TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Mordecai ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Institutionalizing Congress and the presidency: the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933 T2 - Joseph V. Hughes, Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership AV - JK691 .L44 2006eb U1 - 352.3/75097309042 22 PY - 2006/// CY - College Station PB - Texas A&M University Press KW - United States KW - Bureau of Efficiency KW - History KW - Civil service KW - Personnel management KW - Industrial efficiency KW - Executive departments KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index; Why study the Bureau of Efficiency? -- Origins -- Inventing a central staff agency : congress proposes, the president disposes -- An administrative sketch of the bureau -- A staff agency at work -- A presidential staff agency -- A congressional staff agency -- Terminating the bureau : congress proposes, the president disposes -- Assessing the first federal staff agency; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10456020 ER -