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THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE

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PREFACE

EVEN since 1903, when this book was started, many important changes have occurred in the Federal Executive. In 1903 there was no single book that adequately treated the President's Cabinet and the executive departments. Since then several books on aspects of this general subject have been written. With a few exceptions (notably Dr. Learned's admirable book on The President's Cabinet, Dr. Fairlie's The National Administration, and Mr. Haskin's The American Government), these are merely compilations from the annual reports of the heads of the executive departments, and other government publications. The development and delimitation of the functions of the Executive are an index of the growth of the Federal Government. Much remains to be written about it. In 1903 I was Assistant in Government in two courses given at Harvard by Professor Frederic J. Stimson and the Honorable Charles S. Hamlin dealing with American Government. In 1905 I gave seven lectures at Johns Hopkins for Dr. W. W. Willoughby on "The Executive Administration of the United States"; in the spring of 1912, at Goucher College, three lectures on the "Creation and Development of the Cabinet"; and in November, 1912, two lectures at the University of Virginia, one on "The Growth of the Cabinet-Council Idea in the Federal Executive" and

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