22802 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE November 26 RECESS UNTIL 10 A.M. TOMORROW Kennedy, late the President of the United STATUS OF THE APPROPRIATION States, and a former .Representative and for BILLS 88TH .CONGRESS, lST SES Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. President, if mer Senator fron:. the State of Massachusetts. SION there is no further business to come be Resolv~d. That in recognition of his illus fore the Senate, I now move, under the trious statesmanship, his leadership in na Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, I ask previous order, that the Senate stand in tional and world a1ralr8, and his distinguished unanimous consent to extend my re recess until 10 a.m. tomorrow. public service to his State and the Nation, marks at this point in the RECORD and the Presiding Officer of 'the senate appoint include a tabulated statement of the ap The motion was agreed to; and till awaiting the WORK PLANS UNDER THE WATER necessary authorization legislation-in Psalm 85: 8: I will hear what God the volving budget requests of $4,840,030,000. Lord will say, for He will speak peace SHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD $184,869,965 has been cut from the unto His people. PREVENTION ACT $2,160,472,456 of supplemental budgets in Almighty God, as we again assemble The SPEAKER laid before the House · this session for the fiscal year 1963. for prayer in these strange and sad days, the following communication; which was As to the main budget, f-or fiscal 1964, we earnestly beseech Thee that we may read and referred to the Committee on the table discloses four bills signed by hear and heed Thy voice speaking peace Appropriations: the President, disposing of $61,918,577,- unto us through Thy holy word, for we . HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES, 000 of his budget requests for appropria penitently acknowledge that we are trou COMMITl'EE ON AGBICULTURJ!, tions. They are Interior, Treasury-Post bled in spirit, greatly disturbed and ap Washington, D.C., October 31, 19U. Office, Labor-HEW, and Defense, and prehensive, and often discouraged as we HON JOHN w. MoCoRMACJt, they were cut by $2,229,557,000. And, In face the unknown future. The Speaker, the aggregate, they are below comparable Grant that we may not forget that The House of Representatives, appropriations for fiscal 1963 by $339,- Thou wert our help in all the far-o:ff ·yes Washington, D.C. 000,000. terdays, drawing us to Thy self by Thy DEAR Ma. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the provi sions of section 2 of the Watershed Protec The conference agreement on the leg grace and love, giving Thy healing balm tion and Flood Prevention Act, as amended, islative bill is pending in the Senate, hav to hearts that were bruised and broken, the Committee on Agriculture on October 80, ing been adopted by the House at a figure bestowing Thy pardoning grace for our 1963, considered the following work plans $13,925,000 below the budget requests sins and shortcomings, renewing our transmitted to you by executive communi but, owing to some nonrecurring con strength and courage for our heavy cation and referred to this committee and struction items, about $18,000,000 above duties and responsibilities. unanimously approved each of such plans. last year. As we go forth into the hours of each The work plans involved are~ The agriculture bill is in conference. new day, may our minds and hearts be STATE, WATERSHED, AND EXECUTIVE ·The District of Columbia and indepen blessed with Thy divine spirit, which COMMUNICATIONS dent oftlces bfils are awaiting conference. alone can deliver them from all thoughts Texas: Big Creek, No. 2571, 87th Congress. Three other bills-State-Justice-Com and feelings of hatred and violence and Minnesota: Crooked Creek, No. 1234, 88th merce-Judiciary, the military construct remove those antagonisms and antip Congress. ion bill, and the public works bill are athies which divide soul from soul. Colorado: Indian Wash, No. 1899, 87th being processed in the Senate committee. May the President, our Speaker, the Congress. Minnesota: Joe River, No. 1234, 88th Con The House has cut $5,420,333,026 from Members of Congress, and all our people gress. the .$91,817,407,145 of budget requests be drawn together in one high and holy Arkansas: Mud Creek, No. 1234, 88th Con ee>nsider-ed In the 11 regular bllis for aspiration to know Thy truth and to do gress. fiscal 1964 and will substantially increase Thy will faithfully. Tennessee: Thompson Creek, (supple that aggregate on the foreign aid bill. "0 Lord, support us all the day long mental), No. 895, 88th Congress. It now seems a certainty that Congress of our troublous life, until the shadows Tennessee: Weatherford-Bear Creek, No. will conclude the appropriations business lengthen and the evening comes and the 1284, 88th Congress. with a very substantial eut below the re busy world is hushed and the fever of Sincerely yours, quests and also below last year's appro life is over and our work is done. Then HAROLD D. CoOLEY, priations. And we are determined, in in Thy mercy grant us a safe lodging Chairman. collaboration with the other body, to and a holy rest and peace at the last." continue to do everything we can to con Hear us in Christ's name. Amen. clude the work as expeditiously as cir A DAY .TO BE SET ASIDE LATER TO cumstances permit. EULOGIZE OUR LATE PRESIDENT, No review of the aggregate probability THE JOURNAL JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY of total appropriations for the session Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask can omit the approximately $12,000,000,- The Journal of the proceedings of yes 000-using a round amount because it terday was read and approved. unanimous consent to address the House 1 does not stand still-of appropriations for minute. recurring for fiscal 1964 The SPEAKER. Is there objection automatically under permanent law. That is not in MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE to the request of the gentleman from the table to follow because it requires A message from the Senate by Mr. Oklahoma? no annual action by the Congress. The McGown, one of its clerks, announced There was no objection. principal expense is the interest on the that the Senate had passed the follow Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I take national debt, tentively estimated at ing resolution: this time only to advise the Members that $10,020,000,000 in the January budget. S. RES.228 we plan to set aside a full day at a later but more recently 11.gured to approximate Be30lved, That the Senate has learneHouse
Bill No. Title House action compared with- Budget Dateand Amount as Amount reported Date Amount as estimates to report reported . compared with passed passed House number budget estimates Budget Amount estimates reported
1963 SUPPLEMENTALS B.J. Res. 284 Supplemental, Agriculture_------2$508,172, 000 Feb. 26 $508, 172, 000 Feb. 27 $508, 172, 000 (No. 35) ------· B.R. 11517 Supplemental. __ • ______.-_. ______------__ • ______1, 641, 507, 106 Apr. 5 988, 756, 506 -$652, 750, 600 Apr. 10 1, 438, 691, 506 -$202, 815, 600 +$449, 935, 000 (No.198) Public works acceleration. ______• ______(500, 000, 000) ------( ______) All other•• ___ -----______------______(-500, 000, 000) ------ (450, 000, 000) ( -50, 000, 000) ( +450, 000, 000) (1, 141, 507, 106) ------(988, 756, 506) (-152, 750, 600) ------(988, 691, 506) ( -152, 815, 600) (-65,000) 1~~~~~~-1-~~~~~-1-~~~~~~ Total, 1963 supplementals ______------___ ------2, 149, 679, 106 1, 496, 928, 506 -652, 750, 600 l, 946, 863, 506 -202, 815, 600 +449, 935, 000 1======1 1964 APPROPRIATIONS B.R., 5279 Interior ______--••••••••• ~------• ------•• ---• ------• -• -• -·------998,009,000 Mar. 28 929, 690, 200 -68, 318, 800 Apr. 2 922, 625, 200 -75, 383, 800 -7,065,000 ' (No.177) Loan authorization·------·------·-·------(13, 000, 000) ------(6, 000, 000) (-7,000,000) ------(6,000,000) Treasury-PostContract authority Omce ______-----___ ------_ (17, 500, 000) ------(-17, 500, 000) ------~------(~1~: ~: ~~ :::::::::::::::::: B.R. 5366 6, 146,842,000 Apr. 1 5,997,026,000 -149, 816, 000 Apr. 4 5, 997,026,000 -149, 816, 000 ------(No.179) B.R. 5888 Labor-HEW•• ·--·------·-----·-··-····-··-····-·-;··-··------ 5, 759, 489, 000 Apr. 25 5, 449, 988, 000 -309, 501, 000 Apr. 30 5, 449, 981, 000 -309, 508, 000 -7,000 (No. 246) B.R. 6754 A.griculture •••••• ----_. _------·------· ···--· __ •• __ ----·---····------· ----- 6, 368, 755, 000 :rune 3 5, 979, 457' 000 -389, 298, 000 June 6 5, 979, 457, 000 -389, 298, 000 ------(No.355) Loan authorizations ___ ----__ • __ ------_------· ______------3 (855, 000, 000) ------ 3 (855, 000, 000) ------3 (855, 000, 000) ------B.R. 6868 Legislative------~------' 148, 580, 245 June 6 ' 140, 038, 919 -8, 541, 326 June 11 ' 140, 038, 919 -8, 541, 326 ------(No. 369) H.R. 7063 State, Justice, Commerce, judiciarY------2, 159, 891, 900 June 14 1, 851, 269, 900 -308, 622, 000 June 18 1, 851, 269, 900 -308, 622, 000 (No. 388) H.R. 7179 Defense ____ -_-- ___ • ___ --•• ------• -----• ----_, ------49, 014, 237, 000 June 21 47, 092, 209, 000 -1, 922, 028, 000 June 26 47, 082, 009, 000 -1, 932, 228, 000 -10, 200, 000 .. (No. 439) B.R. 7431 District of Columbia------·------(289, 581, 800) July 8 (284, 286, 800) (-5, 295, 000) July 11 (284, 286, 800) (-5, 295, 000) ------• (No. 499) Federal paymenL------·------ 34, 868, 000 ------32, 868, 000 -2, 000, 000 ------32, 868, 000 -2, 000, 000 ------Loan authorizations------ (8, 000, 000) ------(8, 000, 000) ------(8, 000, 000) ------H.R. 8747 Independent omces_ ------14, 658, 1188, 000 Oct. 7 13, 102, 818, 700 -1, 555, 769, 300 Oct. 10 13, 102, 718, 700 -1, 555, 869, 300 -100, 000 (No. 824) H.R. 9139 Military construction ___ ------______------___ ------_ 1,966,400,000 Nov. 14 1, 562, 964, ()()() -403, 436, 000 Nov. 18 1, 562, 964, 000 -403, 436, 000 (No. 901) B.R. 91{0 Public Works _____ ----______: ______------~------4,561, 747,000 Nov. 15 4, 276, 116, 400 -285, 630, 600 Nov. 19 4, 276, 116, 400 -285, 630, 600 (No. 902) 1~~~~~~-1 1-~~~~~-1-~~~~~~1 Total, 1964 appropriations·------··------·-··--- 91, 817, 407, 145 86, 414, 446, 119 -5, 402, 961, 026 86, 397, 074, 119 -5, 420, 333, 026 -17,372,000 93, 967, 086, 251 87, 911, 374, 625 -6, 055, 711, 626 88, 343, 937. 625 -5, 623, 148, 626 +432, 563, 000 (876, 000, 000) ------(869, 000, 000) (-7, 000. 000) ------(869, 000, 000) (-7, 000, 000) ------ (17, 500, 000) ------(-17, 500, 000) ------(-17, 500, 000) ------
1 Tentatively estimated in January budget at about $11,500,000,000 for fiscal year 1964 (subject to change 3 Includes $360,000,000 for Farmers Home Administration loans currently made from loan repayments in lieu probably upward). of former practice of public debt borrowings from Treasury. •Shifted from budget for 1964, which was reduced accordingly. ' Excludes Senate items. ' The appropriation bills, 88th Cong., 1st sess., aa of Nov. S6, 1.983-Continued
[Does not include back-door appropriations or permanent appropriations 1 under previous legislation. Does include lndefinlte appropriations carried in annual appropriations bills]
Senate Conference Public Law
. r Senate action compared with- Date Increase or BWNo. Title Budget Date filed decrease Date estimates and Amount as Date Amount as and Amount as compared Num· - ap-_ to Senate report reported passed passed Budget report approved to budget ber proved number estimates House action number estimates td date " r i, ,. 1963 Sui>PLEMEN'l'ALS
H~. Res,. 284 Supplemental, Agriculture...... $508, 172, 000 Feb. 28 $508, 172, 000 Mar. 4 $508, 172, 000 ·--~------·- 88-1 Mar. G (No. 9) $508, 172, 000 ------· ------H.R. .6517 Supplemental...______1, 652, 300, 456 Apr. 24 1, 4S6, 096, 841 May 1, 488, 683, 841 -$163, 616, 615 +$49, 992, 336 May 6 1, 467, 430, 491 -$184, 869, 965 88-25 May 17 (No. 155) (No. 275) Public works acceleration...... (500, 000, 000) ------· (450, 000, 000) ·------·-- (450, 000, 000) (-50, 000, 000) ------May 31 (450, 000, 000) (-50, 000, 000) ••••••••••••••••• (No. 290) All other•• ------·-·-··-- (1, 152, 300, 456) ·------(1, 036, 096, 841) ------· (1, 038, 683, 841) (-113, 616, 615) (+49, 992, 335) ------(1, 017, 430, 491) (-134, 869, 965) ----·--- ·····---· Total, 1968 supplementals••• ______2, 160, 472, 156 1, 994, 268, 841 1, 996, 855, 841 - 163, 616, 615 +49, 992, 335 1, 975, 602, 491 -184, 869, 965
196' APPBOPBIATIONS H.R. 6279 Interior •• _.---·------·--·------·-··-- 998, 009, 000 May 22 979. 093, 400 May 28 979, 693, 400 -18, 315, 600 +57, 068, 200 1uly 11 952, 456, 500 -45, 552, 500 88-79 1uly 26 . (No. 181) (No. 551) Loan authorization______(13, 000, 000) ------(6, 000, 000) --·------(6. 000, 000) (-7, 000. 000) ------· Contract authority______(17, 500, 000) ------·------(~1;: ~: ~~ :::::::::::::::: :::::::::: -----~~~~~~~ (-17, 500, 000) ------ H.R. 11366 Treasury-Po_st Office...... 6, 146, 842, 000 May 3 6, 074, 216, 250 May 8 6, 069, 466, 250 -77, 375, 750 +12, 440, 250 May 28 6, 045; 466, 000 -101, 376, 000 88-39 lune 13 (No. 168) (No. 303) H.R. ,li888 Labor-HEW••••••• ------·····-- 5, 759, 489, 000 Aug. 1 5, 494, 627, 250 Ang. 7 5, 495, 827, 250 -263, 661, 750 +45, 846, 250 (Sept. 25 5, 471, 087, 500 -288, 401, 500 88-136 Oct. 11 (No. 383) No. 774) • H.R. 6754 Agriculture______6, 368, 755, 000 Sept. 12 6, 046, 738, 340 Sept. 30 6, 047, 988, 340 -320, 766, 660 +68, 031, 340 ------______, ___ ------· ------(No. 497) H.R. 6868 Legi~':ti°v:~~~~~~~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::: I <::m:~) -JUne-25" a <~:~;:J> -iillie_26_ • <~:~;~> <±~g:~:~) <:j:~;~:m> -Nov.·12· ---ii68;293;oo9· -·-::13;925;as1· :::::::: ::::::::: (No. 313) (No. 896) H.1.t. 7063 State, Justice, Commerce, judiciary______------·------___ ; ____ _ H.R, 7179 Defense.-·--····------·--- 49, 014, 237, 000 Sept. 17 47, 371, 407, 000 Sept. 24 47, 389, 707, 000 -1, 674, 030, 000 +257, 698, 000 Oct. 7 47, 220, 010, 000 -1, 794, 2Z/, 000 88-149 Oct. 17 (No. 502) (No. 812) H.R. 7431 District of Columbia______(328, 724, 000) Nov. 6 (319, 582, 825) Nov. 18 .(319, 587, 785) (-9, 136, 215) (+35,300, 985) ------···------···· (No. 632) ~:-:1uf:lrfZ:1fi~D8::::::::::::::::::::::::: c~: ~: ~> :::::::::: <~: =: ~> :::::::::: cg:=: ggg> ----=~:~:~- c+~~: ~: ~> :::::::::: :::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: :::::::: ::::::::: H.R. 8747 Independent offices______14, 658, 588, 000 Nov. 13 13, 390, 214, 650 Nov. 20 13, 300, 214, 600 -1, 358, 373, 350 +197, 495, 950 ------·------(No. 641) H.R. 9139 Military construction.. ______------'------H.R. 9140 Public Works ••••. ------·------Total, 1964 appropriations..• ··------~ ------83, 181, 006, 450 ------79, 572, 437, 959 ------79, 449, 037, 959 -3, 731, 968, 491 +742, 314, 14.0 ------59, 857, 313, 069 -2, 243, 482, 381 ------Total, all approprlatio?s·------85, 341, 478, 906 ------81, 566, 706, 800 ------81, 445, 893, 800 -3, 895, 585, 106 +792,306, 475 ------61, 832, 915, 560 -2, 428, 352, 346 ------Total, loan authorizat1ons. ------(888, 800, 000) ------(906, 800, 000) ------(906, 800, 000) (+is, 000, 000) (+37, 800, 000) ------(6, 000, 000) (-7, 000, 000) ------Total, contract authority______(17, 500, 000) ------(-17, 500, 000) ------· (-17, 500, 000) ------
• Co~ference report not yet acted upon by Senate. Prepared by Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. NOTE.-Totals re1lect ~ounts approved and comparisons at latest stage of congressional action on each bill. 1963 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-· HOUSE 22805 CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR consideration of the bill United States of America fornia? weapons field. in Congress assembled., That the joint resolu Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, a parlia At least one of the projects will also tion of October 30, 1963 (Public Law 88-162), mentary inquiry. Is this bill to be assist in maintaining our readiness for is hereby amended by striking out "Novem passed by unanimous consent, or is this the resumption of atmospheric testing. ber 30, 1963" and inserting in lieu thereof unanimous consent to consider the bill? In justification for project 64-d-13, a "January 31, 1964." The SPEAKER. This is unanimous radiochemistry building at the Lawrence Mr. CANNON. Mr. Speaker, I ask consent to consider the bill. Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, unanimous consent that the joint res Mr. GROSS. I thank the Chair. Calif., the AEC stated: olution be considered in the House as in The SPEAKER. If the request is This project 1s needed to provide immedi Committee of the Who1e. granted the bill will be considered in the ate improvements to the physical plant of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to House as in Committee of the.Whole. the laboratory with a view to insuring a the request of the gentleman from Mis Is there objection to the request of the high level o! nuclear weapons research and souri? gentleman from California? development progress, coupled with the There was no objection. readiness to resume full scale weapons test There was no objection. ing in the atmosphere on short notice. Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I move to The Clerk read the bill as follows: strike out the last word . . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Finally, this bill provides facilities Mr. Speaker, can the gentleman say Representatives of the United States of which will help to assure a comprehen whether this will be the last continuing America in Congress assembled, That section sive and aggressive underground nuclear resolution or will we go into the year of 101 of Public Law 88-72 ls hereby amended testing program, which was another im by striking the figure "$172,562,000" and in portant safeguard outlined in connec 1964 with another such resolution? serting in lieu thereof the figure "$190,- Mr. CANNON. It will be the last res 507,000". tion with the treaty. Project 64-d-21, olution. It provides for the period end SEC. 2. Section lOl(d) of Public Law 88-72 which provides for additions to the con ing January 31, 1964. is amended by adding at the end thereof: trol plant facilities at the Nevada test Mr. GROSS. From the gentleman's "Project 64--d-10, occupational health lab site, will help to increase the rate and long service in the House of Representa oratory, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, efficiency of our underground weapons tives, has this sort of situation ever be New Mexico, $1,650,000. testing and improve the collection of fore obtained when Congress closed out "Project 64-d.