Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr. Hodges' appraisal, though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White House.

Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon owns a prize Monet, Femmes dans un Jardin.

Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

The talks were named after U. S. Treasury Secretary and former Under Secretary of State, Douglas Dillon, who first proposed the talks.

Others from Hope include former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty ; attorney Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ( 1945 – 1993 ); former Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor David L. Armstrong ; Gary Dee ; former Arkansas Secretary of State Kelly Bryant, PGA golfer Ken Duke, actress / vocalist Ketty Lester, and actress Melinda Dillon.

Diana Daniels-former Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Washington ( D. C .) Post, born in Dillon ; sister of John Eric Daniels

Clarence Douglas Dillon ( born Clarence Douglass Dillon ; August 21, 1909 – January 10, 2003 ) was an American diplomat and politician, who served as U. S. Ambassador to France ( 1953 – 1957 ) and as the 57th Secretary of the Treasury ( 1961 – 1965 ).

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, appointed Republican, Dillon Treasury Secretary.

Dillon remained Treasury Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson until 1965.

One of the many prominent trustees of the institution since has been C. Douglas Dillon, the United States Secretary of the Treasury under both Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

* C. Douglas Dillon 1960-1961-US Treasury Secretary, 1961 – 1965 ; Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

On March 25, 1964, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon announced that Silver Certificates would no longer be redeemable for silver dollars.

* C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to France

Groundbreaking took place on June 21, 1983 with participation by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, then Vice President George H. W. Bush and Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley.

Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley intended for the museum to serve as an outreach opportunity to bring more African Americans to the National Mall to visit Smithsonian museums.

Domhoff credited Lovett, Harvey Bundy and John McCloy with having a close working relationship ; and credited John F. Kennedy as accepting Lovett's advice to appoint Dean Rusk as Secretary of State, Robert McNamara as Defense Secretary, and C. Douglas Dillon for the Treasury.

* January 8: At the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building is begun, with ground-breaking by U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and the Secretary S. Dillon Ripley.

In March 1964, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon halted redemption of silver certificates for coined silver dollars ; during the following four years, silver certificates were redeemable in uncoined silver " granules.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

Commerce Secretary Hodges seems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic forecasters.

What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

The Secretary General must have, subject to the constitutional direction of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the power to act, to propose action and to organize action without being hobbled by advisers and assistants acting on someone else's instructions.

Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Comptroller General of the United States, as the case may be, shall find that any person is entitled to any such payment, after such payment shall have been received by such person, it shall be an absolute bar to recovery by any other person against the United States, its officers, agents, or employees with respect to such payment.

I have requested the Secretary of Defense to reexamine the roles and missions of the reserve components in relation to those of the active forces and in the light of the changing requirements of modern warfare.

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

Employer representatives have contended that the Secretary has gone beyond his authority by such a prohibition, on the grounds that the Wagner-Peyser Act requires only written notice to the prospective worker that a dispute exists.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.

Thus far, the cases which have come before the courts have involved only the issue of referral where the job is vacant due to a strike -- condition ( 1 ) in the Regulation of the Secretary.

Disraeli was to have been Home Secretary, with Stanley ( becoming the Earl of Derby later that year ) as Prime Minister.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

Bevin, Attlee's Foreign Secretary, famously stated that " We've got to have it and it's got to have a bloody Union Jack on it.

It is conceivable, according to historian Archie Brown, that Konayev and Shcherbytsky would rather have voted in favour of Viktor Grishin as General Secretary then Gorbachev.

He initially backed former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker for the presidential nomination, but when Franklin Roosevelt was chosen, Willkie supported him and contributed money to his campaign.

In January 1982, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

In 1967, he contributed to a top-secret study of classified documents regarding the conduct of the Vietnam War that had been commissioned by Defense Secretary McNamara.

In January 1982, former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is assisted by the Director of the Joint Staff, a three-star officer who assists the Chairman with the management of the Joint Staff, an organization composed of approximately equal numbers of officers contributed by the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Air Force, who have been assigned to assist the Chairman in providing to the Secretary of Defense unified strategic direction, operation, and integration of the combatant land, naval, and air forces.

Nevertheless, the controversy is speculated to have contributed to his resigning his position as president of Harvard University the following year, as well as costing Summers the job of Treasury Secretary in Obama's administration.

As Secretary of the Treasury, he was a principal architect and chief spokesman for Clinton's first budget which contributed to the first first federal budget surplus in 40 years, the lowest inflation and unemployment rates in 30 years, and the longest economic expansion since the 1960s.

The flood propelled Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was in charge of flood relief operations, into the national spotlight and set the stage for his election to the presidency, but indirectly contributed to his defeat four years later.

Morosi's appointment as Cairns's Principal Private Secretary, and the nature of her relationship with him, aroused intense media interest, and the affair contributed to Cairns's eventual dismissal from office and the fall of the government.

Crittenden's input is believed to have contributed significantly to the appointments of John M. Clayton as Secretary of State and Orlando Brown as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Schlesinger's insistence on higher defense budgets, his disagreements within the administration and with Congress on this issue, and his differences with Secretary of State Kissinger all contributed to his dismissal from office by President Ford in November 1975.

As HUD Secretary, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation ’ s public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation ’ s highest ever homeownership rate.

In October 1918, Erzberger entered the government as a Secretary of State after he had contributed to bring about the fall of Bethmann Hollweg.

Reagan later negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and together they contributed greatly to the end of the Cold War.

Maxwell argues that Foreign Affairs has attempted to whitewash even the nature of the historical controversy: " In his editorial response Hoge claims that Kissinger's and Rogers ' unhappiness was prompted by the ' damaging implication ' in my review that ' Rogers and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had contributed to the creation of a permissive environment for political violence by the Chilean government under Augusto Pinochet.

Each week, the show runs short commentaries, contributed by people from a variety of political perspectives, including former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, who served under the Clinton administration.

The Pinchot – Ballinger controversy, also known as the " Ballinger Affair ", was a dispute between U. S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U. S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U. S. conservation movement in the early 20th century.

From 1995 until 1997, Jean-Pierre Jouyet was a partner in Jeantet & Co, a French business law firm, which he left at the request of the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to become his Deputy Principal Private Secretary until 2000, during which he contributed to France ’ s entry into the Euro Zone.

As Assistant Secretary in charge of INR, as well as Acting Assistant Secretary ( 2000 – 2001 and 2003 – 2004 ), he served as principal adviser to the Secretary on intelligence-related issues, supervised analytical work on every country and region as well as transnational challenges such as terrorism and proliferation, ensured that activities undertaken by the Intelligence Community supported the President ’ s foreign policy, and contributed to coordinated intelligence judgments as a member of the National Foreign Intelligence Board ( NFIB ).

The Secretary of State for War insisted he could not approve either project while Bermuda contributed nothing to her own defence.

It has been noted that along with Clegg ( now serving as Deputy Prime Minister ) MPs who contributed to the Orange Book or are otherwise associated with the market liberal faction have occupied many positions in the Coalition Cabinet, including Vince Cable ( Business Secretary ), David Laws ( briefly Chief Secretary to the Treasury ), Danny Alexander ( Chief Secretary to the Treasury ), with others such as Ed Davey and Steve Webb also in ministerial posts, while it has been speculated that the more socially liberal Beveridge Group members are underrepresented in the Cabinet, perhaps signalling a ' takeover ' of the Liberal Democrats by the so-called " Orange Bookers ".