ABSTRACT
In line with Dwight D. Eisenhower's commitment to organization as a necessary ingredient of effective leadership, several important administrative innovations were introduced in the President's first term of office. The Office of Science and Technology, for example, was created by Eisenhower and given "institutional" status under John F. Kennedy, only to be abolished by Richard Nixon and later revived by an act of Congress under Jimmy Carter. The Eisenhower-inspired Council on Foreign Economic Policy was abolished by Kennedy, but it reappeared in function under Gerald Ford's expanded Economic Policy Board. Eisenhower's formalistic style of administration was far removed from Franklin Roosevelt's personalized approach. Eisenhower came into office with definite ideas of what could be done to improve the administration of the Presidency. When President Roosevelt appointed Louis Brownlow to direct the Committee on Administrative Management in 1936, his principal objective was to search for methods to assist the Chief Executive in the increasingly complex task of managing the federal government.