-11, high temperature chem test data. istry faclllty, Los Alamos Scientific Labora 7 months of a fiscal year under such cir tory, New Mexico, $1,435,000. Admittedly, Mr. Speaker, this bill is cumstances? Can the gentleman recall "Project 64-d-12, plutonium research .sup only a first step. Much more remains to any previous experience such as this? port building, Los Alamos Scientific Labora be done. In view of the extreme impor Mr. CANNON. This is the longest tory, New Mexico, $655,000 .. tance of the safeguards program to the time for which continuing resolutions "Project 64-d-13, radiochemistry building, national security, the Joint Committee have provided within immediate recol Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, California, on Atomic Energy intends to maintain lection. $5,900,000. a close and continuing surveillance over Mr. GROSS. Can we be sure these "Project 64-d.-14, hazards control addition, the activities of the Atomic Energy Com present appropriation bills that are Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, C.alifornla, mission and the Department of Defense pending and in conference will be $1,000,000. "Project 64-d-15, plant engineering and in this area. cleared by January 31? Can the gentle services building, Lawrence Radiation Lab Mr. Speaker, this bill was reported by man, as chairman of the Committee on oratory, California, $1,400,000. the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Appropriations, give us any assurance "Project 64-d.-16, west cafeteria addition, without dissent. It was passed in the about that? Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, California, other body last Thursday. I urge its Mr. CANNON. No one can predict $255,000. prompt approval by the House in order with certainty what the House and the "Project 64-d-17, craft shop addition, to assure timely consideration of the Senate will do. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Calltornla, funds involved by the Appropriations Mr. GROSS. I am sure the gentleman $200,000. Committees of both Houses and the is correct in that statement. "Project 64-d-18, development laboratory, Congress. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to this reso Sandia Base, New Mexico, $3,780,000: Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, I move lution. It is a sad commentary on the "Project 64-d-19, explosive fac111ties, San dia Base, New Mexico, $540,000. to strike out the last word. legislative process when 6 to 7 months "Project 64-d-20,_ classified technical re Mr. Speaker, I wish to state that the of a fiscal year are permitted to elapse ports building addition, Sandia Base, New consideration of this bill by the Joint without appropriations having been made Mexico, $500;000. Committee on Atomic Energy was in de for certain agencies and departments. "Project 64-d.-21, control point additions, tail. The recommendation of the joint These continuing resolutions -continue Nevada Test Site, $630,000." committee was unanimous. The other spending at rates established in a fiscal body has. passed the bill. year which ended June 30, 1963. This is Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I wrong and I am opposed to it. move to strike out the last word. The reason for it being brought up The joint resolution was ordered to be Mr. Speaker, the bill before us now, at the present moment is that this au engrossed and read a third time, was S. 2267, provides an authorization of thorization must be made so the funds read the third time, and passed,. and a $17,945,000 to the Atomic Energy Com.: may be included iri the public works mission for 12 new construction projeets appropriation bill now under considera motion to reconsider was laid on the tion by the other body. table. necessary for the implementation of the safeguards enumerated by the President Ordinarily, a continuing resolution in connection with the limited nuclear would be effective -in many matters. SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORIZATION test ban treaty. However, the subject matter of this sup OF - APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE This bill, and its identical compariion, plemental authorization has to do with ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, H.R. 8971, was considered by the joint those safeguards which the Joint Chiefs FISCAL YEAR 1964 committee in hearings held on Octo of Staff and which everybody felt re Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I ask ber 31, 1963. The committee is of the. quired under the circumstances and con unanimous . consent for the immediate- opinion that this bill represents an im- ditions of the nuclear test ban. treaty. 22806 CONGRESSIONAL' RECORD - ·HOUSI! November 26 I think it is well that we .recall what :fined. · Therefore we cannot authorize attra_ct,_retain; _and ins-µr~ the continued ap~ for the appropriations needed to pur plication of our human -scientific resources ,those safeguards are because the re.; to these programs on which continued prog sponsibility for implementing them-:ts chase them. It is our responsibility both ress in nuclear technology depends, . not alone with the Department of De to see that they are defined and that fense and is not alone with the Atomic the money be provided without undue Mr. Speaker, I am satisfied from the Energy Commission nor does it rest alone delay. testimony I have heard as a member of with the Bureau of the Budget or the . Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Subcommittee on Legislation of the President. The responsibility rests also unanimous consent to extend my remarks Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that with the Congress of the United States. at this point in the RECORD and include the construction projects which will be It was unanimously agreed that in extraneous matter. financed by virtue of the funds which light of the admitted risks and hazards The SPEAKER. Is there objection are to be made available under this. au of the test ban treaty four safeguards to the request of the gentleman from thorization . and appropriation are would be required. · Illinois? heeded to modernize, update, and ex The first safeguard for the national There was no objection. p~nd the kind of laboratory facilities security of the United States was the Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise :which will enable us to carry out the in continuing conduct of comprehensive in support of Senate bill, S. 2267, and te:pt and purpose mentioned in safe underground nuclear test programs. H.R. 8971, to authorize supplemental ap guard (b). I am convinced that the The second safeguard was the mainte propriations .for the Atomic Energy "continued application of our human nance of the vitality of our nuclear labo Commission for fiscal year 1964. This scientific resources" depends on the ratories and insuring they are manned legislation would authorize $17,945,000 Jtvailability, of adequate physical plant by top flight scientific personnel in order for the construction of 12 new facilities, and facilities as contemplated in these necessary for the nuclear weapons de- projects. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I that nuclear technology in the United urge the approval of this legislation. States should not fall behind. velopment program. · It is important also to note at this The bill was ordered to be read a third The third safeguard was the main time, was read the third time, and passed: tenance of an adequate detection system point, that through the reprograming of operating funds the Atomic Energy A motion to reconsider was laid on the to Dl.Onitor any possible violations of the table. treaty as well to :QJ.onitor insofar as Commission intends to add an additional as $109,800,000 to its operating budget in A similar House bill May 21, 1945 . loftier peaks of contentment, dignity, The report of the Committee on the Ju COPIES OF REPORT TO ACCOMPANY diciary, dated April 26, 1945, reads as CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963 and brotherhood. I think it not amiss to make some men follows in its entirety: Mr. ROGERS of Colorado. Mr. tion here of the part of our Capitol The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom £peaker, I oft'er a resolution and ask for Police, especially in the long hours of was referred the bill .(H.R. 2966) authorizing its immediate consideration. the night .when men, women, and chil the President of the United States to award The Clerk read as follows: dren came from many sections of the posthumously a Congressional Medal of HOUSE RESOLUTION 572 Honor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after country to pass, with tears and prayers, consideration, report the sazµe favorably to Resolved, That there be printed for the use by the casket of President Kennedy lying the House with the recommendation that of the Committee on the Judiciary, House in the rotunda of the Capitol. The the bill do pass. of Representatives, two thousand additional Capitol Police worked around the clock, copies of Report No. 914 to accompany H.R. and their many courteous and helpful The language of this bill, although 7152, proposed Civil Rights Act of 1963, 88th written 18 years ago upon the occasion ·Congress, first session. attentions to our constituents did not go unnoticed. They did their part in full of another President's untimely passing, The resolution was agreed t.o: when the heart of all our people was is-by remarkable coincidence-a perfect A moUon to reconsider was laid on the brpken and in a common grief, we were expression of the reasons why this award table. being drawn closer together than ever should be made. Its allusion to "new we had been. frontiers of freedom" was almost pro .phetic. I hope that my colleagues will ADDITIONAL COPIES OF CONGRES see fit to express in this manner the SIONAL RECORD OF NOVEMBER 25, ·highest sentiment of our esteem for our 1963 CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR fallen President. Mr. BURLESON. Mr. Speaker, I ask TO JOHN F. KENNEDY unanimous consent to address the House Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, I ask for 1 minute and to revise and extend my unanimous consent to extend my remarks SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN NAME OF remarks. at this paint in the RECORD and include THE LATE PRESIDENT- The SPEAKER. Is there objection extraneous matter. to the request of the gentleman from The SPEAKER. Is there objection Mrs. GREEN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, Texas? to the request of the gentleman from I ask unanimous consent to extend my There was no objection. California? remarks at this Point in the. RECORD~ Mr. BURLESON. Mr. Speaker, I feel There was no objection. The SPEAKER. .Is there objection I should advise the membership of the. Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, 2 to the request of the gentlewoman from House that it has been decided by the years, 10 months, and 6 days ago, John Oregon? Joint Committee on Printing that by Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as There was no objection. reason of the unusual format of. yester the 35th President of the United States. Mrs. GREEN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, day's RECORD an additional printing will In an inaugural address which has al in the last few days all American citi be ordered from the Government Print ready become one of the classic expres zens have felt a hopefulness in this pe ing omce. Tomorrow morning, each sions of dedication to our Nation's ideals, riod of great national tragedy. So many Member will have delivered to his omce 50 he said, "Ask not what your country have asked "What can I do?" "How can additional copies of yesterday's RECORD. can do for you-ask what you can do for -I help?" Just yesterday Nina Blixseth, If there are requests for more copies, your country." ·the president of the Kennedy Club in omce calls should be made t.o the CoN Now, John Kennedy is gone-struck Oregon, phoned and through her tears GRESSIONAL RECORD Clerk in the Capitol. down in the service of the country he _asked for advice on what they might do He has been instructed to comply with loved so well. to help carry on the program President reasonable requests as long as the extra The tragedy of this untimely loss has Kennedy had started. They had a few supply is available. caused an unprecedented outpouring of hundred dollars in their treasury and grief, not only from his countrymen, but they were so anxious that somehow, indeed from all the peoples of the world. somewhere those funds would be in- COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' So much has been said-so little can . vested in something meaningful-in AFFAIRS be done. The assassin's bullet cannot be ·something living and vital. We talked Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask recalled. But the Congress can act for of his visits in Oregon, of things which unanimous consent that the Committee the Nation in fitting recognition of the 'he had said and recommendations that on Veterans' Affairs have until inidnight supreme sacrifiCe made by our Com he had made. And to. Mrs. Blixseth I tonight to file certain reports. mander in Chief in our Nation's service. suggested that through the joint eft'orts 22808 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE November 26 of private groups and Congress, 'schol These banking questionnaires have, of served long and well the people and business arships might be established that would course, aroused a great deal of interest of our country's small towns and cities. ·We recognize that these banks-your banks, gen be known as the John Fitzgerald Ken in the banking community and in the tlemen-have a right to a compJetely fair nedy Memorial Award for Academic Ex financial community generally. For this chance to survive and prosper 11-nd to con cellence. And that a contribution to reason I thought it might be appropriate tinue to serve your local communities. . this kind of a program would be·a fitting to insert in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a What we are all interested in is doing a testimonial in honor of the memory of recent speech of mine discussing the pur good job of our very heavy responsibility; for our late President. poses of these questionnaires. This providing proper, up-to-date panking laws. His words still ring so clearly "an in speech was made to a convention of the What we want, gentlemen-all of us-is to Iowa Bankers Association, at Des Moines, maintain the solvency and liquidity of the vestment in education is at the same banking community, and maintain banking time the most profitable investment that on Octobe: 21, 1963, and is as foll?ws: laws which will permit your banks to better society can make and the greatest re PuRPOSES OF OUR BANKING SURVEY serve the needs of your communities for the ward that it can confer-the future of (An address to the Iowa Bankers Association b~nefit of both your communities and your any country which is dependent on the by Representative WRIGHT PATMAN, Demo banks-not to bring about bank failures. will and wisdom of its citizens is dam crat, of Texas, chairman, Committee on Experience has taught us that unrestricted aged, and irreparably damaged, when Banking and Currency, U.S. House of Rep entry into banki-ng is not compatible with a ever any of its children is not educated resentatives, Des Moines, Iowa, October 21, healthy banking community. No serious stu to the fullest extent of his capacity." 1963) dent of banking would suggest, I think, that It is a wonderful experience to be in Iowa anybody and everybody should be allowed to As we turn now to the future, we at· this bountiful season of the year. And it open a bank, at any time and at any place, should be mindful that "the future is is both an honor and a deep pleasure to meet as he may open a retail grocery. ·It has now what men make of it." I am introduc with the Iowa Bankers Association. -been a hundred years since Congress estab ing legislation to establish a program of A few months ago I made a speech in which lished the office of the Comptroller of the scholarships for academic excellence in I said I thought there should be more bank Currency and vested him with powers_ to memory of our late President. The John failures. charter national banks. And it has been This was at the dedication of the new even longer that many of the States have Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Award for been chartering State banks. Academic Excellence will consist of a building which houses the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in Washington, where With Government controlling entry into $1,000 scholarship and certificate to be a lot of FDIC examiners were present. banking, it is always possible, of course, that awarded to the young men and women Right after the speech, some of the exam competition might be stifled. Th~ the his of this Nation who each year rank high iners sent me a message that if I really toric mission of Government bank chartering est in a national competitive examina wanted more bank failures, they could help has been to avoid two pitf.alls: loose. entry tion. This will help them and encourage me out on that. into banking which would lead to wholesale others to appreciate and obtain the "life I got their message, and I think the bank failures and troubles for the whole economy; examiners also got my message. But from and too little entry, leading to restricted serv treasures of our open society" which ices or a tendency toward a monopoly in were so eloquently described by our late the letters and editorials my remarks in spired, I judge that my message went over banking. President. the heads of a great many bankers. The A necessary counterpart of Government And let us never forget that "Educa point I was making was that I feel the bank regulation of entry is, of course, Government tion is the keystone in the arch of free examiners should interfere a little less in the super~ision of mergers. Bank mergers also dom and progress." loan and investment decisions by the banks, have repercussions in the overall. solvency and give a little more freedom to the good and liquidity of the banking system and its judgment of the bankers in their decisions. ability to serve the community in general. In addition, there have been several other I would regret deeply the failure of any Government intrusions into the banking sys PURPOSE OF THE BANKING SURVEY bank. But I think yve would all regret it BEING MADE BY THE COMMITTEE tem which carry. with them other necessary more if the banks lost all opportunity to fail. Government regulation. One of these, the ON BANKING AND CURRENCY Where there is no opportunity to fail, there Federal Reserve System, is necessary for an Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask is also no opportunity to really succeed. elastic supply of money and credit which unanimous consent to extend my remarks Let me add that I