and designated chairman of, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio by John W. Bricker, Governor; served in that capacity until February 1, 1945. Served as chairman of the War Transportation Commission of Ohio from 1942 to 1945. Elected president of National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners for the year 1944-45. Practiced law in Columbus, Ohio, 1945 until appointed member of the Renegotiation Board and designated Chairman by President Eisenhower on November 30, 1953. Served in that capacity until September 25, 1954, at which time was appointed a member of, and designated Chairman of, the Federal Communications Commission by President Eisenhower. Affiliations: Member of Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio. Member of board of trustees, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Member of Masonic Order, Highland Lodge No. 38, Hillsboro, Ohio; Aladdin Temple, Columbus, Ohio; American Legion Post No. 370, Franklin County War Veterans Republican Club; Sigma Chi National Fraternity; Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity; Scioto Country Club and Columbus Athletic Club, Columbus, Ohio. Married. Two sons, George C. McConnaughey, Jr., and David C. McConnaughey, lieutenant United States Air Force. The CHAIRMAN. The data show that you have been serving as Chairman of the Renegotiation Board, and that you were appointed on September 25; is that correct? Mr. McCONNAUGHEY. That is correct, sir. The CHAIRMAN. As a member and designated Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission? Mr. McCONNAUGHEY. That is correct. The CHAIRMAN. And you have been serving since that time? Mr. McCONNAUGHEY. I was sworn in on October 4, and I have been serving since that time. The CHAIRMAN. Is there anything in addition to this that you wish to submit? Mr. McCONNAUGHEY. I believe not. The CHAIRMAN. Is there a question on the part of any of the members? Senator JOHNSON of Colorado. I have quite a few questions; but, first, Mr. Chairman, I have a note from Warren Magnuson, stating that he was sick, and that he hoped the vote might be postponed until he could examine the witness. I have some questions. I notice that in the Washington Post and Times Herald of Sunday, November 7, they have a picture of Mr. McConnaughey and also a picture of Mr. Doerfer, in connection with which it is stated that these men are "in key spots to direct 'jobs' drive." The story goes on to indicate that all vacancies that are filled civil service, I presume- as well as ordinary patronage, must be cleared. I should like to have this article by Jerry Kluttz made a part of the record. (The article referred to is as follows:) [From the Washington Post and Times Herald, November 7, 1954] GOP PLACES JOB CONTRACT OFFICIALS IN KEY SPOTS-NETWORK SET UP To HELP ENFORCE ORDERS ON WORK FOR REPUBLICANS (By Jerry Kluttz, staff reporter) The Eisenhower administration has set up a network of strategically placed officials throughout the Federal service here to help it enforce its jobs-for-Republicans directive. A list of people to be contacted on job openings, their agencies, and their phone numbers has been circulated to key Republican politicians and to a select few officials in Government. It is mimeographed on three sheets of 8- by 11-inch plain white paper which is neither identifel nor explained. However, a GOP leader who gave me his copy said it arrived at his office several weeks ago in a White House envelope which was marked for his personal attention. "I didn't have to have the list explained to me," he commented, "because I had already been in touch with several on it in connection with job matters in their agencies, and I have since contacted others on it. "After all," he continued, "it makes good sense for the White House to compile the list and to make it available to those of us who wish to recommend qualified people for Federal jobs. By making someone in each agency responsible for handling the job program, the authority for it is pinned down to cerain individuals who can't give us the old run-around. Besides," he added, "the list saves time for both the Government and those who do business with it.” The official said he had been sent details of the jobs-for-Republicans patronage plan by Charles F. Willis, Jr., a White House assistant. The directive requires Federal agencies to recruit employees through the framework of the Republican Party. As a general rule, political patronage is not being handled in Government through the established agency personnel offices. The jobs of directors of personnel are under the civil service merit system, and many of the directors have been under attack from GOP sources because more Republicans were not appointed to Federal jobs. Only in Commerce is the Director of Personnel listed as the official who handles patronage. The Director there is Carlton Hayward, a veteran civil servant. In all other departments and agencies the personnel director is superseded on patronage job matters by either the agency head or an assistant to him. Most of the patronage dispensers are political appointees whose jobs have been placed in the political Schedule C by the Civil Service Commission. The plan to appoint patronage dispensers was unveiled at a White House conference last December in the office of Sherman Adams, the Assistant to the President. Earlier, CSC had rejected requests of several agencies to transfer personnel director jobs from the merit system to the political Schedule C. At the White House conference, it was decided, in effect, to supersede the personnel directors. One of the several memos sent to the agencies earlier this year by the White House said in part: 'Personal patronage resulting from highly personalized recruiting by certain uncooperative personnel people who are not in sympathy with this administration has resulted in a terrific loss of opportunity to recruit qualified loyal Republi cans The list of patronage dispensers follows: Agriculture: Clyde A. Wheeler, Jr., assistant to the Assistant Secretary. Defense (Secretary's Office): James M. Mitchell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Personnel. Air Force: Bradley D. Nash, Deputy for Civil Aviation, Office of Assistant Secretary (Materiel). Army: Franklin L. Orth, Deputy Assistant Secretary. Health, Education, and Welfare: T. P. Scantlebury, representative for special projects, and William McCamant, assistant for special projects. Interior: Evan L. Krogh, special assistant to the Secretary. Justice: Robert W. Minor, first assistant to the Deputy Attorney General. Labor: I. Lee Potter, special assistant to the Secretary. Post Office: Ben H. Guill, executive assistant to the Postmaster General. State: George F. Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Personnel. Civil Aeronautics: Raymond Sawyer, Executive Director. Civil Defense: Paul Wagner, Assistant Administrator of Education Services. Federal Communications: George C. McConnaughey, Chairman, and John C. Doerfer, Commissioner. Federal Housing: Ed Chapman, Jr., assistant to the Commissioner. Federal Trade: Edward F. Howrey, Chairman. Foreign Claims Settlement: Whitney Gilliland, Chairman. Foreign Operations: Betty Crites, special assistant to the Deputy Director for Management. General Services: Frank Fox, special assistant to the Administrator. Housing and Home Finance: Ralph A. Homan, special assistant to the Administrator. Interstate Commerce: Owen Clarke, Chairman. Public Housing: John D. Currie, Deputy Commissioner. Securities Exchange: Edward T. Tait, executive assistant to the Chairman. Small Business: Robert C. Jones, assistant to the Administrator. United States Information: Abott Washburn, Deputy Director, and Raymond R. Dickey, General Counsel. Veterans: Bernard L. Flanagan, special assistant to the Administrator. Senator JOHNSON of Colorado. However, I wanted to ask Mr. McConnaughey if there is any truth or any substance to this charge that he has been designated to handle civil-service jobs in the Government. Have you seen this article? Mr. McCONNAUGHEY. I saw it, Senator, but there is nothing to it. I have not been designated as anything with reference to handling jobs for anybody. Senator JOHNSON of Colorado. I wanted to have that made a part of the record, because it is a signed statement by Jerry Kluttz. The CHAIRMAN. It has been placed in the record, without objection. Senator JOHNSON of Colorado. There was also published in the Washington Post and Times Herald of October 27, 1954, another statement, or another article, at least, by Jerry Kluttz, in which, in part and it is quite a lengthy article he tells about the plan for controlling appointments; and I am presuming that it refers to civilservice appointments; but my understanding is that civil-service employment is handled under the merit system and is not dependent in any way upon political matters. It says: In contrast, the new "program" invites GOP political endorsements for jobs in and out of the civil service. It sets up the Republican National Committee as a major recruiting agency for the Federal service. It directs each Federal agency to report job vacancies on forms to be supplied by the Republican National Committee. It compels agency officials here to make weekly and monthly reports to the Republican National Committee and to the White House on how their job vacancies were filled. Then, on another page, it shows the forms on which these reports are to be made to the White House. I should like to have this statement by Jerry Kluttz made a part of the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, that may be done. (The statement referred to is as follows:) [From the Washington Post and Times Herald, October 27, 1954] WHITE HOUSE ISSUES CHART ON POSITION PROCURING-SHERMAN ADAMS' (By Jerry Kluttz, staff reporter) The White House has launched a determined new drive to find jobs and win promotions in the Federal service for persons who have Republican political endorsements. It also has set up a reporting system which can be used to check up on how each agency fills vacant jobs and to make sure the agency cooperates with the new jobs-for-Republicans drive. The campaign is spearheaded from the White House office of Sherman Adams, the Assistant to the President. Adams' assistant, Charles F. Willis, Jr., has sent full details on how the program is to operate to Republican Members of Congress and Republican officials in the 48 States. The instructions sent to Republican Congressmen and officials include A four-page covering letter on White House stationery and signed by "Charles F. Willis, Jr., Assistant to The Assistant." It explains in detail the "personnel procurement procedure" that is to be followed by the GOP leaders to get their backers Federal jobs and promotions. A 12- by 18-inch diagram which shows in a glance how the program is to operate and the responsibilities and duties of all parties concerned. A dozen different sets of forms which agencies will be required to use to report their job vacancies to Republican political sources. These include forms to be used by the political units and leaders to recommend "qualified" people for jobs and forms to be filled out by the agencies on how and by whom the vacancies were filled. The Willis letter was dated October 11 although copies of it were delivered only a few days ago. Queried last night about the charts and forms sent out, Willis denied emphatically that the program had any political significance. The White House did not make public its new job plan. In fact, an informed official said the documents were not meant to be published. Despite the effect to shield them from the public eye, Willis, apparently inadvertently, sent copies of them to several Democratic Members of Congress. Informed sources revealed that a counterpart of the Willis letter to GOP members of Congress is being distributed to Cabinet members and to agency heads. Jobs in and out of the civil-service merit system are specifically covered by the job program. Civil-service jobs are supposed to be filled on the basis of merit and ability. According to the "how-to-do-it job" diagram, the new "personnel-management program" has been "checked and/or approved by" President Eisenhower and his Cabinet, Mr. Adams, Bernard M. Shanley, counsel to the President; the Senate Policy Committee, the Republican National Committee, the Senate Campaign Committee, which is headed by Senator Everett M. Dirksen (Republican, of Illinois); and the House Campaign Committee whose chairman is Representative Richard M. Simpson (Republican, of Pennsylvania). Willis, however, in asserting that the program has no political implications, said: "The program is in complete accordance with the President's desire that politics shall not in any way interfere with the Federal career service. The program is designed and operated to raise the effectiveness of the personnel management in executive departments and agencies." Willis said the program is an effort to get highly qualified persons for Government service and has nothing to do with the Federal register. The "program" is a repudiation of the President's no politics in civil service policy which was approved by him and his Cabinet only a few weeks ago. That policy, also revealed first in the Washington Post and Times Herald on September 24, stated i part: "It is the policy of the administration that the career service will be protected and strengthened against political pressures. Any action on the part of any person which is contrary to this policy is a potential embarrassment to the President and opens him personally to the criticism that he is playing politics with the civil service ***" In contrast, the new "program" invites GOP political indorsements for jobs in and out of the civil service. It sets up the Republican National Committee as a major recruiting agency for the Federal service. It directs each Federal agency to report job vacancies on forms to be supplied by the Republican National Committee. It compels agency officials here to make weekly and monthly reports to the Republican National Committee and to the White House on how their job vacancies were filled. It promises that "each applicant referred by a local sponsor will be treated with the utmost consideration and will be made to feel that the agency appreciates the consideration of local sponsors in referring qualified applicants for consideration." It confers on a GOP Senator or Senators from the State in which the job is located the "top priority" in recommending a "qualified" applicant for the post. A Republican House Member or GOP State official is to be given secondary con sideration. It isolates "all" jobs in grade 14 ($9,600), or equivalent, and above, both in and out of civil service, with jobs in CSC's political schedule C in a group which is called "controlled positions." Farlier this year the White House sought to require political clearances for appointments to all GS-14 and above jobs and it was warned by CSC that it would be a direct violation of civil service and other laws. The directive was withdrawn. It sets up "recruitment forms PM-5" to "cover positions in the competitive civil service as well as those exempt from civil-service laws, rules, and regulations.' And it provides for the use of another form to search out so-called “303 authority jobs." positions under civil service but which CSC is unable to fill with qualified candidates. In such cases, CSC authorizes the agencies to fill them through direct hiring. Indirectly, the new program has the effect of relegating CSC to a back seat on Federal personnel recruiting and promotion matters. Significantly, CSC is not listed as among those which either "checked or approved" the jobs-for-Republicans plans. Furthermore, the "objective" of the program as stated in the diagram reads: "This program is designed to raise the effectiveness of personnel management in the executive departments and agencies." That, in itself, is a slam at CSC, which is supposed to have jurisdiction in that field. The "program policy," as set forth on the 12-by-18-inch diagram, explains: "The right and the responsibility to name a fully qualified appointee remains in every case with the agency. This program neither suggests, encourages, nor condones violence to this basic administrative duty and responsibility. Its primary objective is to assist the agencies to select the best qualified person for each position. "This is done through locating and referring to the agency persons outside or elsewhere in the Federal service (the promotion angle) who have desirable qualifications and necessary eligibility. Selection of the candidate is not mandatory. “When referrals are made, the applicants so referred shall be considered for appointment along with other available applicants and employees, on the basis of their respective qualifications for the positions in accordance with applicable laws and regulations governing the appointment of applicants recruited directly by the agency." This is the "personal procurement priority" as laid down in the White House directive: "The following policy applies to the distribution of job opportunities reported to the Republican National Committee on recruitment Forms PM 2, PM 4 and PM 5. "a. To the Republican Senator or Senators from the State in which the job is located; and, "b. To the Republican Congressman in whose district the job is located; or, "c. To a Republican official in the State in which the job is located if there is no Republican Congressman in the district in which the job is located. "In each case the Republican Senator or Senators from the State in which the job is located will retain top recruitment priority. However, the Congressman or Republican State official will have complete freedom of action to proceed immediately to locate and refer a qualified candidate in the absence of a specific notice of exercise of recruitment priority from the Senator or Senators **** The Willis letter cautions the Republican leaders not to refer candidates to the local office of the agency where the jobs are located. It advises them to work through the Republican National Committee headquarters here which will in turn contact agency officials here. |