...soundly conceived and whether they represented reasonably beneficial investments of Federal tax receipts. The (First Hoover) Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, created in 1947, had several recommendations on this subject.13 The main report of the Commission called...

...and its effort to follow up on those recommendations because I would say the vast majority of the l49 recommenations made were recommendations that could...recommendations resulted in the Federal Records Act of l950. Under this law, central staff responsibility for the Government records management program was...

...know them today have been carried out within the Federal Government for the past 25 years. In 1949, the first Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the...maintenance and use, or disposition of Government records. (Records management involves continuous management controls covering the life cycle of records from...

...means of providing low-cost storage for inactive records not needed for permanent preservation. When the first Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government was established in 1948, Federal records holdings totaled 18.5 million cubic feet. The Federal Government...