intend no reflection ·does not also lead to runaway inflation in at this point in the RECORD and include upon the FDIC examiners or the other bank periods of economic boom, or to a . general examiners. They are highly competent men collapse of the money supply in times of a speech. and deeply dedicated to their work. But I business recession. The SPEAKER. Is there objection do not think that they can manage the affairs Another is the FDIC, which has done what to the request of the gentleman from ol the banks as well as the private managers the Federal Reserve is not able to do; namely, Texas? can; and even if they could, it would be -to prevent unwarranted losses of confidence There was no objection. wrong for them to do it. on the part of depositors, leading to bank I have no doubt that my life insurance runs and unnecessary failures which formerly Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, the Sub company knows more about the personal had chain reactions throughout the banking committee on Domestic Finance of the habits that lead to long life than I do. If system. House Comtllittee on· Banking and Cur they sent an agent around to tell me what Yes, I am afraid that we must reconcile rency is making a rather extensive sur time to go to bed and what to eat, they ourselves to the fact pf Government regu vey of the banking system, utilizing ques could no doubt save me some money on the lation of banking; but we cannot afford to tionnaires which have been developed insurance premiums. But none of us wants reconcile ourselves to bad regulation, or to over a period of months with the help of that kind of insurance. out-of-date and inappropriate banking laws. experts in the Federal bank supervisory I wish it were reallst1c to think that all This brings me to the topic I was asked. to Government intrusions into the banking discuss this afternoon, which is the purpose agencies and with the help of many pri business could be removed, but because of of the banking surveys being conducted by vate bankers. banking's vital role in the whole economy, the House Committee on Banking and With these surveys we hope to fill in as provider of the Nation's money supply, Currency. some rather fundamental gaps in our this is not the case. The Wall Street Journal, in a feature story knowledge about the banking system. So let me say at the outset that the bank on October 4, said this: Many legislative proposals are being ing survey which our committee is making "The commercial banking industry, tradi made to revise the banking laws in ways is an entirely friendly survey, though it is tionally one of the most conservative ele that would bring about important also one of serious import. We have been ments of the business community, is in a told that a few bankers have been appre state of ferment that seems sure to bring changes in the organization and struc hensive about our questionnaires. A few, some sig_nificant changes in long-honored ture of the banking industry, and these not many, but a few have expressed a fear policies and practices." proposals rest, I think, on assumptions, that the purpose of our survey is to evolve The idea of. bankers being in a state of suppositions, and theories as to what the a plan to push out the small independent "ferment" is perhaps a little too intoxicating. present facts are. banks and replace them with large national But there can be no doubt that change and Naturally, however, when we get down or regional chains. Nothing could be further pressures for change are very much at hand. to considering legislative proposals which from the truth. During the past 3 y~ars commercial banks I think I can speak for every member of have increased their time and savings de are so important in their implications for our committee when I say that we are far posits by 50 percent; by 100 percent in the the banking system-and for the success from persuaded that the American economy past 7 years. Naturally, the ·bankers ·are or f allure of many individual banks-we would benefit from the disappearance of the seeking investment outlets for these funds, feel the need to have facts rather than . small hometown b~nks. We recognize fully . and se~king double pleas that are generally believed to be associated strongly believe that we are overdoing big ure. with large-scale operation and concentrated ness, creating bigger and bigger corporations While flying out here, I was reminded of control of an industry. simply for the sake of bigness and not for the story .about the two ladles taking their The old theory of correspondent banking the sake of emctency. To have a Viable econ flrst jet flight. Upon boarding the plane, gave b.1gh moolllty to loanable funds, not omy, I think we should have Just as many they sought out the pilot and told blm, Just within a State, ao the Comptrol1er of locally -owned and locally managed busi "Please don't go faster than sound because the Currency would have it, but across State nesses as pm:sible, including banks. It will we wa.nt to talk to each other!' lines as well. be a sad day indeed if all of the Main Streets As the ladies found out, neither speed nor Country banlts put tnose funds they may of America become absentee owned and ab distance makes things "that different. And ftnd idle at a particular time on deposit sentee managed. so it 1s with the issues ~a.elng the savings with the city c~rrespondent banks, and the As more and more decisions affecting our and loan industry in 1963~ They a.re the city banks put their surplus funds on de everyday lives on Main Street are made in same here as in Washington, but l must say posit with the banks in the money market board rooms of Wall Street or Chicago, we that here we can consider .them in much centers. Conversely, the funds then fl.ow are in 1or more and more trouble-more big more pleasant surroundlngs-and perhaps we back to the regions and communities where government and big labor-and less local wm even see them in a different perspective. they are most in demand at the moment. self-reliance. How can we manage our local In ·any case, 1t is 11. wonderful ;experience The correspondent bank is supposed to problems locally, if we become a nation of to be here ~nd to be w1 th you at your 20th come to the rescue of the local bank hav clerks and hired hands? annual convention. ing a loan opportunity larger than it can With speclflc reference to banking, it seems When I first came to the Congress in 1928, meet from 1ts own l:esources. to me that the local banks should all be lo the ass&ts .of the savings and loan business Conversely.. tbe correspondent bank in cally owned and locally managed. .amounted to less than :$10 billion. Today I Chicago-to continue my example-ls sup Now, with your Indulgence, I would like understand your assets have passed the $100 posed to share "With local banks the large to close on a note which may seem unrelated billion mark. This .is certainly a remarka loan to the merchandise chain neadquarters to the subject I was invited to talk about. ble rate of development, and it necessarily re 1n Chicago. We are hearing an awful lot the-se days flects a remarkable achievement Jn build- Plnally, 1t 1s claimed that large corre about what is wrong with America. We 1.ng public confldence, which ts your most spondent banks, who can and do have the don't hear much about what is gOOd in priceless asset. specialized investment analysts, provide per America. This is most disturbing. Today the savings and lGan business la fectly sound and adequate investment advice serving more than a5 million a.vers and Certainly, no society at any time anywhere to the smaller banks. homeowners, tllrough some 61300 savqs and. This is a theory. And, of course, we all has ever enjoyed so much of the material loan associations. Credit for the success in know that to some extent--to some unknown things and comforts of life. And we have building public confldence .in the savings degree-actual practices accord With the reason to doubt that any society has ever .and loan Jndustry .rightfully b.elongs to you had more of tts people engaged 1n unselfish theory. But we do not have a really factual ~nd the other operators of savings and loan and patriotic pursuits, or more dedicated to picture of how correspondent banking is associations. operating. Is it accomplishing the things enhancing the intellectual and spiritual But the Federal Home Loan Bank Board I have suggested to "the degree that it ls a values of society. Surely it would be hard has also played an important role in the substitute "for branch banking? Or ls it su to find any other current-day society where development of the savings and loan system. perior to branch banking? so many people give their hearts and their As I have heard many o1 you say. the savings These are some of the questions that we labors to the betterment o! their communi and loan business would not have grown to ties, their nation, and even their world its present helghia without the Bank Board, hope to answer and we hope that the answer neighbors. wm be useful not only to the Congress and the Federal savings and loan system. and the the legislatures of· the States but to the bank Let us not forget that we still have the nationwide system of the Federal home loan greatest country in the world. And we are ing community as w~ll. It has always banks. seemed to me that the most important im all working-all of us-to make it still Over the -years we have ba.d some excep provements made in any industry a.re not greater. tlonally fine men .on the Federal .Home Loan those forced . by law but those voluntarily Bank Board, but I believe we have never had adopted by an industry when it has informa "LEGISLATION TO INCREASE IN as fine a board as we have today. tion on which to base a judgment that some No Government regulatory agency has ever new way o! doing things ts better thr:tn the VESTMENT FREEDOMS OF THE worked bar-der to carry out its mandate fr.om old way. FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN the Congress. Furthermore, Joe McMurray, Let me add that the mechanics that we ASSOCIATIONS during the past year and a half, haa worked have set up to handle the questionnaires d111gently to secure for the savtngs and loan will fully safeguar.d the confldentlality of Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask business the legislation needed to bet.ter serve your answer. I have never been persuaded unanimous consent to extend my remarks the savers and homeowners of the Nation. that information from individual banks or at this point in the RECORD and include John Horne, who has only recently become a independent bankers should be withheld a speech. m.ember of the Board, did a wonderful job as from the public when it seems clearly in The SPEAKER. Is there objection head of the Small Business Administration; the public interest to disclo8e information. to the request of the gentleman from and I know he w11l give to the ·sa'Vings and But in our present surveys there is no rea loan Industry the same loyalty and tireless son to disclose information on any individual Texas? effort he gave to small bus1ness. bank or person. Since the surveys have been There was no objection. John de Laittre, the third member o! the designed on only a sample of banks, it would Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, the House Federal Home Loan Bank Board, brlnga to be inappropriate to disclose individual in- Committee on Banklng and Currency his job a wealth of ·experience and knowledge 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 22811 as the former president of a large middle faults-a condition which makes life a little fortune of learning that economic advance western mutuaLsavings bank. He too .is an more diftlcUlt for a congressional committee. ment comes through savings. Also we know able and dedicated public servant. Proposals to change the laws governing fi that in the long run there is no real hope The Bank Board, however-as you know nancial institutions should be measured by for economic development in the less devel is a supervisory agency. It is responsible for two standards: One is better service to the oped nations, except as these people gen looking over your shoulder to make sure that public; and the other is a better balance be erate savings. I can think of no greater your operations are conducted in such a way tween savings and investment in our econ service that the United States could perform that thrift and home financing are balanced omy. for these people than to make available the with safety and soundness. Let's keep it As you know, our committee has just com wealth of talent we have in this country, that way, while at the same time allowing pleted extensive hearings on a bill which developed in the management of more than · private management of savings and loan as would increase the lending authority and 6,000 savings and loan associations, to show sociations the maximum freedom to exercise flexibility of the Federal savings and loan the people of Latin America how to organize their energy and ingenuity. associations. Without giving a final judg and encourage local savings. There is no question in my mind but that ment on the merits of all the proposals in Stimulating local savings will bring about you will continue to prosper and continue to this bill, I would say that at least four pro a middle class in countries where there is grow. But the growth you have already at posals seem to have great merit, on the basis no middle class; and it will create public tained carries with it new responsibilities. I and standards I have just mentioned. First support for stable currencies, against the do not urge you to adopt any new conser of all, we know, a basic problem of the runaway inflation which is the tendency in vatism, or to settle down into a rut of only savings and loans today, and of the other so many countries. Helping in this way will tried and true practices. Trial and error ex financial institutions too, is that they have also help stem the fiight of local capital periments with new ideas and new services a surplus of funds and a deficit of good in from these countries. are the essence of a growing business. vestment outlets. It would be good for the Ultimately, too, this is the only solution But I do suggest that some of the more whole economy if these idle funds were put to our own foreign aid burden. fiamboyant advertising I have seen re to work. A higher rate of investment would While it is not entirely clear from the cently-giveaway prizes, come-on dividend increase employment and step up the rate testimony given to our committee that Gov rates, and so on-is not well conceived to of economic growth. ernment sponsorship or Federal contribu inspire public confidence in a financial in One of the proposals which the committee tions to this proposed. program are necessary, stitution or in the savings and loan industry has under consideration would permit the or even most desirable, it has been made generally. Federal savings and loans to make loans on clear in everybody's mind, I think, thait the As you know, the administration has rec household furniture, appliances, and other general thrust of this proposal is most desir ommended-and is recommending-that consumer durables which are directly asso able and necessary. the Home Loan Bank Board be given ciated with the home. Increased sources of It is an inspiring idea-even an exciting "standby" controls over dividend rates paid financing for consumer durables of this type idea--to consider extending the savings and by the Federal savings and loan associations. should prove advantageous both to the loan movements to our neighbors in the This is a proposal Congress has been reluc American family and to the savings and loan underdeveloped. countries who are groping tant to accept; one of the reasons being associations. for just this kind of means of improving that experience has taught us that when an A second proposal is to permit the Federal themselves. You are to be oongratulated agency has "standby" controls there seems savings and loans to invest in the obliga for advancing such a far-sighted and warm to be an irresistible compulsion to put these tions of State and local governments. It hearted idea. controls into active operation. I would hate should be advantageous to the savings and It is such imagination and spirit as this to see support given to this proposal, by loans to help finance municipal improve that has always won you friends in Congress reason of the unsound practices of a few ments, such as roads, streets, and water and and among the general public. associations. sewage systems, etc., because such improve It is the kind of imagination and spirit You want to encourage savings, of course. ments are frequently necessary to develop that always makes us wish for your oon But there is a question whether a dividend suitable building sites for more homes. tinued success. Aloha. rate war actually encourages savings. Third, the bill would also permit college A few years ago the Ford Foundation made education loans. Since the savings and loans a survey to find out why people save. They specialize in the business of managing the WHY PHYSICIANS SUPPORT HOS sent questionnaires to a great many people, family's savings, ·it would seem appropriate PITAL INSURANCE FOR THE AGED asking them to list the reasons why they that they be permitted to help finance the save. The Foundation then tabulated all children's college education. Because edu THROUGH SOCIAL SECURITY of the reasons given and issued a report. cation pays off very handsomely in increased Mr. KEOGH. Mr. Speaker, I ask A great many people said that they saved earnings over the working life of the individ unanimous consent to extend my remarks for a rainy day, or for their old age. Others ual, anything that we can do to increase said they saved to put their children additional opportunities will benefit the Na at this Point in the RECORD and include through school. Others said that they saved tion as well as the individuals involved. extraneous matter. in order to make a large purchase, such as a Another provision of the bill would permit The SPEAKER. Is there objection house and so on, for all the reasons familiar investment in mobile homes. I must con to the request of the gentleman from to you. fess my surprise at learning how tremendous New York? But apparently no one thought to say he ly the use of mobile homes is growing, and There was no objection. saves because of the dividend rate or interest how many families are now living in such rate he can get on his money. homes. Mr. KEOGH. Mr. Speaker, the CON This suggests to me that the kind of During the committee's hearings, the dis GRESSIONAL RECORD recently contained an people who put their money in