...intelligence. Here, too, his method centered on the fostering of competition. To quote Schlesinger again: His favorite technique was to keep grants of authority...and the power to make them, would remain with the President.6 Not only did he keep his organizations overlapping and divide authority among them, but...

...policy conflicts and permitting him to resolve them when they were ripe. Schlesinger has maintained: His favorite technique was to keep grants of authority...and the power to make them, would remain with the President.60 To secure trustworthy information, Roosevelt relied on a congeries of informants and personal...

...disorganized — his systeha of command to insure that important decisions were passed on to the top. His favorite technique was to keep grants of authority...power to make them, would remain with the President. This was in part on Roosevelt's side an instinct for selfpreservation; in part, too, the temperamental...

...disorganized—his system of command to insure that important decisions were passed on to the top. His favorite technique was to keep grants of authority...on the operating level; but no other method could reliably insure that in a large bureaucracy filled with ambitious men eager for power the decisions,...

...administration was often confusion and exasperation on the operating level; but no other method could reliably insure that in a large bureaucracy filled...and the power to make them, would remain with the President."1 The president's closest advisors were well aware of his approach. Secretary of War Henry...