Lawton, Frederick J. Papers

Dates: 1917-1963

Executive Assistant, Bureau of the Budget, 1935-1947; Administrative Assistant to the President, 1948; Assistant Director, 1949, and Director, Bureau of the Budget, 1950-1953; Member, Civil Service Commission, 1953-1963

See also Frederick J. Lawton oral history.

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Processed by: Jerry N. Hess (1963).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

INDEX

Box 1

  • Index to Lawton Papers
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
  • General
  • Chronological file, 1948
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Anti-inflation
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Excess profits tax
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Housing
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Health
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Minimum wage
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Social security
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Electric power facilities
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Displaced persons
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Loan to United Nations
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Civil Rights
  • Special Legislative Session, July 26-August 7, 1948: Status, July 20, 1948
  • Foreign Aid - for the period when Frederick J. Lawton was Administrative Assistant to the President, April-September, 1948
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: General File
  • Manual of the Budget Bureau (2 folders)
  • Staff orientation manual

Box 2

  • Examiners' Handbook, Volume 1
  • Examiners' Handbook, Volume 2
  • Bulletins, 1943-1946
  • Bulletins, 1947-1950
  • Bulletins, 1951-1953

Box 3

  • Management Bulletins, 1944-1949
  • Circulars from the Budget Bureau to the Heads of the Executive Departments and Establishments, 1943-1955
  • Budget circular A-45, Rent policy for quarters for federal employees, 1953
  • Bureau of the Budget - History and Functions
  • Bureau of the Budget - Organization, etc.
  • Budget expenditures - Character Classification
  • Bureau activities, Monthly report of
  • Bureau of the Budget - Staff meetings
  • Bureau of the Budget - Work reports

Box 4

  • Budget format, proposed format for 1952 Budget
  • Budget improvement (Colm, Trickton)
  • Item veto, 1953
  • Performance budget
  • Budget projections
  • Bureau of the Budget reorganization - working papers, April 1, 1952
  • Foreign Aid - Mutual Security Assistance, 1951
  • Joint Accounting Study of G.A.O. - Treasury and Bureau of the Budget, 1948-1949
  • Tydings-Wherry Reduction Resolution, fiscal year 1950
  • Revised estimate for receipts and expenditures

Box 5

  • National Budget, fiscal year 1947
  • National Budget, fiscal year 1948
  • National Budget, fiscal year 1949
  • National Budget, fiscal year 1950
  • National Budget, fiscal year 1951
  • National Budget, 1951 General Appropriations Bill
  • National Budget, fiscal year 1951, Sec. 1214 Reserve
  • National Budget, Byrd-Bridges 10 percent cut - 1951 Budget
  • National Budget, fiscal year 1952

Box 6

  • National Budget, fiscal year 1953
  • Press releases by President Truman re change in the public debt during his term of office, January 9, 1953
  • Budget previews - fiscal year 1954 Budget
  • Materials used in briefing President Truman for his press conference on the 1954 Budget
  • Summary tables used in reviewing 1954 Budget recommendations with President Truman
  • Review of the 1954 Budget by the Republican administration
  • Fiscal year 1954 Budget - working papers, schedules, etc.
  • National Budget fiscal year 1955
  • Transaction to the new administration, 1952-1953
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Meetings with President Harry S. Truman
  • Meetings with President Harry S. Truman - Agendas and memorandums, July 1949-July 1952
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Public Works
  • Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma floods, 1951
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Correspondence and Memoranda
  • White House correspondence
  • Congressional correspondence

Box 7

  • Director - Staff memoranda
  • Official miscellaneous correspondence
  • Official personal correspondence, 1948-1949
  • Official personal correspondence, 1950-1951
  • Official personal correspondence, 1952-1953
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Legislation and Congressional File
  • Testimony before committees of Congress
  • Hearing: Budgetary Practices Reorganization Act of 1950; Letter from Budget Bureau filed in the hearings
  • Hearing: To improve Budgeting, Accounting and Auditing methods in the Federal Government (Contains testimony of F.J. Lawton)
  • Hearing: January 1951 Economic Report of the President (Contains testimony of F.J. Lawton)
  • Voting record - 81st Congress, 2nd Session

Box 8

BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Invitations
  • Invitations - prior to calender year 1952
  • Invitations - calender years 1952-1954
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Speeches
  • Speeches, meetings and public appearances prior to 1951
  • Speeches, meetings and public appearances, 1951
  • Speeches, meetings and public appearances, 1952
  • Speeches, meetings and public appearances, 1953

Box 9

  • Speeches and meetings - Joint orientation conferences, 1950-1951
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET: Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government
  • Reorganization, 1948-1953
  • Reorganization, miscellaneous, 1949-1953
  • Reorganization - Rockefeller Committee memoranda, 1953
  • Status of Hoover Commission's personnel recommendations, January 1953
  • Press releases on Hoover Reports, 1955 (2 folders)
  • Senate Report No. 122, March 23, 1959; Action by 85th Congress on the Second Hoover Commission Reports

Box 10

PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT
  • Meetings of the Advisory Committee on Management Improvement (3 folders)
  • Management Improvement Program, 1949
  • Minutes of meetings, 1950-1952
COMMITTEE ON RETIREMENT POLICY FOR FEDERAL PERSONNEL
  • Study of retirement systems by Committee on Retirement Policy for Federal Personnel (Kaplan Committee), 1953

Box 11

  • File material on Kaplan reports
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
  • Agenda of Commission meetings, June 1953-March 1963
  • Commission proceedings, 1961-1962
  • Correspondence, 1953-1962
  • Employment policies of the U.S. Civil Service, 1953-1963
  • Foreign visitors program, 1954-1962

Box 12

  • Pay and personnel
  • Reorganization plans for the Civil Service Commission
  • Speeches, articles and statements by F.J. Lawton, 1953-1960
  • Speeches, articles and statements by F.J. Lawton, 1961-1963
  • Synopsis of a Saturday Symposium on Civil Service, November 19, 1960
  • Views on various civil service problems by F.J. Lawton
MISCELLANEOUS

Box 13

  • American Society for Public Administration Committee on Education and Training
  • Articles from newspapers, magazines, etc.
  • Books and pamphlets transferred from the Lawton papers to the book collection, Harry S. Truman Library
  • Committee for Economic Development (2 folders)
  • National Security Act of 1947 (copy of Public Law 253 - 80th Congress)
  • Report of examination of Treasurer's office as of opening of business, June 1,1933
  • Service of F.J. Lawton, 1917-1935
  • Harry S. Truman - miscellaneous
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