The designation of a single coordinator with policy and program responsibility would eliminate many of these concerns. facilitate decisionmaking. and provide a focal point for contact by the Congress. State and local officials. voluntary agencies. and the private sector. I would note that 10 days before the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in 1975 and the opening of the first refugee center at Camp Pendleton. President Ford had directed that all Federal activities be coordinated through a single office and had named his Special Representative and Director of the Special Interagency Task Force. The record of that task force was exemplary.