Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Committee on - Veterans' Administration Reorganization, 1952

File — Box: 2, Folder: 78

Identifier: CAC_CC_050_1.3_2_78_0000

Staff Only

Correspondence re possible reorganization of the Veterans' Administration and modification of veterans' benefits along the lines of the Hoover Commission. Includes American Legion resolutions. Some correspondence mentions H. R. 2420 ["To provide a recruitment procedure for the competitive civil service in order to insure selection of personnel on the basis of open competition and merit, and for other purposes" (Tom Murray - Tennessee). Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.], H. R. 2748 ["To provide a recruitment procedure for the competitive civil service in order to insure selection of personnel on the basis of open competition and merit, and for other purposes" (Katharine St. George - New York). Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.], H. R. 3305 ["To establish and to consolidate certain hospital, medical, and public health functions of the Government in a Department of Health" (Clare E. Hoffman - Michigan.], H. R. 3309 ["To effectuate recommendations relating to the Department of the Interior of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government" (Clare E. Hoffman - Michigan). Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.], H. R. 3311 ["To provide a recruitment procedure for the competitive civil service in order to insure selection of personnel on the basis of open competition and merit, and for other purposes" (Clare E. Hoffman - Michigan). Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.], H. R. 3316 ["To provide for the reorganization of the Veterans' Administration in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government" (Clare E. Hoffman - Michigan). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.], H. R. 3317 ["Creating a Veterans' Insurance Corp. in the Veterans' Administration to exercise all of the functions with respect to Government life insurance and national service life insurance" (Clare E. Hoffman - Michigan). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.], H. R. 3677 ["Creating a Veterans' Insurance Corp. in the Veterans' Administration to exercise all of the functions with respect to Government life insurance and national service life insurance" (William L. Dawson - Illinois). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.], H. R. 3680 ["To effectuate recommendations relating to the Department of the Interior of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government" (William L. Dawson - Illinois). Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.], H. R. 3686 ["To provide for the reorganization of the Veterans' Administration in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government" (William L. Dawson - Illinois). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.], H. R. 3687 ["To provide a recruitment procedure for the competitive civil service in order to insure selection of personnel on the basis of open competition and merit, and for other purposes" (William L. Dawson - Illinois). Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.], H. R. 3688 ["To establish and to consolidate certain hospital, medical, and public health functions of the Government in a Department of Health" (William L. Dawson -Illinois.], S. 1135 ["To provide a recruitment procedure for the competitive civil service in order to insure selection of personnel on the basis of open competition and merit, and for other purposes" (John L. McClellan - Arkansas; Joseph R. McCarthy - Wisconsin; George D. Aiken - Vermont; Robert A. Taft - Ohio; Homer Ferguson - Michigan; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -Massachusetts; Irving M. Ives - New York; Hubert H. Humphrey - Minnesota; Estes Kefauver - Tennessee; William Benton - Connecticut; James H. Duff - Pennsylvania; Leverett Saltonstall - Massachusetts; Everett M. Dirksen - Illinois). Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.], and S. 1140 ["To establish and to consolidate certain hospital, medical, and public health functions of the Government in a Department of Health" (John L. McClellan - Arkansas; Homer Ferguson - Michigan; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - Massachusetts; William Benton - Connecticut.].