24 of its product. Accordingly, this Citizens' Committee report is addressed both to the American public and to their governmental officials. 25 APPENDIX Biographical Data on Committee Members and Staff Committee Members Robert E. Merriam, chairman of the committee, has been the Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations since 1969. He is Executive Vice-President for Development, Urban Investment and Development Company, Chicago, Illinois. He has had extensive experience both in private business and in government at the federal, state, and local levels, serving in the White House, in the Bureau of the Budget, and as an Alderman to the City of Chicago. Stephen K. Bailey is Vice-President of the American Council on Education. His past affiliations have been with Syracuse University where, among other positions, he served as the Dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has taught at Princeton and Wesleyan Universities and at Hiram College. He served as Administrative Assistant to the late Senator William Benton of Connecticut and was on the staff of the First Hoover Commission. Among his major writings are Congress Makes a Law and Congress in the Seventies. Samuel H. Beer is Professor of Political Science at Harvard University. He has been associated with Harvard since 1938. Author of many books in the field of political science and government, his British Policies in the Collectivist Age won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation award in 1966. His latest volume is entitled The State and the Poor. He was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action from 1959 to 1962. 26 Lucy Wilson Benson is Secretary of Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has had wide experience in non-partisan, citizen participation activities, having served as President of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters from 1957 until 1965 and as VicePresident and President of the League of Women Voters of the United States from 1966 through 1974. She is an advisor to many national organizations. Mark W. Cannon is Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States. He was Director of the Institute of Public Administration from 1968 until 1972, having previously served the Institute as Director of International Programs and the Urban Development Project in Venezuela. He was Chairman of the Political Science Department at Brigham Young University and has served as an Assistant to both a U.S. Senator and a U.S. Representative. Ruth C. Clusen is President of the League of Women Voters of the United States, having served on the League's National Board since 1966. She serves and has served in numerous advisory positions to the federal government and national and international organizations. Among her other commitments, she is on the Council of the National Municipal League and the National Petroleum Council. She is also on the Boards of the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights and the Center for Public Financing of Elections. Murray Comarow is Executive Director of the Interstate Conference Executive of Employment Security Agencies, Inc. During his extensive experience in the Executive Branch he served as Senior Assistant Postmaster General; Director of the Federal Power Commission; Executive Director of the President's 27 Commission on Postal Organization; and Executive Director of the President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization, known as the Ash Council. From 1969 to 1972 he was Vice-President of Booz, Allen, and Hamilton. Roy W. Crawley (Ex Officio) is President of the National Academy of Public Administration Foundation and Executive Director of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has been associated with the National Academy since its inception. Prior experience includes: Ford Foundation Representative in Latin America; Director of the Office of Personnel Administration, Agency for International Development; and Director of Administration, General Services Administration. member at The Brookings Institution. He has also been a staff Alan L. Dean is Vice-President of the U.S. Railway Association. Before assuming this position, he served in many high-level federal government positions; among them, Assistant Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Transportation. He also served as assistant to Dean Acheson, the Vice-Chairman of the First Hoover Commission. Bernard L. Gladieux is a private consultant. Previously he was a director of Knight, Gladieux and Smith, management consulting firm in New York City, as well as an officer of the Ford Foundation and of Booz, Allen and Hamilton. From the late thirties until 1950 he served in several federal government executive positions in the Bureau of the Budget, the War Production Board and the Department of Commerce. 28 Kermit Gordon is President of The Brookings Institution, having previously served as Brookings' Vice-President. Among his federal positions was that of Director of the Bureau of the Budget. He came to that position from the faculty of Williams College where he was the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy. Bryce N. Harlow is Vice President for National Government Relations of Procter and Gamble. He served on the personal staffs of three Presidents and has had extensive experience in staff work for the House of Representatives. Ronald B. Lee is Director of Marketing Analysis for Xerox Corporation. As a West Point graduate, he served in various positions in the U.S. Army both domestically and abroad. He was a White House Fellow, serving on the White House staff; Assistant to the Postmaster General; and later, Assistant Postmaster General. He has been Assistant Provost of Michigan State University and continues to lecture on various campuses in the field of management and planning. Franklin A. Lindsay is Chairman of the Board, ITEK Corporation with which he has been associated since 1961. He has held important positions in private industry and government, at the national, international, and Congressional staff levels. He was a consultant to the Second Hoover Commission and among the many organizations with which he has been associated is the Council for Economic Development of which he is Vice-President. Herbert Roback is a consultant to the House Armed Services Committee, |