savings and tinguished. chairman of your legislative com attack UPon the Physicians Committee loan associations are concerned first and fore mittee, Mr. Arthur Courshon, of Miami, Fla., on Health Care for the Aged Through most with the safety of their savings, not with made a brilliant and most persuasive state Social Security and a lea:tlet, entitled the dividend rate. Such people are going to ment in favor of these provisions of the bill; "Why Physicians SUPPort Hospital In wonder, as I wonder, whether a savings and as well as the other provisions which are a surance for the Aged Through Social loan that pays a 5-percent rate at the present little more oomplicated. I should think that time is investing that money in sound Security," which was mailed to Members if the savings and loan associations are of Congress. enterprises. deeply interested in this legislation it can p~ Let me turn now to the legislation before enacted. This attack is surprising. The physi ·the Congress. The banks -and savings and While mentioning the most impressive cians whose names are attached to the loan associations each want new or broad abilities of Arthur Courshon, I would like leaflet include some of the most distin ened lending authorities to permit them to to add a word about your very wonderful guished and· best known doctors in our take advantage of the investment opportuni representatives in Washington, Ken Heisler, Nation. ties available in our growing, changing econ Bill Kerwin, and your new counsel, Bill omy. And quite naturally this reflects itself McKenna. These fellows are most able, most Among them a~e two Nobel Prize win in a number of proposals for change in exist pleasant, and always obliging on illquiries ners, Dr. Arthur Kornberg and Dr. Dick ing laws. I might add that these proposals from Members of Congress. inson W. Richards; a recipient of the have generated some spirited rivalry and dif Let me come now to another most in American Medical Association's Distin ference of opinion among various segments teresting legislative proposal which has been guished Service Award, Dr. Michael E. of the financial community. put forward by your membership. This is Debakey; a recipient of the American There is a story about a little boy who the proposal to create an internaitional home Hospital Association's Distinguished had kicked his brother in the stomach. loan bank, or some similar instrumentality, Service Award, Dr. E. Michael Bluestone; "Tommy, why did you kick your brother in which would allow you to help bring about the stomach?" his mother asked. "Well, it savings and loan associations in the under two former presidents of the American was his fault," Tommy replied. "He turned developed countries, especially in Latin College of Physicians, Dr. David P. Barr around." - · Amerioa. This would seem to me a most and Dr. J. Howard Means; and a holder Like Tommy, some segments of the finan public-spirited idea. As one of the advan~ed. of the Theobald Smith Award in Medi ~ial community are quick to see the Qthers• capitalistic countries, we have had the good. cal Sciences of the American Association 22812 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD :-MOUSE November 26 for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Irv Times of May 21, 1962, entitled "An possible Federal grants. Over half of ing M. London-to mention just a few Opinion Favoring Legislation for Health the .recipients meet all the State tests of of the distinctions accorded some of Care for the Aged information of cases of this kind so that the assistance to aged who are not on OAA rolls. needed medical care can be provided and Furthermore, since a majority of the aged able them to continue to do so. No hos Members of Congress, including myself, have Hve in States which have implemented Kerr pital official has asserted that if the in turn asked our constituencies for· such Mills, a figure -0f 7 of 1,000 may well be a King-Anderson bill is passed, they will information. Hundreds of county societies· measure of the need for such an assistance not participate. This attack does great have advertised in newspapers soliciting such program for the aged rather than an indica injustice to the sense of responsibility of information and pledging help t.o anyone who tion ot failure as this pamphlet suggests. CIX--1436 22814 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE November 26 States with Kerr-Mills programs may be istrative functions. They could enter the The SPEAKER. Is there objection interested in the charge that they are ad picture only if invited by providers of serv to the request· of the gentleman from ministering them in some instances in a ices and then only by agreement with the New York? manner actually endangering the health and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare There was no objection. . safety of the aged. This charge, like other on his terms. State agencies could become charges in the pamphlet, is not documented. involved in all the functions mentioned only Mr. MULTER. Mr. .Speaker, the so far as Kentucky is concerned, elemen on the Secretary's request. events of the last few days have sad tary principles of fair play should dictate Free choice could not be guaranteed to all dened and shocked all of us; it is almost . that this State's experience with Kerr-Mills the· aged eligible for benefits, despite the incomprehensible that President Ken administrative costs should be examined on language of the legislation. Services would ned~r is dead. The one among us here the basis of current facts. Administrative be available only in those institutions par in Washington that has suffered a loss costs in Kentucky now are reported to be ticipating in the program under agreement greater than ours, however, is the gra running under 5 percent. with HEW. Free choice, as used in this pam phlet and in the legislation, could be guar cious lady who was the wife of John Fitz The statement is simply not true that gerald Kennedy. Yesterday's New York Kerr-Mills assistance is availaible "only after anteed to the recipient only if every hos resources are used up and incomes are per.:. pital and every nursing home and every home Herald Tribune expressed the admira manently reduced." All the State laws are nursing agency was forced to participate. · tion that all of us have for her in a brief designed to conserve the recipient's mini One final observation should be made. The editorial which follows: physicians committee for health care for mum resources and no State requires per PROFILE IN COURAGE manent reduction of income. Resource and the aged through social security has by submitting this pamphlet to Members of This Nation will not soon forget the re income limits are measures of eligibility, in markable conduct of Mrs. John F. Kennedy. tended to assure that tax funds will not be Congress become directly engaged as an or ganization in lobbying. Has it complied Her calm, her bearing, her endurance dissipated on those able to finance their own throughout the painful pageant of removing health'- care. The aged who are eligible suf with the law and registered as a lobbyi!!lt? I find no record of this. her husband's body from the White House fer no loss of income from the operaition of to the Capitol spoke eloquently of her inner the Kerr-Mills program. On the contrary, I shall have more to say about this physi cians committee when I complete my in strength. their incomes are preserved, not reduced. A vestigation of its memberships' extensive The decision to bring little Caroline and number of States, as they have gained ex participation in Federal research gra~t pro John along certainly added to the ordeal, perience with Kerr-Mills programs, have in bgt despite the anguish of personal involve.; creased the resource and income limits and grams and in other programs utilizing Fed eral funds. ment for the children it was a wise and won thus brought benefits to greater numbers of derful thing to let them participate in this the aged. day of mournful history. The charge that relatives with "modest TRIBUTE T,O THE TELEVISION Once again Mrs. Kennedy showed the poise incomes" may be taken to court is patently INDUSTRY and grace that marked her days as First a scare technique. Fewer than half the Lady. She has written her own "Profile in States with Kerr-Mills programs function Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani Courage" in a way to make her country ing in January this year had relative re mous consent to extend my remarks at infinitely proud. sponsibility laws . .None of these laws is de this point in the RECORD. signed to force those with "modest incom.es" The SPEAKER. Is there objection to contribute to support of relatives. Their THE BI'ITER FRUIT OF HATE own incomes and financial obligations are · to the request of the gentleman from taken into consideration in determining ~heir California? Mr. RHODES of ·Pennsylvania. Mr. abllity to assist. It is interesting that the There was no objection. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex pamphlets say relatives "may" be taken · Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I wish, as my tend my remarks at -this point in the into court, not that they a.re. Consequently, first act following this sad weekend, to RECORD and include extraneous matter. it must be concluded that the sentence is in pay tribute to the broadcasting industry The SPEAKER. Is there objection tended to frighten the uninformed'. of America for their comprehensive and to the request of the gentleman from The pamphlet describes the hospitaliza sensitive coverage of this most tragic tion program proposed in H.R. 3920 and S. Pennsylvania? 880 as insurance, with benefits to be paid event of our century. Criticism of this There was no objection. as "a matter of earned right." Everyone industry is all too frequent and commen Mr. RHODES of Pennsylvania. Mr. familiar with the Social Security law knows dations are rare but commendations are Speaker, the fiendish and brutal assas that current taxes pay current benefits and certainly in order for bringing the story sination of PreSident John F. Kennedy that an individual's payroll taxes are not set of the tragic death and burial of our is the ugly and bitter fruit of passion, aside for his future benefits. The Internal beloved President to the people of Amer frustration, bigotry, and hate which has Revenue Service considers social security ica and to the world. Their presenta benefits as gifts from one group of taxpayers grown in our country in recent years at to another and are therefore not taxable. tion of this story proved to the world that a dangerous and alarming rate. It is The "earned right" contention implies a con they have matured. Almost without difficult to understand how even a mad tract between recipient and the Government. exception, every aspect of their coverage man could commit such a hideous crime There are, of course, obvious flaws in such was in the best of taste. that took the life of a great and good reasoning. More than 17 million aged who I particularly wish to pay a special man, the President of our country who would be entitled to benefits of this legisla tribute to the men and women of the had the love and affection of countless tion immediately, for example, could not three great networks for their sympa claim an earned right, since they would have millions of people a.Ji home and through paid nothing under the program. Furthel- thetic handling of this event without be out the world. more, these 17 million would comprise the coming overemotional but, at the same Perhaps the best answer was given by majority of eligibles for many years to come. time, always presenting the tragic aspect historian Harry Steele Commager. In More important to this argument, however, of the occasion. discussing this tragic event over nation is the implication that Congress would be We all recall charges against this in wide television, Professor Commager foreclosed from amending the law, once en dustry and statements with reference to acted, to reduce benefits. This, of course, is said that a pervasive climate of fear, the "vast wastelands," many of which I violence, and suspicion has been created nonsense. Moreover, the solvency of the have agreed with in the past, but I am social security system rests, not on actuarial in this country since the end of World insurance principles, but on the power of proud to say as one individual, and as a War II. Congr_ess to levy taxes and the further pow Member of Congress, that the events of As a result of the frustrations of an er of Congress to reduce benefits as an alter the past 4 days have proven that this endless cold war, more and more Amer native to increasing taxes if the prograQl great industry has finally grown to runs into serious financial trouble. adulthood and has contributed an out icans have been ready to preach hatred. The writer of the pamphlet has in other standing. service to America and to the But, the professor pointed out: respects b~n careless with facts, stating that world. I believe it can truly be said that It is impossible to preach hate and dis the proposed legislation would "permit vol this was television's finest, though sad trust ceaselessly and then to say, when vio untary organizations, such as Blue Cross, to lence occurs, we didn't really mean it. The perform certain administrative !unctions," dest, hour. atmosphere had been created in which some would "utmze State agencies in planning, in ------one on the fringe could act. determination of eligibility of providers of PROFILE IN COURAGE services and in consultation to the provid I have seen evidence of growing bit ers" and would guarantee free choice of phy Mr. MULTER. Mr. Speaker, I as_k terness and hate in mail I have received. sician and hospital. unanimous consent to extend my remarks I have seen it in vicious pamphlets and Private organizations could not on their at this point in the RECORD and includ~ books, and on ·pages of the CoNGREs own initiative step in and perform admin- extraneous matter. sroNAL RECORD. It was evident on the 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 22815 pages of a big Dallas newspaper on the man. John Kennedy was born predestined assumes the mantle of· the. ·presidency, we day the President died. to be a President. are confident that Mr. Johnson will continue America at this tragic hour of crisis may his work. The tragic events of the horrible week be likened to a military regiment, locked in We join this region, the Nation and the end of November 22 should awaken the mortal combat, that sees its commanding world in expressing deepest.hw:na.n sympathy American people to the dangers of prop general cut down. Our mourning must be to his wife, who was by his side when he was aganda which is being broadcast by the brief; we must close ranks and press on, that struck down, to his little children, his par hate network in hundreds of cities to our cause-his-cause-is not lost for the loss ents and his brother.s and sisters. create confusion, distrust, fear, and of one man. To his wife and family, we offer the words hatred of public otncials and representa Now we will pray, as all civilized humanity of Abraham Lincoln who wrote to a moth will pray to their several Gods, that solace er of five sons who died on the field of battle: tive government. and comfort be visited upon John Kennedy's "I pray that our Heavenly Father may as Much of the money that feeds the family; that our new President, Lyndon B. suage the anguish of your bereavement, and hate network comes from Dallas, the Johnson, shall be given the strength and leave you only the cherished mei:nory of the scene of recent violence and other events wisdom to assume-the staggering responsi loved and lost, and the solemn pride that of which the city cannot be proud. b111ties that are thrust upon him; and that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacri The President's death leaves an emp we shall be unfaltering in out continuing fice upon the altar of freedom." tiness in the hearts of all Americans struggle against "the common enemies of But as we mourn a lost leader, we must that cannot be filled. Knowing him as man-tyranny, poyerty, disease, and war it go on. It J.s imperative and necessary that self." we close ranks behind our new President, I did, I felt that no other President in Ask not, John Kennedy, what you can do Lyndon B. Johnson. The burden of respon all -of our history possessed so many for your country. No man can do more. sibility that he now assumes is great and good and high qualities for leadership. with God's help and the united and dedi He was extremely brilliant and well [From Sunbury Dally Item) cated support of the American people, he will lnformed on every important issue. He A courageous crusader for the causes in succeed ln leading this country in his new was dedicated, sincere, kind, and coura which he believed died a martyr's death assignment which is- undoubtedly the most geous. His greatness will grow with when an as£a.Ssin's bullet cut down John F. difficult of any on earth. passing time as the goals he envisioned Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. Mr. Johnson is a good man, experienced A glowing light that penetrated areas of in the ways of Congress, informed of his are reached and with the advance of darkness on the American scene and country's policies a.nd knowledgeable in for those high ideals he held for justice and throughout a troubled world was suddenly eign affairs. opportunity ior all. It was my privilege extinguished, leaving only the hope that the He will undoubtedly make a good Presi to know him as a giant among men and problems so clearly reflected will be attacked dent. as a friend. with new determination. Ending racial bias Our task, as a Nation, is to demonstrate I will always cherish the memories of and the prudent easing of East-West ten to the world that we are a united people, sions are chief among these. And they pose dedicated to our ideals. This is our job-let my associations with him, and of being us do it as well as our late President did his. a part of his team and his administra no small task for his successor. Also they challenge the best _efforts of a Congrees that tion in seeking the enactment of legis has been shamefully addicted to evasion of lation the people and the Nation need responsibility and deferment of decisions. A KENNEDY MEMORIAL to meet the challenge of these changing It is one of the incongruities of American and dangerous times. democracy that the man chosen by vote of Mr. WICKERSHAM. Mr. Speaker, I With consent of the House, Mr. Speak"' the majority to heed the Government and ask unanimous consent to extend my re er, I include with my remarks the follow thereby assume responsibilities unequaled