HARDING READY TO SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On November 12, 1922, the White House announced that President Warren G. Harding "is ready to submit his recommendations for reorganization of the administrative branch of the federal government."
The reorganization program, headed by Walter F. Brown*, will be recommending moving the bureau of the markets from Agriculture to Commerce and the forest service and public roads from Agriculture to Interior.
Other recommendations will include the unification of the War and Navy Departments into a national Department of Defense**.
JFK+50 NOTE
Sherman Blanchard writes eight years after Harding's death...
"The task of his administration was one of reconstruction and readjustment after the World War. A return to 'normalcy,' he phrased it."
*Walter Folger Brown (1869-1961) graduated from Harvard University 1892 & served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce under President Coolidge & Postmaster General under President Hoover.
**The Department of Defense was not created until 1947 by an act of Congress. The modern DOD was established by an amendment passed in 1949.
SOURCES
"President Harding: A Reappraisal," by Sherman Blanchard, Current History, October 1931, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/
"President Is Ready With Administration Reorganization Plan," by Will P. Kennedy, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 12, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
