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some of which were admirable and accepted later, about having the preparation of the various departments and agencies begun with the assistance of somebody from the budget office. This was done at the very beginning, so that you didn't come up to the Budget Bureau with a finished budget and nobody there knowing anything about it. A junior budget officer was sent over to the Department of Labor to assist you in the preparation of your budget. So it would come up properly prepared from their point of view. Also, that young budget officer would become acquainted with the reasons for your various requests, and be able to help you defend them when it came before the budget officers. That was a very good idea and there was an organized relationship between the Bureau of the Budget and the departments of government. I thought he was an excellent budget officer.

I think the Budget Bureau reached a phoney state of development under Harold Smith and we haven't yet recovered from it. They undertook to do things that are not the business of the Bureau of the Budget. The Bureau of the Budget has a very important duty - that is, the Presidential control of the purse strings, keeping an eye on what the taxation results will be from this, that, or the other set of expenditures. But they are not legislative and judicial in function, neither should they have anything whatever to