LETTER TO HONORABLE RICHARD M. HELMS FROM MORTIMER M. CAPLIN

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• Publication Date: September 19, 1969
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President
MORTIMER M. CAPLIN
Caplin & Drysdale
Vice President
BERNARD L. GLADIEUX
Director. Knight & Gladieux
Treasurer
WESTON RANKIN
Price Waterhouse & Co.
Board of Directors
MARVER H. BERNSTEIN
Dean. Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
JOHN T. CONNOR
President. Allied Chemical Corporation
JOHN J. CORSON
Consultant, Washington, D.C.
LLOYD H. ELLIOTT
President
The George Washington University
KERMIT GORDON
President
The Brookings Institution
EDWARD GUDEMAN
Limited Partner, Lehman Brothers
NAJEEB HALABY
President
Pan American World Airways, Inc.
LEWELLYN A. JENNINGS
Chairman of the Board, Riggs
National Bank of Washington, D.C.
HOWARD JOHNSON
President
Howard Johnson Company
ROBERT S. KERR, JR.
Kerr, Davis, Roberts, Heimann,
Irvine & Burbage
NEWTON N. MINOW
Liebman, Williams, Bennett,
Baird & Minow
DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN
(on leave)
SAMUEL H. ORDWAY, JR.
Foundation Trustee
WINSTON PAUL
Trustee
JOHN A. PERKINS
Chairman of the Board
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
WILLIAM RUDER
Ruder & Finn, Inc.
WALLACE S. SAYRE
Professor of Public Law &
Government, Columbia University
CHARLES L. SCHULTZE
The Brookings Institution
University of Maryland
KATHRYN H. STONE
Washington Center for
Metropolitan Studies
CYRUS VANCE
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
WATSON W. WISE
Industrialist
Honorary Vire Presidents
MURRAY SEASONGOOD
Paxton & Seasongood
CHARLES P. TAFT
Taft, Lavercombe & Fox
Executive Director
JEAN J. COUTURIER
Deputy Director
MILTON B. MILLON
Assistant Director
ADA R. KIMSEY
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September 19, 1969
Honorable Richard M. Helms
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Helms:
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We are pleased to invite your nominations for.the League's 16th
Career Service Awards Program -- a program where we yearly honor
and present awards to outstanding federal employees.
The program's impact and importance have brought generous praise
from Presidents and other national leaders, and have resulted in
favorable attention to the award winner and his agency. We know
that you will want to give your personal attention to naming your
candidates.
The enclosed announcement details the program. Nominations of
both National Office and field employees are welcomed.
John D. Roth, Director of the U.S. Civil Service Commission's
Office of Incentive Systems, will deliver these announcements
in quantity to your personnel office. The deadline for the
1970 Career Service Awards nominations is November 28A 1969.
and we look forward to your early response.
I know you recognize the importance of this program to a healthy
career service. Please let me know if there is any further
information you desire or if I can be of any assistance.
Sincerely yours,
Mortimer NL Caplin
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ANNUAL PRESENTATION
HONORING CAREER PUBLIC SERVANTS
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AGENCIES NOMINATING 'CANDIDATES
Agency and department heads are invited to nominate candidates. Men and wo-
men in all grades and occupations, in the field, overseas, and in the depart-
mental service are eligible. Nominees must meet the "Basis of Selection" cri-
teria established in this announcement. They must be employed in one of the
career services of the federal government or by their records be clearly
identified as career employees making government service their lifework.
WHAT TO SUBMIT. Each agency and department head may nominate three (for agen-
cies employing more than 100,000 -- four) candidates by
submitting:
I. FOUR COPIES of a written statement, no more than five pages in length
oita in ng:
A. Justification in detail for the nomination in terms of the primary
considerations noted as the basis for selection.
B. Human interest factors especially related to the candidate's career
that would give insight into the candidate's character and assist
in promulgation of widespread publicity on the candidate's selection.
C. Comments on the candidate's participation in professional, social
and civic activities and organizations.
D. A list of organizations, (e.g., schools & C, above) and media (pro-
fessional iournals. home town FJFr:SS. Atr.) that might be interested
The prestige of the pub-
Item 3 may be two pages long if necessary
ints.
3. FIFTY COPIES (original signeg by agency head) of a summary statement, pre-
ferably one page long, organized as indicated below:
NAME, TITLE AND GRADE: LENGTH OF SERVICE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS & PHONE #: MARITAL STATUS:
RESIDENCE ADDRESS & PHONE #: DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH:
EDUCATION AND DEGREES (INCLUDING NAMES OF SCHOOLS):
CHRONOLOGICAL SYNOPSIS OF CAREER SERVICE PROGRESSION, SHOWING TITLES & GOVERN-
MENT ORGANIZATIONS:
BRIEF STATEMENT SETTING FORTH IN SUMMARY THE SUBSTANTIVE ACHIEVEMENTS WHICH
QUALIFY THE CANDIDATE FOR CONSIDERATION AND INDICATING THE AGENCY HEAD'S PRIMARY
REASON(S) FOR SUBMITTING THE CANDIDATE'S NAME.
Submitted by:
(agency head's signature on original only)
NOTE: Supplemental material may be submitted, but the material above should stand
on its own.
Submit materials to National Civil Service League, 1028 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
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PURPOSE
This National Civil Service League
program strengthens the public service
by bringing national recognition to sig-
nificant careers in the federal service.
The League will grant awards to ten
career employees who exemplify in an out-
standing manner the primary characteris-
tics of the career service: efficiency,
achievement, character, and service. Ex-
tensive publicity through television, ra-
dio, magazines, and newspapers will be
given to the selections and the presenta-
tion of the awards.
THE AWARD
The Career Service Award recipients
will be guests of honor at a dinner-dance
in Washington, D. C. to be addressed by
a nationally prominent speaker and attend-
ed by many leaders of government, business,
education, and the professions.
BASIS OF SELECTION
I. Efficiency ad achievement
A record of exceptional efficiency;
evidence of sustained superior per-
formance an: accomplishment.
?. Character
A record cf integrity and devotion
to the prin ples of public service.
3. Service
At least 1-r years -- this may in-
clude milillry service and employ-
ment in sta e or local, as well as
federal, go.ernments.
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Leaders Praise Public Service and League
"I was deeply proud to participate in the ceremony honoring
the National Civil Service League's Career Service Awards
winners. It is always a pleasure to see reward given to those
public servants, so dedicated and a credit to their country."
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
"The National Civil Service League, by its selection and acclaim
of outstanding award winners, made a valuable contribution
to better public understanding of our career service."
JOHN F. KENNEDY
"The National Civil Service League is to be commended for its
efforts to strengthen the public service and for its program of
bringing national recognition to significant careers in the
Federal Service."
DWIGHT 0 EISENHOWER
"We are all indebted to the League and its members for their
untiring work in helping to improve Civil Service systems
throughout the nation
HARRY S. TRUMAN
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Career Service Awards
? To Stimulate able young people
to choose government careers
? To Encourage all in government
to pursue excellence
? To Promote public appreciation
of quality in government
? To Honor Career civil servants
for significant contributions
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
1028 Connecticut Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
[phone]
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