Powers of the President during crises

by J. Malcolm Smith; Cornelius P. Cotter

CHAPTER VIII

Accounting to Committees

[555] David M. Levitan, “Responsibility of Administrative Officials in a Democratic Society,” 61 Political Science Quarterly (December 1946), 562-98.

[556] See John A. Perkins, “Congressional Self-Improvement,” 38 APSR (June 1944), 499-511; Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, Hearings, 79th Congress, First Session (1945).

[557] See Estes Kefauver’s plea for a congressional question period in “The Need for Better Executive-Legislative Teamwork in the National Government,” 38 APSR (April 1944), 317-25.

[558] See Leonard D. White, “Congressional Control of the Public Service,” 39 American Political Science Review, (February 1945), 1-11.

[559] Kefauver, op. cit. [See Harry A. Toulmin, Jr., Diary of Democracy] (New York, 1947), the story of the wartime Truman Committee, for examples of such cooperation.

Accounting to Congress.

[560] New York Times, July 14, 1955, pp. 1, 8.

[561] 62 Stat. 258, May 21, 1948, Sec. 2.