To get a better idea of his department's work in the West, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, a Marylander, has decided that he and a dozen top aides will spend the month of August running Interior from the regional office in Denver.
Perhaps this notion of taking bureaucracy into the field will catch on with other departments. Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, for example, could spend the season at Khe Sanh, getting a sense of what his men are up against. Secretary of State, William Rogers, could summer in the Sinai, while Labor Secretary, James Hodgson, might spend August in downtown Detroit. A...
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