by marks at this point in the RECORD and ing excellent editorials in honor of our any other living per.son is subjected to the include extraneous matter. martyred President: slings and arrows of disappointment from The SPEAKER. Is there objection those whom he has summoned to share his to the request of the gentleman from (From the Milton (Pa.) standard] burdens, and also to the criticism of nomtnal The haters of the world have won a battle supporters as well as partisan opponents. Oklahoma? but .not a war. . And this is .not to say that differences based There was no objection. In his derangement, the assassin who on honest .convictions are indicative of dis Mr. WICKERSHAM. Mr. Speaker, I felled the President of the United states may respect or pointless partisanship. insert the following touching editorial inadvertently have made as great a contribu The tragic death of John F. Kennedy has from the Washington Evening tion to world peace as a.ny man in the past bowed the Nation in grief. Millions in for Star of November 26, 1963, on the un 19 centuries: he has filled all mankind with eign lands who regarded him as a friend are timely and tragic death of our late Presi revulsion to the end result of hatred. stunned and apprehensively await the im dent, John F. Kennedy: · He has stilled the lips of the most con pact of his loss. temptible of redneck "nigger haters"; he has Tlie greatest tribute that could be paid his A KENNEDY MEMORIAL struck anguish to the heart of the most memory would be to close ranks in these His own best memorial wm live in his own bigoted political partisan; he has united in United States for the advancement of his memorable words, for he spoke in trumpets, hundredfold strength all men of good will, ideals of equality, justice, and peace based on summoning us to seek our finest nature and wherever they may tread the earth; he has strength. to fit it to the difll.culties and dangers of martyred a brilliant a.nd courageous man our time. who had shown us moments of memorable [From the Shenandoah (Pa.) Evening Our own best act of remembrance must greatness and stood at the threshhold of his Standard) continue to be the faith we keep with his toric greatness. THE Pm!:smENT Is DEAD imperatives. John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die fu Cut down from ambush in the prime of But the heart desires and the slain leader tilely. He brought America further forward his life, at the height of a brilliant career by deserves a more tangible, more specific me than any man of his century in the reamr a cowardly, treacherous assassin in a mean morial, a physical place in the Nation's Capi mation of the principle that all men are ingless, savage attack, the President gave the tal corresponding to his place in prayer in created equal. His resolute posture in the last full measure of devotion to the country the Nation's heart. grave confrontations of freedom's foes he so dearly loved. : There can be no more fitting memorial brought him administration and acclaim The loss of John F. Kennedy to the Nation thlm the dedication now, to him, of the from even his severest critics. His grasp of is not only historic, but personal as well. National Cultural -Center. the Nation's complex economic structure led Few Presidents commanded such personal The President and Mrs. Kennedy brought him to present with forthright conviction affection of the people as did this warm, en to the center of things the service performed the fiscal policies in which he believed. thusiastic human being. by the arts for men and women. In thought In au these areas he blazed a trail to mark · He combined tnteIItgence and activity. He and speech John F. Kennedy moved with the way for the Nation's leaders who succeed was a man of vitality as a person and as a familiar friendship among the poets and the him. Where he made mistakes, he made President. He was a man of courage with a prophets. It was the same in his and Mrs. great mistakes--simply because he was in a capacity for greatness. Kennedy's home. The White House became job in which there are no small mistakes. The President's death yesterday leaves un a place of welcome for musicians and paint America has seen men of indomitable cour fulfilled his hopes for the solution of many ers, dancers and writers. age. It has seen men of dynamic vigor, men problems, both foreign and domestic. His The idea of a cultural center preceded the of high moral principle; others with the vitality and energy pushed his programs in Kennedy administration. But President magic touch of warm human kindliness, stm many directions, including reduction of Kennedy gave the idea force and form, and others with razor-keen insight and profound taxes, civil rights, prosperity at home and a singularly personal leadership, without wisdom. peace throughout the world. which it could hardly have achieved its But seldom has this Nation--or any na But no madman's bullet can stop the p.re~nt development. tion-seen so many of these qualities com march of events initiated by our late Presi Mrs. Kennedy, from whom we have learned bined. within - the frame and· spirit of one dent. And as the Vice President sorrowfully to bear loss with dignity, was even more 22816 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE November 26 deeply involved. To· salute her loss as well The people of the United States ·will industry discharged its responsibilities as ours, a .Kennedy Memorial Cultural Center insist upon a permanent memorial in over the most grim weekend in the an would speak intimately of part of her gift honor of their 35th President and I be nals of our Nation. to us. · Other memorial proposals have been made, lieve that it shouid be located in or near It would be impossible to try to single chiefly of renaming athletic stadia already in the Nation's Capital where he labored out any one individual, but it would be existence. The cultural center as a me most effectively in their behalf. equally unfair not to emphasize that morial to Mr. Kennedy is not only uniquely I have no preconceived or definite every single person who worked on the expressive of a purpose shared by the Presi thoughts as to the type of memorial that reporting of this week's tragic events dent and his wife. Since it is now in early should be created. President Kennedy brought a new concept of dignity and process, since funds are still being raised, it was a man of varied interests and tal ability to the entire profession. also would give all Americans the chance to ents. It will take time and study by ex remember the President by bringing to com The anchormen on the networks, Mr. pletion an intent and wish of his. perts in many fields to arrive at a deci Speaker, maintained that degree of com The change of name and the dedication sion as to a memorial that would best posure and decorum which, in effect, set should be made at once. The building preserve for future generations the the standard for our entire Nation in should be brought to reality as soon as pos image of President Kennedy. Perhaps a grieving the monumental loss of Presi sible. cultural center might be appropriate. In dent Kennedy. John F. Kennedy will live in the hearts of any event, we should lose no time in au There is no question in my mind that men. Let him live also in the arts he loved. thorizing a start on ·this study. television helped immensely to create an atmosphere of dignity throughout Amer A MEMORIAL FOR PRESIDENT A TRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S NEWS ica in this period of enormous tragedy. Mr. Speaker, I think only today can KENNEDY MEDIA ON REPORTING THE MOST we reflect upan what an appalling and Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask TRAGIC WEEK IN OUR IDSTORY explosive atmosphere existed throughout unanimous consent to extend my remarks Mr. PUCINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I ask the country over these past few days. at this Point in the RECORD and include unanimous consent to extend my remarks President Kennedy, it is now perfectly extraneous matter. at this point in the RECORD and include obvious, was a fantastically popular and The SPEAKER. Is there objection extraneous matter. beloved President. to the request of the gentleman from The SPEAKER. Is there objection The first flash of the assault upon his Connecticut? to the request of the gentleman from life and the subsequent tragic announce There was no objection. Illinois? ment of his death touched off a wave of Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I There was no objection. emotion across the land which could share in the national and worldwide Mr. PUCINSKI. Mr. Speaker, in def- have led to all sorts of bizarre conse grief at the death of President Kennedy, erence to the request by the majority quences. but I also feel a very personal sense of leader [Mr: ALBERT], ·I shall withhold I submit, Mr. Speaker, that it was to a loss at his passing. Having served in the my ·eulogy to President Kennedy at this great extent the medium of television, two Congresses during his Presidency, time until. the day omcially proclaimed through its dignified, albeit compas having campaigned with him, having here in the House for paying tribute to sionate, reporting of the fast-breaking seen his popularity, his vigor, and his our beloved President. events that managed to help America selfless interest in the welfare of the peo- Perhaps it is just as well that the ma retain its composure and its sense of ple, I have felt a close identification with jority leader has suggested postponing balance. - him. It has been a sad e~perience for the omcial tribute to President Kennedy There was no fanning of the fire; no me to have shared in the mournful cere- until a later day. Surely our hearts to coaching of those already on the prec monies here in Washington. day are still too overcome with grief to ipice in their rage against this abhor In a larger sense, however, President be able to put in its full perspective the rent act; no hysterical inciting of a Kennedy's tragic death is a loss to our glory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. population already deeply embittered by whole country. With constant cheer- · Nor can one fully assemble today a de the wanton and senseless assassination fulness, unfailing courage and faith in scription which would do justice to the of its beloved President. America, he pressed for measures which magnificent demeanor of Mrs. Jacqueline Here, Mr. Speaker, every single indi would benefit the average citizen of this Kennedy during this grief-stricken week- vidual in this country who had anything country and bring peace to the world. end of heartbreak and sorrow. to do with the reporting of this tragic We shall retain our pride in his Only the poets and the laureates will be week should hold his head high with achievements and our conviction that he able to fully describe the majesty with pride that he or she discharged his or has laid firm foundations upon which which she inspired the whole world her duties in a manner of responsibility future generations may build. throughout her tragic ordeal. and dignity which has brought the entire In his great inaugural address, which A proper tribute to the former First communications industry a new image we heard with pride less than 3 years Lady must await a time in which men of profound respect. ago, President Kennedy said that all can compose more adequately their sor History wiU show that America's tele work on national problems would not be row. vision and radio wrote its greatest hours finished in the first 100 days of his ad- I should like, however, today, Mr. of glory last weekend. ministration-nor in the life of that ad- Speaker, to pay tribute to America's Before we again attack television and ministration-but- he urged the Nation press, radio, and television. Never in the radio as a "wasteland," let us ponder to begin that work upon the complex entire scope of history have so many mil its impressive contribution to help de problems which he described. lions of people been able to witness per- mocracy endure its most tragic experi It will be to his eternal credit that in sonally one of the great tragedies of re ence during the past weekend. the brief space of time allotted to him corded civilization. The newspapers of this country can he made a noble beginning. Television and radio, in particular, are be equally proud. Even though the In the words of Whittier: . deserving of outstanding commendation. printed press has had more experience And now he rests; his greatness and his Even though it has cost these two media and perhaps has more time to avoid rep sweetness many millions of dollars in lost revenue ortorial mishaps, I think that America's No more shall seem at strife through the cancellation of advertising free press has given full meaning to that And death has molded into calm com- commitments, both radio and television part of the Constitution which guaran pleteness gave the American people such a graphic tees liberty and freedom of action to all The statue of his life. description and portrayal of those in- journalists. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I introduced a credible 75 hours, that we Americans to As we scan through the newspapers resolution calling for the creation of a day can take pride in possessing a new and magazines of our country, we find John F. Kennedy Memorial Commission, dimension in understanding history. example after example of the kind of whose functions would be the planning Those who have been quick to criticize inspirational writing which makes us all and construction of a suitable memorial and denounce this country's radio and proud to be Americans. in honor of the martyred President of television industry would do well to study The still photographers of America's the United States. the magnificent manner in which this newspapers are deserving of particular 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- HOUSE 22817 commendation. Who will again ever be did not die in Dallas la'St Frida:y. nor ~he tra ·DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THE dition that was personified by her husband, able to equal the.photograph of the late COMMUNICATION~ MEDIA President's 3-year-old son, John-John, struck down in brutal irrelevance. She agreed tO his bl.µ'ial in Arlington Na ~ Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I ask offering his own salute to his fallen tional Cemetery rather than in B6ston; so father on the steps of St. Matthew's unanimous consent to exten,d my remarks that he would. belong· to the Nation and at ~his Point in the RECORD and include Cathedral? would not in the end have the stamp of a Mr. Speaker, this is but one single local tragedy. extraneous matter. example of a whole ocean of emotion She has overwhelmed White House aids The SPEAKER. Is there objection dramatically captured by the press pho- with her meticulous attention to the mel to the request of the .gentleman from tographers and rePorters. . ancholy arrangements that have had to ·be Pennsylvania? made. She designed herself the memorial There was no objection. Each of those men and women has cards for his requiem mass. She suggested given democracy a new dimension Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, the that she should receive the foreign digni people of the United States-nay, the through their inspiring conduct, both taries who had come from so far away to in the press, on radio, and on television. pay him last honor. people of the world-owe a great debt of They have insured that our Nation, into From the moment she arrived back· in gratitude to the communications media. infinity, will always present the most Washington, erect and composed, wearing for their complete and sensitive handling compelling argument for a free press. the blood-stained clothes of the infamous of the events following the assassination Mr. Speaker, it would be impossible day in Dallas, she has imparted meaning of President Kennedy. · to even begin to single out individuals and order to the chaos around her. It required the greatest sensitivity to for honors, but I should like today to She has not wanted anything to be lost give such complete coverage of a family on the world. - in grief. mention one whom I believe we can all She brought her two children to the Cap agree stands as the first lady of American It required the deepest understanding ital yesterday. of our form of government to display not journalism. If she wanted them to see, however im It is no surprise that the First Lady perfectly, what their father meant, she also only for Americans but for all the people of America, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, dramatized to :the world and the evil people of the world, the wondrous majesty and the widow of our- beloved President, in it that a young father .had been slain as stability with which the transfer of would invite Miss Mary McGrory to the well as a President. power takes place under our 175-year White House Monday for a personal It was, with the irony that has marked old Constitution. thank you. this entire episode, approximately the mo On both counts the communications ment when her husband's suspected k111er media scored superbly well. Miss McGrory's stirring portrayal of was being murdered in a Dallas police station. Mrs. Kennedy during her great ordeal She took 6-year-old Caroline by the hand shall go down as one of the great classics and led her to the :flag-covered bier, knelt of American journalism. I have never and kissed it and returned to her place. OUR NATION HAS LOST A GREAT met Miss McGrory, but I am sure that She came again to the rotunda with her LEADER her colleagues of the press will readily brother-in-law, the Attorney General, at 9 Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, I ask join me in acknowledging her as one of o'clock in the evening. ·she looked intently unanimous consent to extend my remarks the great writers of our time. into every face she saw in that throng. · She walked down Capitol H111 and stopped to at this Point in the RECORD and include The depth of warm understanding talk to a group ef nuns. ' ' extraneous matter. which Miss McGrory demonstrated The crowd was, as a matter of fact, rewai-d.:. The SPEAKER. Is there objection makes us all proud of American jour ing her heroism with a heroism of its own. to the request of the gentleman from nalism. I should like, Mr. Speaker, at They waited ho:ur after hour in the cold Minnesota? this point to include Miss McGrory's evening. They. complained only when inJ;er There was no objection. classic portrayal of Mrs. Kennedy's or lopers crossed the ·many intersections be Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, we have deal. This is the kind of writing