FDR's budgeteer and manager-in-chief : Harold D. Smith, 1939-1945 / Mordecai Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Mordecai, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

United States. Bureau of the Budget--Officials and employees--Biography.

United States.

Budget--United States--History--20th century.

Budget.

Finance, Public--United States--History--1933-.

Finance, Public.

World War, 1939-1945--Finance--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR's budget director from 1939 to 1945.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Smith's Conception of Budgeting: Apolitical, Non-policymaking, and Anonymous

Review of the Literature

Rationale and Scope

Sources and Methodology

Harold Smith's Papers

Historical Research Methodology: Triangulation

Structure of the Book: Chronology of Smith's Public Service Career

1 FDR's "Great Reorganizer," April-July 1939

Roosevelt's BOB Directors, 1933-1939

Looking for Mr. Smith

Breaking in the New Guy, April 1939

Reorganization Plans I and II, April-July 1939

The Kind of Budgeteer FDR Wanted: A Man for All Seasons

An Apolitical Budgeting Technocrat?

Smith's Behind-the-Scenes Politics

2 War in Europe, Empowering BOB, and First Budget, July-December 1939

War Worries and Federal Spending, Summer 1939

Hitler Invades Poland and FDR Strengthens BOB, September 1939

Preparing the President's FY 1941 Budget, September-December 1939

Roosevelt's Role

Dealing with Agencies

Estimating Revenues and Drafting the President's Budget Message to Congress

Meanwhile, Back at the (Smith) Ranch: A De Facto Manager-in-Chief of the Executive Branch

Professionalizing Public Administration

A Minor Public Figure

3 Spending, Reorganization, Defense, and Third Term Campaign, 1940

Capitol Hill and the FY 1941 Budget, Spring

The "Great Reorganizer," Part 2: Plans III, IV, and V, April-June

Strengthening BOB

Emerging as a Public Spokesperson for the Administration

Budgeting and Organizing for National Defense, May-October

Administration and (Some) Politics: Running BOB While Roosevelt Was Running for a Third Term

Preparing the President's FY 1942 Budget, September-December

Promoting Professional Public Administration: APSA President, December.

4 Neither War nor Peace, plus Business as Usual, 1941

Organizing the Arsenal of Democracy, January-May

Capitol Hill: FY 1942 Budget and Lend-Lease, Spring

General Manager of the Executive Branch

Office Space

Civil Service

Policy Coordination

Reorganizing for an Unlimited State of Emergency, May-November

Return of the Conservative Coalition: The Byrd Committee, August-December

Spokesperson for the Administration

A Political Celebrity, Like It or Not

Fighting with Morgenthau, March-November

Preparing the FY 1943 Budget, October-December 6

5 The First Year of the War, 1942

Pearl Harbor and First Month of the War, December 1941

Morgenthau and Tax Policy

La Guardia's Mismanagement of the Office of Civilian Defense

Initial Wartime Organizational Needs

Promoting Professional Public Administration: ASPA Conference, December 27-29

Fiscal Year 1943 Budget and Capitol Hill, January-May

Organizing for Victory

Reorganizing

Decentralizing

Expanding

Fiscal Policy: Taking the Initiative for an Anti-Inflation Program, March-October

Manager-in-Chief of the Executive Branch

Spokesperson for the Administration through Intensified PR

The Tydings and Byrd Committees and Smith's PR Counteroffensive, October-December

Promoting Professional Public Administration

Preparing the FY 1944 Budget, October-December

After Three Years at BOB: Health Problems

6 The Second Year of the War, 1943

Finalizing the FY 1944 Budget Message, including Fighting with Morgenthau, January

Elections Have Consequences: A More Conservative and Assertive Congress

FY 1944 Appropriation for BOB, January-April

Byrd Committee, February-June

House Civil Service Investigation, April-October

House Investigation of the Federal Communications Commission, June-July

1943 Revenue Bill, October-November.

Congressional Oversight of Individual Projects, November

First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill, October-December

Reorganizing for Victory

Executive Orders

Office of War Mobilization

Decentralization, January-May

"Mr. Fix-it": General Manager of the Executive Branch and Presidential Coordinator

BOB Field Service, 1943-1946

Committee for Congested Production Areas, 1943-1944

Speeches

Media Relations

A News Figure

Health: Smith and Coy's Partnership

Private Life: Farmer Smith

Preparing the FY 1945 Budget

7 The Third Year of the War and Fourth-Term Campaign, 1944

Noticing FDR's Gradual Decline

An Ill Wind from Capitol Hill: BOB's FY 1945 Appropriations

Reorganizing for War and Postwar

Management Improvement and Work Simplification Campaign

Planning Public Works for the Missouri River

Overseeing the Management of the War Effort

Running BOB While Roosevelt Was Running for a Fourth Term

Private Life: Health, Farm

Preparing the FY 1946 Budget

8 FDR's Fourth Term, 1945

Interacting with FDR

Inauguration

Problems on Capitol Hill: FY 1946 Budget

Management Improvement Campaign

Promoting Public Administration

Public Relations

The Profession

Smith's 1945 Book

April 12, 1945

After FDR, April 1945-January 1947

Death and Tributes

Conclusion: FDR's Other Assistant President

How FDR Viewed Smith: Nicknames and Humor as Job Descriptions

Smith's Image as Apolitical, Non-policymaking, and Anonymous

Politics

Policy

Publicity.

FDR's Manager-in-Chief: Staff and Line

FDR's Czars and Byrnes as his Only Assistant President

Notes

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Federal Publications

Smith Bibliography (1939-1945)

Published Primary Sources (memoirs and reports)

Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438485355

1438485352

OCLC:

1268516247