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Government’s Gobbledygook Gulch Narrows to One Man
Washington recounts Henry B. Quill a fictitious bureau cr at whose rise and fall exposes a billion dollar paperwork problem in federal bureaucracy. The piece traces how inflated phrasing and convoluted memos clog files, waste resources, and frustrate reforms, ending with Quill’s comically abrupt dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Quill
Congressional Committee
House Post Office
Civil Service
John Lindsay
New York
Robert Laird
Lindsay
John Brayton Redecker
Bureau of Inter-American Affairs
State Department
Military Operations Research Society
San Diego
Calif
Redecker
Quill
Flesh and Blood
Calvin Linton
George Washington University
Internal Revenue Service
Linton
Lucille Boyd
IRS
Jackie Sutton
Civil Service Commission
Paul Kunberger
Pentagon
Sam Bingman
Interstate Commerce Commission
House of Commons
People’s Coalition For Peace and Justice