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AFMD-81-38 1 (1981-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbtp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: F3l.TRCTED - Not to be released outside the Oener I Accountng Office except on the basis of specific approval REASI fthe Office of Congressional Relations. - . COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES B. T9 . 8- !WASHINGTON D.C. 2054M B---r96 8 62 MARCH 6, 1981 The Honorable Silvio 0. Conte, House of Representatives The Honorable Robert H. Michel, House of Representatives 114871 The Honorable Clarence E. Miller, House cf Representatives Subject: LReview of White House and Executive Agency Expenditures for Selected Travel, Entertainment, and Personnel Cost!(AFMD-8l-38) On October 13, 1980, you asked us to review selected expendi- tures of the White House and various Federal agencies to determine if appropriated funds were used before the 1980 elections to advanc the political candidacy of the incumbent President. You also asked us to provide information on employees temporarily detailed to the White House from other agencies. In our October 20, 1980, interim report we answered your question regarding funding used for certain entertainment expenses and provided partial responses to your other questions. This, our final report, addresses certain travel ex- penses of the President, Vice President, and other administration officials; the procedures used to prevent misuse of appropriations7 and the White House use of other agencies' personnel. The overriding question raised by your request was whether travel, speechmaking, and public appearances by senior-level offi- cials (including the President and the Vice President), and other personnel actions that may take place during a Presidential cam- paign and may directly or indirectly benefit the campaign, con- stitute an improper use of appropriated funds. This question has been raised by members of both major political parties on various occasions incident to a Presidential campaign. The question poses the very difficult problem of distinguishing between permissible official activities for which appropriated funds are available and other activities that ate similar in nature but are for purely po- litical or partisan purposes. The problem becomes particularly troublesome when those activities tend to increase during the late stages of a campaign. As to official activities, we have long held that the President and his Cabinet and other subordinates have a duty to inform the public about Government policies, and c policymaking officials traditionally have utilized Government re- sources to disseminate information in explanation and defense cf those policies. (4 e ,-'-3,(905029), ,

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