
and Appeals, Social Security Administration, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare
C. Summer Spalding, Chief, Descriptive Cataloging Division, Library
of Congress
Nathanial Stewart, Director, Executive Development Program,
International Cooperation Administration
William M. Terry, Director, Office of International Relations,
Office of the Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife, Department of
the Interior
Donald I. Walker, Director, Licensee Compliance Division, Idaho
Operations Office, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Falls,
Idaho
Rear Admiral Henry J. Wuensch, Chief, Office of Personnel, U.S.
Coast Guard, Department of the Treasury
STATINTL
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