the Committee on Administrative Management (commonly known as the Brownlow Committee) and charged it with developing proposals for reorganizing the executive branch. Besides himself, the three-person committee consisted of Louis Brownlow, and Luther Gulick. On January 10, 1937, the committee released its report. Famously declaring "The President needs help," the committee's report advocated a strong chief executive, including among its 37 recommendations significant expansion of the presidential staff, integration of managerial agencies into a single presidential office, expansion of the merit system, integration of all independent agencies into existing Cabinet departments, and modernization of federal accounting and financial practices. Retirement and death Charles Merriam retired from the University of Chicago in 1940, at the age of 66. He was the last director of the Lucy Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, acting in that capacity from 1940 until its merger with the Rockefeller Foundation in 1949. Charles Merriam died on January 8, 1953, at Hilltop Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, after a long illness. He was survived by his daughter and three sons. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The University of Illinois picks a distinguished academic to honor with the Charles E. Merriam Award for Outstanding Public Policy Research. Notable works Merriam was a prolific author during his lifetime. Some of his more notable works include: A History of American Political Theories. New York: MacMillan, 1903. The American Party System: An Introduction to the Study of Political Parties in the United States. New York: MacMillan, 1922. Non-Voting: Causes and Methods of Control. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1924. New Aspects of Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925. The Making of Citizens: A Comparative Study of Methods of Civic Training. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931. Civic Education in the United States. New York: Scribner, 1934. Notes References Footnotes Bibliography Adams, David K. Reflections on American Exceptionalism. Staffordshire, England: Ryburn, 1994. Adcock, Robert. Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Almond, Gabriel A. Ventures in Political Science: Narratives and Reflections. Boulder, Colo.: Rienner, 2002. Axelrod, Alan. Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Bachin, Robin Faith. Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Biddle, Jeff. "Social Science and the Making of Social Policy: Wesley Mitchell's Vision." In The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History