Pulitzer tween them and the rotunda. lost a great leader. John F. Kenriedy awards are made of. -The line stretched for many blocks and loved his country; and his countrymen remained long after the rudest calculation To the men and women of America's proved there was no hope of entry. They loved him. .He was a man of compas journalism profession, both to those who waited with good humor and camaraderie. sion and of determination. · He brought work with the written word and those Seven blocks from the Capitol dome stood a to us his conviction that our Nation could who work with the new magic of elec young man with a guitar. One of the seven fulfill its destiny as the leader of free tronic journalism, I extend my heartiest children of a man in his neighborhood car- men. commendation for a job exceptionally ried the guitar c~se. · He was of a new generation, which well done. Once, reminded that the President's fa has seen the tragedy of two world wars All Americans have been able to under vorite song had been "B111 Bailey, Won't You and the futility of efforts to prevent stand more fully · last weekend's tragic Please Come Home," they sang it through. those wars. His understanding· of his Then they did "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." tory led him to search boldly for new events because of the tremendously ca A young mother coping with 5-year-old pable men and women who report the twin boys, said she would wait all night to paths to peace with honor. He knew news. Mr. Speaker, Miss McGrory's go in. that the people of this Nation want article, which is an outstanding example A bespectacled Negro said simply, "It's the peace, and he worked with imagination of the high caliber of Ame:vican jour last, least thing I could do for him." and determination to secure it. nalism, follows: A woman who had just had a foot opera He understood the dynamics of our THE GRANDEUR OF DEATH: A YOUNG WIDOW tion, stood clutching a tree on the sidewalk. Nation's economy and he.acted to keep it BRINGS MEANING TO TRAGIC CHAOS "I hope I can make it," she gasped, "I serving the welfare of the people. The wouldn't do this for anyone but President (By Mary McGrory) jobless, the sick, the elderly-all those Kennedy." - for whom our Nation has not yet ful Only one person has managed to pierce There were students :from Syracuse, a filled its promise-these are the people the black pall of horror and unreality that couple :from New York, a boy from ·Toronto, whom he sought to aid. has gripped the Nation since last Friday. and everywhere the crowd was punctuated It is Jacqueline Kennedy, the President's with the black and white habits of sisters, He spoke · with conviction about the widow. out long after their bedtime, poignantly re need to banish hate and bigotry and Mrs. Kennedy has borne herself with the calling a recent Kennedy quip that while acted to translate the ·American ideal of valor of a queen in a Greek tragedy. bishops and m9nsignors were always Repub equality intO a living reality. Shock alone might have explained her licans, sisters were inevitably Democratic. Above all else, he brought a new spirit dry-eyed composure. But Mrs. Kenndy has Inside, four young sailors performed a last to our Nation. He enlarged our hori moved :with more than the mechanical com act that was perfectly in the Kennedy style. zons. and taught us that we can, when pliance that sometimes overtakes people in One by one, they halted before the exact we will, find within this Nation a greater appalling circumstances. center of the casket, squared their white caps fulfillment of our own lives. - Everything she has done seems to be a and executed their best salutes for their conscious etiort to give to his death the fallen Commander in Chief. Let us then rededicate ourselves to the grandeur that the savagery in Dallas was It is just what this young woman, hitherto goals for which he worked-peace with calculated to rob it of. :.. · celebrated for her beauty and elegance, has honor, the elimination of hate and big .. It has be.en as though she were trying to been doing in her own way in these black otry, and an abundant life for all. His show the world that courtesy and courage days. sacrifice shall not have been In vain. 22818 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE November 26 EULOGY TO THE LATE JOHN F. ·SPeech to the membership of the House research in scientific areas, including an the proposed sole source purchase of a tennas. Further, our review disclosed that KENNEDY Chu Associates. Inc.,. had. received some pur _control antenna for a drone airpl~e. ch&.se' orders or subcontracts from Govern Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker; I My criticisms were baseq on the fact that ask unanimous consent to extend my re ment prime contractors during the 1950's for the Na.VY had or should have manufac antennas. marks at this point in the RECORD and turing drawings for the AT 948/U an include extraneous matter. tenna and that competitive procurement Still quoting the Comptroller General, · The SPEAKER. Is there obJectio~ would cut the cost of this equipment by _"In view of these facts~ it is possible that to the request of the gentleman from at least 50 percent. Dr. Lan Jen Chu or Chu Associates, Inc., Hawaii? Today, my study of that case is con developed the antenna product-or an There was no objection. . cluded. and, as was the case of the AS tenna family" covered by its patent "as Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, the 1018/URC (XMI) which I reported here a result of its business with the Govern President is dead-the victim of ari yesterday, my ·position has been borne ment and its prime contractors,. and assassin's bullet. ·This was the unbe out by the Comptroller General. .therefore, the Government should have lievable news from Dallas which shocked More important, Mr. Speaker, is that obtained a royalty-free license to use the and stunned the Nation 8lld the world the Navy now has a chance to save not patented item, including a right to 4 days ago. As we attempt to resume 50 but 69 percent of the tax money to be manufacturing drawings, in the produc our daily responsibilities, the question spent on this antenna as a result of co~ tion of the equipments by any company which weighs most heavily upon our petitive bidding forced by me. This selected by the Government." minds is, "Why? Why? Why? What compareswith the up to $192,000 already Mr. Campbell said the GAO plans "to manner of being was this who could be so wasted on this same equipment. cover this aspect of the development of filled with hatred so as to ·take the life After I related to the Members the the antennas" in a. "broader review of of a man whose whole heart and mind facts surrounding the AT 948/U antenna electronics procurement currently in were dedicated to world peace and good in my February 27 speech, I asked the process." will toward all mankind? Was this a Comptroller General to investigate the There, Mr. Speaker, is point No. 1 produc.t of our vaunted society? Where entire matter. I also demanded that the of my case. Navy proclaims for all to had we failed? And why? Why? In proposed sole source procurement be hear time and again that it has no right deed, the greatest tragedy in our Nation's stopped until all the facts were known. ~to what it calls Chu's patented item de modem history has given us cause for Mr. Speaker, the Comptroller General veloped at Chu's expense. But the GAO some real soul searching. has completed his review and has for has dug under the redtape and found President Kennedy will go down in warded his findings to me. that Chu was paid for development of the history as one of our greatest Presidents It was my contention on February 27, antenna-by the- Navy-and criticizes of all times. Just as Abraham Lincoln, 1963, that the Navy had, or should have, the Navy for its failure to obtain what it almost a century ago, laid down his life manufacturing drawings. Mr. Camp paid for. to make men free, so did John Fitzgerald bell's review did ,not establish that the Now, as to point No. · Z, the waste Kennedy give up his life to free his Navy had any such data. However. in in past procurements, and the savings in fellow men from the chains and shackles his report to me, he says the Navy paid a· competitive procurement. · of prejudice. - for this material and should have been After my speech of February 27. 1963, We have lost a great President; in using it. the sole source procurement of 47 of the deed, the entire world has lost one of the . It might have had it except for the fact AT 948/U antennas was suspended. Here greatest leaders it has ever known. He that everyone in charge :relied on the is what the GAO report says: gave voice to the conscience of America other guy to get a job done. As a result, The award of the contract for. this pro and to the dream of mankind; he g~ve nothing was done. One middle-grade posed procurement had not been made when action to the conscience of America ~d employee certified as true what another you addressed the House on February 27, to the dream of mankind. His unwaver thought or hoped to be true. The result 1963. As the result of your statement, the ing courage and enlightened leadership was that until GAO came into the pic Navy Department. ordered that- the a.ward be will forever inspire men of good will suspended pending a complete review of the ture and uncovered the real facts, noth procurement. everywhere to greater heights. ing was done about drawings. To Mrs. Kennedy and her children and · On May 23, 1960, the Navy called the Later that sole source procurement was to the entire Kennedy family, I wish to AT948/U antenna an "off-the-shelf item canceled. convey the deepest sympathy and con which is_propriet~ry" to Chu Associates, GAO's report to me showed that in dolences of the people of the State of the developer. the past a total of 224 of these antennas Hawaii a.nd mine. On March 19, 1962, the Navy·said: have been purchased at an average sole In . Jacqueline Kennedy, American The AT 948/U antenna was designed and source price of $1,254 each. womanhoodr long epitomized by the developed by Chu Associates at its own ex Last February I predicted the price pioneer•s wife. has blossomed into full pense. would fall by at least 50 percent when bloom for the entire world to behold in On October 8, 1962, the Navy said: competitive bidding was introduced. As admiration. Burdened by the grief a direct result of my statement to the known only to a bereaved wife, she There does not, however, appear to be any requirement that the c<>ntractor prepare and House and work done by GAO,. a com 'drowned the woes of life her own in tears petitive procurement of these items was to others never shown. As the First Lady :furnish a complete set of so-called manu- facturing drawings. · issued, and the bids were opened on No of our land, she walked in composed dig vember 12, 1963. There were three bid nity as if guided by that same hand Even Chu Associates says it never sup ders. Bidder A, the low bidder, asked which inspired the rare courage and , plied drawings of the antenna because it $397.50 perunit--$857 less than the aver genius of her late husband. considered the equipment to be a pro age sole source price. Thus, the competi prietary item. tive price here was le~s than one-third There you have it. The rubberstamp the sole source price, or 31 percent. Ex PROPOSED SOLE-SOURCE PUR brigade-. Both the Navy and Chu Asso pressed another way, the sole source CHASE OF A CONTROL ANTENNA ciates said, time after time, that the an price was over 300 percent that of the FOR A DRONE 4IRP~ANE tenna was a patented item, developed at Chu's cost and, therefore, the Govern competitive price of the low bidder. Mr. WILSON of Indiana. Mr. Speak ment had no right to manufacturing Bidder B, the second low bidder, asked er, I ask unanimous consent to extend data. That evaluation was approved, re $713 per unitr-$541 less than the average my remarks at this point in the RECORD approved, and recertified time after time. sole source price. Bidder B, then, under and include extraneous matter. Now, what- was the truth? In his re cut the sole source price by 42 percent. The SPEAKER. Is there objection port to me, the Comptroller General Mr. Speaker. bidder A, the low bidder, to the request of the gentleman from said, in pa.rt: . is Randesign, Inc., Copiague, Long Isl~nd, N.Y., and bidder B is Chu Associates. Indiana.? our review (sho_wed) that research _a_nct There was no objection. development contracts were awarded by the Littleton, Mass., which got an· average Mr. WILSON of .Indiana.. Mr. Speak Navy to Dr. Lan Jen Chu and to Chu Ass-:-CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD, pa~e price, there is a ,saving on this one small right. -, 22820 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:..:_ HOUSE November 26 I supPose this, too, is not considered by whose supervision the antenna case rests. services of this i:listingtiished champion the Defense Department as being a de His is the most inefficient command of of freedom and :fighter for world peace. parture from good practice. the lot. It- is by his tacit, unSPoken con Few men have had the opporturuty to Now, to point ·three-the final point. sent that such shady deals and manipu.;. serve more notably for our Nation than I contended March 19, 1963, that the lations. are perpetrated. I shall have the late President, in both bodies of Con Navy should have manufacturing draw more to say about BeLieu in the future, gress and then for an all too brief pe ings. The Navy had said it did not have and the evidence will all point to one riod as Chief Executive of the land. them, since the antenna is a patented conclusion-BeLieu must go. As Commander in Chief of our armed item. · Today's address is the first of 10 cases services, no one is .more worthy of this . Navy contract NObsr 85111, dated Jan I will spell out to the House within the honor, Mr. Speaker, and no one will ever uary 1961, required the contractor to next 3 weeks. Tomorrow, I will deal have such good cause, even though it submit manufacturing drawings. Almost with another procurement by the Navy. must be awarded posthumously. 2 years later. the contractor submitted Conclusion: $50,000 wasted under one John Kennedy demonstrated through inadequate drawings. Four months later-, sole-source procurement. Up to $10·8,000 out his life, during the Second World the Navy got around to telling the con saved by latest competitive bidding. War and later until his tragic death last tractor they were not sufficient; but then, Friday in Dallas, that he had the qualities in June of this year, the Navy said Chu of courage that make genuine heroes. Associates could delete proprietary items A BILL TO PROVIDE THE PROTEC His life became, in fact, more than a from the drawings. TION OF FEDERAL JuRISDICTION profile in courage, but a case study in I llad. GAO check out development of TO THE PRESIDENT AND VICE courage itself. this and other antennas, and the GAO It would seem to me, Mr. Speaker, a PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED genuine resPonsibility of this House to report to me says on this topic: STATES OUr review did show that research and de enact this legislation which would au velopment contracts were awarded by the Mr. SCHWEIKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask thorize the new President, in the name Navy to I)r. Lan Jen Chu and to Chu Asso unanimous consent to extend my remarks of Congress, to award the honor. ciates, Inc., during the 1950's that called for at this point in the RECORD and include It is a small but significant gesture research in scientific areas, including anten extraneous matter. which the House could enact, Mr. Speak nas. Further, our review disclosed that Chu The SPEAKER. Is there objection er, and, in doing so, demonstrate .the Associates, Inc., had received purchase or ders or subcontracts from Government prime to the request of the gentleman from honor, respect, and love we have in our contractors during the 1950's for antennas. Pennsylvania? hearts for this distinguished American In view of these facts, it is possible that Dr. There was no objection. hero. Lan Jen Chu or Chu Associates, Inc., de Mr. SCHWEIKER. Mr. Speaker, dur~ veloped the antenna product (or antenna 1ng the tragic events of this past week family) as a result of its business with the end, I was astounded to learn that it is JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Government and its prime contractors, and, not a Federal crime to assault or assassi Mr. REID of New York. Mr. Speaker, therefore, the Government should have nate the President of the United States. obtained a royalty-free license to use the pat I ask unanimous consent to extend my ented item, including a right. to manufactur.:: Presently the.trial proceedings and the remarks at this Point in the RECORD and ing drawings in production of the equipments penalty for the assault or assassination include extraneous matter. by any company selected by the Government. of a President are solely determined by The SPEAKER. Is there objection the laws of the State in which the crime to the request of the gentleman from Thus, Mr. Speaker, point No. 3 proves occurs. New York? the Navy should have had drawings and Ironically, it is a Federal crime to kill could have gotten responsible competi There w.as no objection. lesser Federal officials such as a U.S. Mr. REID of New York. Mr. Speaker, tion much earlier than was the case. judge, U.S. attorney, Federal marshal, But, here again, inefficiency and incom all America and much of the world and FBI, Internal Revenue, and Secret mourns the late President Kennedy. All petency replaced hard work. Taking the Service agents, as well as certain em llne of least resistance and accepting of us here in the House extend our deep ployees. of the Departments of Interior est condolences to Mrs. Jacqueline Ken what was stated, without checking into and Agriculture. - it, replaced intelligent inquiry which nedy and the family. It is inconceivable to me that the pro As a young President, John F. Ken• would have saved valuable tax dollars·. tection of Federal jurisdiction offered to It will~ interesting to _see how Navy nedy truly articulated the dreams of weasels out of this case, Mr. Speaker. these lesser Federal officials has not been America and inspired young men and This case was one of the cases into which available to our President and Vice Presi women to new dimensions of service in dent. I have introduced a bill today to the cause of peace. His hopeful and Assistant Secretary MorriS must have amend Title 18, United States Code, sec looked prior to being quoted in the Wash courageous apprcrach to the future will tion 1114, so that the Presidency and Vice long live in the hearts of the people. ington Post of June 30, 1963, that "we Presidency are specifically covered. haven't found anything we consider a Who can forget his call to a. new gen On the heels of this horrible tragedy eration_- of Americans--" ask not what departure from good practice." which has befallen our Nation, I would · ls it any wonder a Member of Congress your country can do for you-ask what welcome the support of my colleagues in you can do for your country." is disgusted arid disturbed when such this effort. outright deceit and duplicity is labeled _ Who can forget hi& injunction. "to in "good'" by the No. 1 procurement omcer voke the wonders of science instead of in the Pentagon? · LEGISLATION.TO AWARD OUR LATE its terrors" in exploring the stars, con This is exactly the. way in which so quering the deserts~ eradicating disease, AND GREAT JOHN FITZGERALD tapping the ocean depths and encourag much of our Defense hardware is being KENNEDY WITH A . CONGRES bought. These middle-grade people take ing ~he arts and commerce. · · the line of least resistanc·e; the other SIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR Who can forget his recognition of the paper pushers sign anything that crosses Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I ask great truth that our "revolutionary be their desks: and the men at the top rub unanimous consent to extend my remarks liefs"-including the rights of man berstamp their mistakes. . That is the at this point in the RECORD and include "come not from the generosity of the reason why our defense dollar is buying extraneous matter. ·state but from the hand of God." less than 50 cents' worth. This is the The SPEAKER. Is there objection Now t,llat he has passed-but with us reason the working ma.n's tax bill is to the request of the gentleman from still-let us remember his imperatives: higher ea.ch year. Massachusetts? . First. That "our strength as well as . National defense has been a sacred There was no objection. our convictions have imposed upon this cow for years, and these people have Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to Nation the role of leader in freedom's committed. one atrocity after another, offer legislation which would award our cause." protected by this shel.ter. late and great John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Second. That "continued Federal leg In this particular case, the blame must with a Congressional Medal of. Honor. :islative inaction-on civil _rights-will · be shouldered by Assistant Secretary of This would be a most appropriate ac continue, if not increase, racial strife- the Navy Kenneth E. BeLieu, under tion by this body which once had the causing the leadership of both sides to 1963. CONGRESSIONAL· RECORD - HOUSE 22821
