Teams and Staff: Dwight Eisenhower's Innovations in the Structure and Operations of the Modern White House

Pressed by the post-war years' demands for more effective institutions in the Executive Office of the President, and spurred by the report of the First Hoover Commission and by his own front-line experience in government, Dwight Eisenhower lost no time in reshaping his White House Staff to meet these new needs. He in effect originated eighteen new White House staff elements (described in the following article), eleven of which have continued through most of the presidents who succeeded him. In this sense, Ike is the needs of the modern White House, the structures of which, because they meet the needs of the modern Chief Executive, tend to be replicated from presidency to presidency.