President Nixon sees a 'cover up': Public relations in federal agencies

Agencies Early in his first term, President Nixon initiated an effort to make major cuts in thr number of personnel of federal agencies engaged in public relations as well as in the agencies' public relations budgets. He described those public relations employees as "covered up pretty properly." His goal was to "get the public relations complement in each Department reduced by 50 per cent regardless of what they are officially called." This article reports on the origin, implementation and denouement of President Nixon's war on public relations in public administration at the federal level of government.