pass from the hands of reasonable and thing like: "One person, it would seem, has Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speak~r. the responsible men to the purveyors of hate taken unto himself the prerogative which~ follqwing cables have been received by and violence." · God's alone-to grant life to a human being or to take lt"..,,.-a.nd herein ls the essence of ine to transmit to the U.S. national group Third. That in building the peace the tragedy. _ , of the Inter.-Parliamentary Union and "together we shall save our planet or to Beyo:r:id merely describing what has com~ tp to the Congress. They are the expres gether we shall perish in its fiames" and pass, however, we crave an understanding of sions of sympathy of the Inter-Parlia that "it is our intention to challenge the what is happening in-our midst. mentary Union from its Secretary Gen Soviet Union, not to an arms race, but to First, we can observe that there ls among eral, Mr. de Blonay, and from the a peace race; to advance step by step, us a national personality. For I believe that same group on behalf of the Coun stage by stage, until general and com groups as well as persons express a. person cil, and the president of the Union, ~ity. We belong to clubs or small groups plete disarmament has actually been which, by virtue of the persons comprising President Mazzilli; from the Spanish achieved." them, possess a corporate personality. The g~oup through its president, Mr. De Finally, do not his words before the same, it seems, is. true of larger groups, the Ananequi; from the Brazilian group Massachusetts Legislature bear relevance church congregations we belong to, and even through its president, Mr. Rui Palmeira; to each of us here in the Congress: political pa.rtles. And a national personality from the Parliament of Monaco through Of those to whom much is given, much ts now shows· itself in grief a.nd sorrow for the its president, Mr. Louis Aureglia; from required. And when at some future date passing from this life of our President. the Italian group through its president, the h!gh court of history sits in !udgment on But Ju.st as surely a national personality Mr. Vodacci Pisanelli, and from the each one of us-recording whether our will also be observed in the days before ua in as the Nation continues to direct its people's French group through its president, Sen brief span of service we fullllled our respon ator Moutet. sib111ties to the State-our success or failure, purposes. . in whatever omce we may hold, will be Second, in seeking to understand what now I ask unanimous consent to include measured by the answers to four questions: happens among us and within us, we"must the seven cables, with three translations; were we truly men of courage--were we truly bring to the surface of consciousness what in the body of the RECORD. is at least subconscious, to say that we a.re men of judgment-were we truly men of in "I know that I interpret the sentiments tegrity-were we truly men of dedication. now struck with how mortal we a.re. That ls to say, upon seeing that another is indeed of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in request mortal we have it dramatically impressed ing you to transmit to the U.S. group our And now, Mr. Speaker, in this hour of feelings of profound emotion a.nd deep sym stark tragedy for our country, may we upon us that we, too, are mortal and that we can die as well as he. · pathy in the tragic passing ,of President Ken stand as one man back of our President But there is another side to this matter, nedy, a great champion of democracy and and our Government. May Almighty namely, that somehow, in our humanity and peace. God guide and sustain President Lyndon human society, we are a part of the whole of BLONAY, Johnson. life that creates human hatreds and pro Secretary GeneraZ. motes, albeit unwittingly, even psychopathic animosities among some of the population. PARIS, November 23, 1963. CHURCH SERVICES DEVOTED TO A It would be fitting in this circumstance, Mrs. ST. GEORGE, MEMORIAL TO OUR LATE PRESI therefore, that persons of the church use the Inter-Parliamentary Group, DENT, JOHN F. KENNEDY occasion more assuredly to dedicate them The Capitol, Washington, D.O.: selves to the Kingdom of God in our midst Sui~ certain interpreter sentiments union Mr. RIEHLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask a.lid resolve therein to use the Christian toute entiere en vous pria.nt accepter et unanimous consent to extend my remarks gospel as a. counterforce to the passions of tra.nsmettre groupe Americain sentiments at this point in the RECORD and include hatred. profonde emotion et sympathie emue a l And last, in the happenings around us we occasion tragique disparition President Ken extraneous matter. nedy grand serviteur de la democratie et de The SPEAKER. Is there objection are finding the true purpose of intercession, la paix. that ls, of intercessory prayer in which we to the request of the gentleman from render prayer in another's behalf. Be as BLONAY, New York? sured that we a.re not offering prayer .for a Secretaire General. There was no objection. dead a.nd inert body. We pray, rather, in Mr. RIEHLMAN. Mr. Speaker, this the behalf of a living soul received of our DEPUTADOS BRASILIADJ', past Sunday, I feel confident, the major Heavenly Father. We pray for a. family now November 23, 1963. ity of Members of Congress, together broken, for a young widow and her almost KATHERINE ST. GEORGE, infant children, and for a family that has House of Representatives, with millions of other Americans, and suffered much tragedy and Is now cast into .Wa1Jhington, D.O.: people all around the world, attended the consummate tragedy of human experi Please accept my own name and behalf their churches to worship. In most in ence. It should be our high hope that, in IPU Council expression deepest sympathy stances, I believe, at least a portion of praying in the face of tragedy, we shall be tragic event President Kennedy'• death. each service was devoted to a memo able to learn also of life in its-goodness and Not only the United States but the whole rial to our late President, John F. Ken blessings. world mourns one of its greatest leaders. nedy. Involving ourselves, a.s we have done, in RANIERI MAzzILLI. intercession for others, we may hope also that At the service in the church of which therein shall be found the strength and di VITORIA, November ?4, 1963. I am a member, the pastor's remarks rection !or our lives whereby we shall be GEORGE B. GALLOWAY, , were most appropriate, and his approach able to live in behalf of others and all. Library of Congress, to this terrible tragedy was helpful to me. It is a Christian thing to do, to pray for Washington, D.C.: Therefore, I would like to share these re others. It 1s a. Christian thing also to be On behalf of 'Spanish group Interl?arlia able to weep with those who weep and to mentary Union please express American marks with my colleagues and with those group our most sincere condolence. who read the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. mourn with those who mourn. So I ask that we join with others of our fellow citizens in MANUEL DE ANANEG'tJI. "On the Passing of John F. Kennedy,'' prayer, silently each in his own way, and by the Reverend Finley M. Keech, min corporately too. BRASILIA, November 26, 1963. ister of the First Baptist Church, Tully, KAT.HERINE ST. GEORGE, N.Y., follows: House of Representatives, MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY FROM Washington, D.O.: ON THE PASSING OF JOHN F. KENNEDY Deeply distressed tragical death President In the 2 days just past we have been cast MEMBERS OF THE INTER-PAR Kennedy I present name Brazilian group low by the passing of President John F. Ken LIAMENTARY UNION IN EUROPE and my own expression our deepest nedy. But in ord~r to have profound appre AND SOUTH AMERICA sympathy. ciation it is not necessary that his opinions Rux PALMEIRA. be altogether ours, nor his politics and poli Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, I cies. It ls necessary only to know that his ask unanimous consent to extend my re The Inter-Parl1amentary group of the prin country is our country a.nd that his citizen marks at this point in the RECORD and cipal1ty of Monaco 1s deeply shocked at the ship is ours as well; a.nd because of this we include messages from members of the tragic event that has put the United States can mourn his passing from mortal life in Inter-Parliamentary Union in Europe and the world in mourning. We express our midst. and South America. through you our pro:found· condolences and. We all have heard many details of tb.e cir- the deep emotion of the members of the cumsta.nces by radio a.nd television which we The SPEAKER. Is there objection National Council a.nd the whole population need not duplicate here. But in order to de to the request of the gentlewoman from of Monaco. · scribe adequately the enormity of the crime NewYork? · · · LoVIS AUREGLIA, that· has been committed we must say some- There was no objection. President. 22822 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE November 26 MONACOVILLE, November 23, 1963. weep for his widow and children, we ment by protection of the physical safety MRS. KATHERINE ST. GEORGE, have much to be thankful for. of its otllcers. I shall offer a bill to ex U.S. Interparliamentary Group, House Of We are thankful that the world is in tend existing law to protect the lives of fice Building, Washington, D.C.: Groupe Interparlementaire Principaute de relative peace. all Presidents so long as they live and the Monaco consterne par traglque evenement qui We are thankful that each American lives of all other· elected otllcials of the endeuille les etatsunis et le monde vous ex family will have a Thanksgiving meal. Federal Government, members of the prime condooleances profoundement emues · We are thankful that providence gave Cabinet, and the Justices of the Supreme des membres conseil natinal et de la popu us John F. Kennedy even for a short Court during their terms of office. lation Monegasque. while. I shall also prepare a measure which LOUIS AUREGLIA, We are thankful that out of the ashes will make punishable armed assault on President. there can come a new sense of unity and any such officials · during the same ROMA, November 25, 1963. commitment to values and purposes periods. MRS. ST. GEORGE, other than self. I commend consideration of these Chairman, United States of America Group We are thankful that in the new day measures. IPU, the Capitol, Washington, D.C.: the tensions and bitterness arising from Touched for the tragic lost President Ken unsolved problems of human rights may LINCOLN'S SPRINGFIELD MOURNS nedy on behalf of Italian group please ac at last be solved by a people and a Con cept deepest condolences while jointing to gress awakened to the need for action. ANEW the nations's. · We are thankful that this we can do in Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask ' VODACCI PISANELLI. memory of the late President. . unanimous consent to extend my remarks Deeply shocked by your national mourn We are thankful that the unity and at this point in the RECORD and include ing. The French national group wishes to partnership of the Western World has extraneous matter. express its very sincere and deep compassion. been reatllrmed and rededicated by the The SPEAKER. Is there objection MoUTET. act of respect and faith by the mon to the request of the gentleman from archs, presidents, and prime ministers of Illinois? PARIS, November 25, 1963. the West, whose country's have had There was no objection. LT. PRESIDENTE ST. GEORGE, thei;J: share of tragedy, in bowing their Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the House Office Building, tragic death of President Kennedy had Washington, D.C.: .heads under an American flag in an Profondement bouleverse par votre deuil American cemetery. unusual meaning for Springfield, Ill. national groupe Francais vous expriine sa Finally, we are thankful for and have Ninety-eight years ago that prairie com tres sincere et bien vieve compassion. a new awareness of the moral fiber, munity knew the sorrow of bringing MOUTET. courage, and strength of the American home for final rest the remains of an family, because we have been shown by other martyred President, Abraham Lin Jacqueline Kennedy that the American coln, killed-like Mr. Kennedy-in the THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN F. family has that character, courage, and prime of his life and in the prime of his KENNEDY strength. service to his country by an assassin's Mr. LINDSAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask For all of these things we are grateful, bullet. unanimous consent to extend my remarks Mr. Speaker, and for these reasons this Springfield had sent young Lincoln to at this point in the RECORD and include Thanksgiving will carry extra meaning Congress and had seen him rise to na extraneous matter. for every American home. tional fame in the Lincoln-Douglas series The SPEAKER. Is there objection of debates over slavery. On February 11, to the request of the gentleman from 1861, the citizens of Springfield received New York? PERMISSION TO -FILE ADDITIONAL Lincoln's affectionate farewell, as the There was no objection. . VIEWS TO ACCOMPANY HOUSE . President-elect entered the train that Mr. LINDSAY. Mr. Speaker, on No REPORT NO. 914 ON H.R. 7152 was to take him to the White House. Four years later he returned to Spring vember 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy died Mr. LINDSAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask in action. A young man in the height field in a coffin. unanimous consent that I and the fol Jack Heintz, the present publisher of of his powers, he gave his life for his lowing members of the Committee on the country. May God comfort his loved Springfield's Illinois State Journal, a Judiciary may have until Monday, De .. paper that reported Lincoln's ft.Ssassina ones and give guidance to President cember 2, 1963, to file additional views to Johnson in his constitutional tasks. In tion a century ago, cried out last Satur accompany House Report No. 914 or H.R. day with these words: this most critical time, for our country 7152: Mr. CAHILL, Mr. MATHIAS, Mr. MAC and for our troubled world, President GREGOR, and Mr. BROMWELL. What kind of man is this? At 1 p.m. I Johnson has my support. