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Article: Ridge problems echo Roosevelt era; Head of World War II mobilization refused congresional control of office.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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Byline: George Archibald, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Congress' difficulty in getting homeland security czar Tom Ridge to testify about the administration's proposed $38 billion counterterrorism program is reminiscent of problems lawmakers had during World War II with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office of War Mobilization, a congressional study has found.
Like Mr. Ridge, the OWM's director, James F. Byrnes, was appointed by presidential executive order and had sweeping jurisdiction over all agencies to coordinate the war effort at home, says a report issued by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
"Byrnes did not have ...