STANDARD FORM NO. 64 
Office Memorandum ® united states government 
to : Dr. Wetmore date: March 12 , 1951 
FROM : J. L. Keddy.| :; ^' 
subject: Negotiations with the Bureau of the Budget to obtain approval of the 
use of approximately $60,000 unobligated balance of funds allotted 
for construction of steel galleries for construction of astrophysical 
observatory station, Clark Mountain, California. 
I spent several days last week at the Bureau of the Budget with J. D. Hansen 
and J. Eigenmann educating them as to the need of their approval of the transfer 
of funds mentioned in the above subject. 
I obtained their approval and they have had one meeting with W. F. McCandless, 
Assistant Director in charge of estimates, and expect to have another meeting with 
the latter today. McCandless has the reputation of being a slow operator so that 
I am not surprised that he has requested time to think it over. I advised Mr. ■ 
Hansen this morning that I would be available all day today if they needed me. 
I have been surprised at the amount of time which has been required to sell 
the idea to Mr. Hansen and Mr. Eigenmann. However they are relatively new to our 
problems and despite the fact that the Budget Bureau has committed itself to the 
approval of the Clark Mountain project, they have been slow to acquiesce to the 
proposed transfer of funds. 
I still believe we are going to get their approval although it is taking much 
longer than I thought. 
I was unable to get Budget Bureau representatives to handle this matter infor¬ 
mally so we compromised by submitting formally in a letter what the whole project 
was about with the understanding that the letter would be handled on a person-to- 
person basis. Copy of the letter is attached. 
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