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Show ,:&A ' NEWS, Friday, December DESERET 8, 1972 &9 Nixon's White House Staff Doubles In Four Years CAM? DAVID, Md. (AP) -President Nixon's move to slash the White House staff is statisspurred by tics showing that executive-offic- e employment has doubled in his first term. little-notice- d Nixon himself acknowledged last week that the White House staff has grown rather like Topsv. He promised that as he shakes up the bureaucracy and trims personnel the biggest cuts will be made in in Nixons administra- 689 at last report the Office Science and Technology reports 79. the Council on Environmental Quality, 68, and the Council of Economic Advisers, early tion to 58. which oversees disaster planning and assistance, had its payroll increased from 437 to The Office of Management and Budget, which has assumed a broader watchdog role over government spending and employment, has seen its own payroll go up from 535 ures e Emergency Preparedness, 560. The latest figure of 3,563 executive-offic- e employes does ers, Nixon said: "I felt from the beginning that it was important that the White House establish the example for the in balance of government terms of cutting down on perwhere sonnel, doing a better job with precisely specified White House personnel cuts fewer people. Consequently, while there will be made, he has said they be personnel cuts across will substantial. will be throughout the 27 to report government, Nov. on Talking ble figure when Nixon took office and initiated policies and proposals that have resulted in OEO slimmed-dowoperations. While the President lias not the departments, the biggest cuts will be made in the White House staff itself. When Franklin D. Roosevelt n began his third term nearly three decades ago, records show the White House office staff numbered 51. Harry Trumatt was his term the through midway When staff numbered 243 and there were 1,100 other employes io executive offices. The total inched upward during Dwight Eisenhowers years in the White House reached 1,500 when John Kennedy was president topped, 1,700 under Lyndon Johnson and now exceeds 3,500. This Christmas...If You Are ShoppingFor Savings .. Availability. Immediate And .. Selection. the White House staff itself." The President gave no figon White House employment or on the size of the proposed cutback. Neither would White House spokesmen. of an examination But by monthly reports published the Civil Service Commission show's that since Nixon moved into the White House in January 1969 the executive-officstaff has increased from 1,748 to 3,562. of Likewise, not include 2,300 persons employed by the povertyfighting Office of Economic. Opponunity, which, in some publications, is government listed under the President's executive office. If OEO employes are includemployed, executive-offic- e ment reaches about 5,800, or 1,000 more than the compara Today 10 to 10 More than 1,000 of the new employes were added to the executive-offic- e rolls during a period when federal agencies faced a presidentiallv cutback. ordered - a 1 li 1jHT s - V- ; til tthidut 1 - 1- J V Af: 1 .iV-.-- I i -- J J Mtsm gfea The sharp upswing in executiveemployment also bucked the government-wid- e trend. When Nixon came into office, there were 2,948,393 federal - civilian employes, nearly 200,000 more than now. -office The columns of fine print in the monthly personnel reports Include the more than 600 employes of the White House office the aides and advisers closest to the President as well as staffers in a variety of offices, councils, and commissions grouped under the heading the executive office of the President." fs brand See Colorful Model Rooms ByThe Score! and the statistics a portion of the that increase can be attributed to confirm new functions taken on by the executive office. These include, for example, the Cost of Living Council set e up within the executive-officstructure to police wage-pric- e controls. At last repoit, the council had grown from 0 to 966 employes in less than a enjoy name-bran- d quality? Have Lane, Bassett, Singer, Rowe, Thomasville, Kroehlerand others at giant warehouse savings! '9FV. 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