PRESIDENT BACKS STUDY OF POLICY

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• Publication Date: July 18, 1959
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PRESIDENT BACKS
STUDY OF POLICY
Continued From rage 1, Col. 1
said that the guidelines "relieve
the most serious of the con-
cerns" expressed In his earlier
letter to Senator Johnson. He
gave assurances, therefore, that
the White House staff would
"work cooperatively with your
subcommittee in an effort to
help make this study of value
not only to the Legislative
Branch but to the executive
Branch as well."
Presidential Study, Cited
The President's letter in-
dicated that the study might
play a role in the reorganiza-
tion plans he intended to submit
to Congress before retiring from
office. At his news conference
this week, the President ob-
served that the present organi-
zation imposed "unsolvable"
rLANS POLICY STUDY:
Senator Henry M. Jackson,
who will head a subcommit-
tee to study Government's
organization for' reaching
national policy decisions.
for revising the present organi-
zation, Including establishment
of several policy planning staffs
in various Government agencies
to relieve the National Security
Council of some of its planning
responsibilities and creation of
a national academy to act as
a permanent policy study group
in all phases of defense strategy.
Fundamental Issues Seen
"The fundamental issues,"
Senator Jackson said in his
statement today, "is whether a
free society can so organize its
human and material resources
so as to outthink, outplan and
outperform totalitarianism."
In carrying out is study, the
subcommittee plans to hear
testimony from officials who
have held policy-making jobs
in both Republican and Demo-
cratic Administrations. Prelimi=
nary hearings,, are expected to.
begin next month.
Senator Jackson announced.
the appointment of three men,
to the subcommittee staff: I
e h a.nsfield. formed
sta member on the Joint Con-,
gressional Committee on Atom-
burdens upon higher Govern-
ment officials and said that he
planned to submit some reor-
ganization recommendations to
Congress so his successor "will
have the benefit of a better or-
ganization."
Senator Jackson, who Is a
member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee and the
Joint Congressional Committee
on Atomic Energy, has criti-
cized the present policy-making
machinery on the ground that
it does not "produce clearly de-
fined and purposeful stategy
for the 'cold war.'"
He has made some proposals
is Energy and now assistant
to the director of Combustion
Engineering, Inc. of Windsor,
Conn,, who will serve as staff
director; Robert W. Tuft, for
mer mend er of the ate De-
partment policy planning staff
and now Professor of Economies'
at Oberlin College, and Greeti-
vilie Garside a New York
r.
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PRESIDENT BACKS
SENATORS' STUDY
OFP061CYhtAKING
He Shifts Stand and Agrees
to Facilitate Inquiry on
Devising Strategy
`NOT AN INVESTIGATION'
Legislators Vow They Will
Not Infringe on Advising
by National Council
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, July 18 -
President Eisenhower, reversing j
his earlier opposition, has
pledged White House coopera
tion in a forthcoming Congres-
sional study of the Govern-
ment's organization for reach-
ing national policy decisions.
The President's assurance of
cooperation in the unusual Con-
gressional inquiry was disclosed
today by Senator Henry M.''
Jackson, Democrat of Washing-
ton, who will head the three- I
nuan Senate Government Opera-
tions subcommittee conducting
the inquiry.
Senator Jackson said in a
statement that the White House
cooperation would make pos-
sible an "unprecedented" Con-
gressional study of the ade-
quacy and the shortcomings of
the present organization for de-
vising national strategy.
`Scholarly Evaluation'
"Never before have the Con-
gress and the Executive Branch'
Worked together in a scholarly
and nonpartisan evaluation of
our national policy machinery,":
the Senator declared.
An exchange of letters with
the President made public by'
the Senator disclosed that Pres-
ident Eisenhower earlier had
serious _objectior,s to the pro-
posed inquiry and had expressed
his concern in a letter to the
Senate,nlajorit. leader, Lyndon
B. Johnson, Democrat of Texas.
From the exchange it was evi-
dent that the President was
concerned that the inquiry
might infringe upon executive
privileges and go into the sen-
Fitive area of National Security
(`ouncil deliberations.
To meet these Presidential
bbjestions, proposed guidelines
for the inquiry were worked out
in discussions between Senator
Jackson and Bryce N. Hariow,+
a Deputy Assistant to the
President.
`Study, Not Investigation'
The proposed guidelines spec-
ify that the inquiry, so far as
it relates to the National Secu-
rity Council, "will be a study,
not an investigation" and "will
not attempt, by legislation or,
otherwise, to infringe upon the'
Constitutional Privilege of the
President to obtain advice
through such organization and
procedures as he deems appro-
priate."
The guidelines also state that
the study of the National
Security Council will be directed
to its "purposes, composition
organization and procedu" j
and will not go into res
"subsres
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In a letter to Senator Jack-+
on 021 July 10, the President