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With the impetus of the Hoover Commission, the Reorganization Act of 1949, (Public Law 109, 81st Cong., 1st sess.) was approved by Congress on June 20, 1949. [3] President Truman made a special message to Congress upon signing the act, [4] with eight reorganization plans submitted in 1949, 27 in 1950, and one each in 1951 and 1952. [5]
On January 13, 1949, the Hoover Commission submitted a 121-page document outlining criticisms and recommendations for the nation's national security and intelligence organizations. [10] Within the first few pages the Eberstadt report states that “the National Security Organization, established by the National Security Act of 1947, is, on the ...
1949 Eberstadt Report (First Hoover Commission) [ edit ] The first major analysis, following the National Security Act of 1947 , was chaired by former President Herbert Hoover , with a Task Force on National Security Organization under Ferdinand Eberstadt , one of the drafters of the National Security Act and a believer in centralized intelligence.
The First Hoover Commission is also known as the Eberstadt Report and the Task Force on National Security Organization of the First Hoover Commission. Between 1948 and 1949 the U.S. government conducted two investigations into the national intelligence effort as a response to the changing role of the U.S. federal government.
In 1949, the Hoover Commission reports, recommending integration of Native peoples into mainstream society, and the 1952 House Report (HR No. 2503), investigating the Bureau of Indian Affairs, both portrayed termination as cost effective and benign in its effects. [5]
The Commission for Polish Relief (CPR), also known unofficially as Comporel [1] or the Hoover Commission, [2] was initiated in late 1939 by former US President Herbert Hoover, following the German and Soviet occupation of Poland. The Commission provided relief to Nazi occupied territories of Poland until December 1941.
Government reform has been practiced for over a century, beginning in 1905 with Theodore Roosevelt's Keep Commission. [25] The following are other examples of reformation commissions: Brownlow Committee, (1937) Hoover Commission, two commissions in 1947–1949 and 1953–1955. Grace Commission, (1982–1984)
Although the First Hoover Commission recommended merging the FWA into a new Department of Public Works (which would oversee all non-military federal construction), opposition from special interests and several federal agencies (such as the Army Corps of Engineers) led Truman to recommend abolishing the FWA, transferring some functions to other ...