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to look out my window at a street Christmas As Mrs. Lindsay and I paid tribute decoration which is now black. A man has the request of the gentleman from New died at the hands of a madman. The skies to the late President in the East Room York? are darkened by a drizzling rain which echoes of the White House the day after his There was no objection. my despair. What manner of man is this young life was cut short, and later in who would differ so violently with a father, the great Rotunda of the Capital, and a husband, a country's leader who would do finally at Arlington Cemetery, our but what he felt in his h.eart was best for thoughts were with Mrs. Kennedy, the THE LATE PRESIDENT, JOHN F. his fellow American, fellow man? May God children and the family, with our coun KENNEDY have some mercy on his soul to the end of trymen, and with the people of the 17th Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask his violent, misshapen, and maniacal days. Congressional District in whose name unanimous consent to extend my remarks The Journal's companion newspaper, and for whom we stood in silent prayer. at this point in the RECORD. the Illinois State Register, the same day Out of the wreckage perhaps there will The SPEAKER. Is there objection carried this front-page black-bordered emerge a greater sense of the Nation's to the request of the gentleman from editorial: needs and fresh determination to get on Iowa? NATION IN STATE OF SHOCK AT PRESIDENT'S with the job. The Congress has been There was no objection. TRAGIC DEATH divided and deadlocked on civil rights Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, the Our beloved President is dead, victim of a and other great issues of our time. Per death of President Kennedy, like a clang bullet fired by a cowardly assassin. John haps the late President's tragic death ing of bells, tells us that we have been Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the will bring into focus and perspective the remiss. United States, who had survived the ordeals futility of putting private prejudices Assassination, because of its effect on of war as a gallant hero, went to his death ahead of public needs and human rights. the operation of this Government and as he led this Nation in a quest for peace. because of its infinite consequences, is a The people of the United States, numb Always out of the deepest dark of the with ·shock at the tragic manner in which night there comes the first rays of the different crime from murder. · our President died, mourn as one. Our new sun and the new day. This week Nothing is more completely or appro-: hearts go out in sadness and deep .sympathy we celebrate Thanksgiving .Day and priately within the Federal purview than for the President's family in their bereave though we mourn our President and the security of the functions of Govern- ment. The death of. President Kennedy is 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 22823 a loss to all humanity, a loss made even more dedicate ourselves to the principles and STEVENSON QUOTED tragic by the manner in which he died. purpose of President John F. Kennedy; We cannot expect that everyone, to use the This dastardly ~rime shook to the core let us unite in common determination to phrase of a decade ago, will "talk sense to even the most C&lloused, and the entire cleanse our national life of bigotry and the American people." But we can hope that Nation poured out its grief unashamedly at fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the news of the President's death, and min vituperation; in doing so, let us consider the notion that this Nation is headed for de gled with the tears were emotion-filled out the words of our beloved President feat through deficit, or that strength is but pourings of anger at the psychopathic killer which he had prepared to deliver to the a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain who had pulled the trigger to fire the bullet Dallas Citizens Council and the Dallas nonsense. that snuffed out the life of the President. Assembly. In that speech, an eloquent I want to discuss with you today the status John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the fourth Presi statement of American policy, it is sig of our strength and our security because dent ot the United States to die at the hands nificant that President Kennedy in this question clearly calls for the most re of an assassin, had experienced in hJs 46 sponsible qualities of leadership and the years the role of successful lawyer, author tended with words of reason to caution most enlightened products of scholarship. and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, of senator against "voices preaching doctrines For this Nation's strength and security are of the United States and of President of the wholly unrelated to reality, wholly un not easily or cheaply obtained-nor are they United States. He had experienced personal suited to the sixties, doctrines which ap quickly and simply explained. .suffering and hardship in the military serv parently assume that words will suffice There are many kinds of strength and no . ice of his country; he provided leadership without weapons, that vituperation is as one kind will sumce. Overwhelming nuclear with the quality of greatness during this cold good as victory and that peace is a sign strength cannot stop a guerrilla war. war period of international political strife of weakness.,. Formal pacts of alliance cannot stop inter with the Communists; and, he was a hus nal subversion. Displays of material wealth band and father, a role dear to his heart. The text of the undelivered speech cannot stop the dislllusionment of diplomats He was a man of integrity, a man of honesty, follows: subjected to discrimination. a man of deep conviction and sincerity. TEXT PREPARED FOR DALLAS Above all, words alone . are not enough. In a moment of tragedy, his life ended. I am honored to have this invitation to The United States is a peaceful nation. And But the principles in which he believed, and address the annual meeting of the Dallas where our strength and determination are for which he fought, will live on in the Citizens council, joined by the members of cle'ar, our words need merely to convey con hearts of all who live on to fight the battle the Dallas Assembly-and pleased to have viction, but belligerence. If we are strong, President Kennedy considered his greatest this opportunity to salute the Graduate Re our strength will speak for itself. If we are goal, the quest for peace. search Center of the Southwest. weak, words will be no help. In this hour of breavement, we join with It is fitting that these two symbols of STRENGTH OF AID 'PLAN all Americans ln their sorrow and in· their Dallas progress are united in the sponsorship I realize that this Nation often tends to prayers for our fallen leader, President John of this meeting. For they represent the best Fitzgerald Kennedy. identify turning points in world affairs with qualities, I am told, of leadership and learn the major addresses which preceded them. ing in this city-and leadership and learning But it was not the Monroe Doctrine that are indispensable to each other. kept all Europe · away from . this hemi A MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT The advancement of learning depends on sphere-it was the strength of the British KENNEDY community leadership for financial and Fleet and the width of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask political support-and the products of that It was not General Marshall's speech at Hru." learning, in turn, are essential to the leader vard which kept communism out of Western unanimous consent to extend my remarks ship's hopes for continued progress and Europe-it was the strength and stab111ty at this Point in the RECORD. prosperity. It is not a coincidence th~t those made possible by our military and economic The SPEAKER. Is there objection communi'fiies possessing the best in research assistance. to the request of the gentleman from and graduate facilities-from MJ.T. to Cal In this admlnistration also it has been Ohio? Tech-tend to attract the new a.nd growing necessary at times to issue specific warnings · There was no objection. industries. I congratulate those of you here that we could not stand by and watch the Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, the in Dallas who have recognized these basic Communists conquer Laos by force, or inter facts through the creation of the unique and vene in the Congo, or swallow West Berlin, or tragic death of President John F. Ken forward-looking graduate research center. maintain offensive missiles on Cuba. nedy has taken from us a great and But while our goals were at least tempo enlightened leader, a noble soul and a LINK IN WORLD AFFAIRS This link between leadership and learning rarily obtained in those and other instances, gifted citizen of the Republic. . ls not only essential at the community level. our successful defense of freedom was due This tragic end to the young, and It ls even more indispensable in world affairs. not to the words we used-but to the spirited life of our President has brought Ignorance and misinformation can handicap strength we stood ready to use on behalf of to our country a period of deep sadness the progress of a city or a company-but they the principles we stand ready to defend. and mourning as the full magnitude of can, if allowed to prevail in foreign .policy, REVIEWS AREAS 0:1' .STRENGTH our Nation's loss becomes more apparent handicap this country's security. In a world This strength is composed of many dif with each passing hour. of complex and continuing problems, in a ferent elements, ranging from the most mas In this period of deep sorrow, while world fUll of frustrations and ·irritations, sive deterrents to the most subtle influences. America's leadership must be guided by the And all types of strength are needed-no one our hearts and prayers go out to Mrs. lights of learning and reason-or else those kind could do. the job alone. Let us take Kennedy and her little ones, and to the who confuse rhetoric with reality and the a moment, therefore, to review this Nation's entire Kennedy family, our minds turn plausible with the possible will gain the progress in each major area of strength. to the need for a lasting and suitable popular ascendancy with their seemingly First, as Secretary McNamara made clear memorial to our late President. I can swift and simple solutions to every world in his address last Monday, the strategic· think of no greater memorial to his life problem. nuclear power of the United States has been and times than a development of the full There will always be dissident voices heard so greatly modernized and expanded in the in the land, expressing opposition without last 1,000 days, by the rapid production and truth behind his assassination. alternatives, finding fault but never favor, deployment of the most modern missile sys perceiving gloom on every side and seeking tems that any and all potential aggressors ln:fiuence without responsibility. Those are clearly confronted now with the impossi PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S UNDELIV voices are inevitable. bility of strategic victory-and the certainty ERED SPEECH But today other voices are heard in the of total destruction-if by reckless attack Mr. RYAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, land-voices preaching doctrines wholly un they should ever fore~ upon us the necessity related to reality, wholly unsuited to the of a strategic reply. I ask unanimous consent to extend my sixties, doctrines which apparently assume In less than 3 years, we have increased remarks at this point in the RECORD and that words will suftlce without weapons, that by 50 percent the number of Polaris sub include extraneous matter. vituperation is as good as victory and that marines scheduled to be in force by the next The SPEAKER. Is there objection peace is a sign of weakness. fiscal year-increased by more than 70 per to the request of the gentlemar.. from At a time when the national debt is cent our total Polaris purchase program-in New York? steadily being reduced in terms of its burden creased by 50 percent the portion of our stra There was no objection. on our economy, they see that debt as the tegic bombers on 15-mlnute alert-.and in greatest single threat to our security. At a creased by 100 percent the total number of Mr. RYAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, time when we are steadily reducing the nuclear weapons available in our strategic at this time of tragedy there is much number of Federal employees serving every alert forces. that all of us could say, yet Jn a sense thousand citizens, they fear those supposed Our security is further enhanced by the_ there is nothing to say. In this hour ot hordes of civil servants far more than the steps we 1lave taken regarding these weap national and international grief let us actual hordes CYt opposing armies. ons to improve the speed and certainty of 22824 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE November 26 theJ.r response, . th~ir readiness at all times lion required for military and economic as est and strongest expansion in our ·peacetime to respond, their ability to survive an attack sistance. economic history. and their ability to be carefully controlled Our foreign-aid program is not growing in This Nation's total output--which 3 years ·and directed through secure command size; it is, on the contrary, smaller now than ago was at the $500 billion mark-will soon operations. in previous years. It has had ~ts weaknesses, pass $600 billion for, a record rise of over But the lessons of the last decade have but we have undertaken to correct them, and $100 billion in 3 years. For the first time taught us that freedom cannot be defended the proper way of treating weaknesses is to in history we have 70 million men and by strategic nuclear power alone. We have, replace them with strength; not to increase women at work. For the first time in his therefore, in the last 3 years accelerated the those weaknesses by emasc_µlating essential tory averag~ factory earnings have exceeded dev'elopment and deployment of tactical nu programs. $100 a week. For the first time in history clear weapons-and increased by 60 percent Dollar for dollar, in or out of Government, corporation p·rofits after taxes-which have the tactical nuclear fOrces deployed in West there is no better form of investment in our risen 43 percent in less than 3 years-have ern Europe. national security than our much abused for reached an annual level of $27 .4 billion. Nor can Europe or any other continent eign-aid program. We cannot afford to lose My friends and fellow citizens, I cite these rely on nuclear forces . alone, whether they it. We can afford to maintain it. We can ·facts and figures to make it clear that Amer are strategic or tactical. We have radically surely afford, for example, to do as much for ica today is stronger than ever before. Our improved the readiness of our conventional our 19 needy neighbors of Latin America adversaries have not abandoned their ambi forces--increased by 45 percent the number as the Communist bloc is sending to the is tions-our dangers have not diminished of combat ready army divisions.--increased la.nd of Cuba alone. our vigilance cannot be relaxed. But now we by 100 percent the procurement of modern LOSS THROUGH BALLOTS have the military, the scientific and the eco army weapons and equipment--increased by nomic strength to do whatever must be done 100 percent our ship construction, conver I have spoken of strength largely in terms for the preservation and promotion of free sion and modernization program-increased of the deterrence and resistance of aggres dom. by 100 percent our procurement of tactical sion and attack. But, in today's world. free That strength will never be used in pur.:. aircraft--increased by 30 percent the num dom can be lost without a shot being fired, suit of aggressive ambitions-it wm always ber of tactical air squadrons-and increased by ballots ao well as bullets. The success of be used in pursuit of peace. It will never be the strength of the Marines. our leadership is dependent upon respect for used to promote provocations-it will always As last month's Operation Big Lift--which our mission in the world as well as our mis be used to promote the peaceful settlement originated here in Texas-.showed so clearly, siles-on a clearer recognition of the virtues of disputes. this Nation is prepared as never before to of freedom as well as the evils of tyranny. We in this country, in this generation, move substantial numbers of men in sur That is why our information agency has are--by destiny rather than choice--the prisingly little time to advanced positions doubled the shortwave broadcasting power watchmen on the walls of world freedom. anywhere in the world. We have increased of the Voice of America and increased the We ask, therefore that we may be worthy by 175 percent the procurement of airlift number of broadcasting hours by 30 per of our power and responsibility-that we aircraft--and we have already achieved a cent--increased Spanish-language broad may exercise our strength with wisdom and 915 percent increase in our existing strategic casting to Cuba and Latin-American read restraint-and that we may achieve in our airlift capability. Finally, moving beyond ers-and taken a host of other steps to carry time and for all time the ancient vision of the traditional roles of our military· force_s, our message of truth and freedom to all the peace on earth, good will toward men. That we have achieved an increase of neitrly 6.00 far corners of the earth. must always be our goal-and the righteous percent in our special forces-those forces And that is also why we have regained tlie ness of our cause must always underlie our that are prepared to work with our allies and initiative in 1ihe exploration of outer space- strength. For as was written long ago, "Ex friends against the guerrillas, saboteurs, in making an annual effort greater than the cept the Lord keep the city, the watchman surgents and assassins who threaten freedom combined total of all_space activities under waketh but in vain." in a less direct but equally dangerous man- taken during· the fiftie&--launching more ner. . than 130 vehicles into earth orbit--putting But American military might should not into actual operation valuable weather and JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY and need not stand alone against the ambi· communications satellites-and making it tions of international communism. Our se clear to all that the United States of Amer Mr. JOELSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask curity and strength, in the la.st analysis, ica has :,10 intention of finishing second in unanimous consent to extend my remarks directly depend on the security and strength space. at this point in the RECORD. of others-and that is why our military and This effort is expensive but it pays its economic assistance plays such a key role The SPEAKER. Is there objection own way, for freedom and for America. For to the request of the gentleman from in enabling those who live on the periphery there is no longer any fear in the free world of the Communist world to maintain their that' a Communist lead in space will be New Jersey? independence of choice. come a permanent assertion of supremacy There was no objection. Our assistance for these nations can be and the basis of mllltary superiority. There ' Mr. JOELSON. Mr. Speaker, in a sun painful, risky, and costly, as is true in south is no longer any doubt about the strength lit street last Friday, a moment in ~ime east Asia today. But we dare not weary of and skill of American scie;nce, American in was made timeless in tragedy. And now the task. For our assistance makes possible dustry, American education, and the Ameri the stationing of 3.5 million allied troops we mourn our lost President. can free enterprise system. In short, our The sense of revulsion that humanity along the Communist frontier at one-tenth national space effort represents a great gain the cost of maintaining a comparable num in, and a great resource of, our national has produced the twisted snipe:r: may be ber of American soldiers. A successful Com strength-and both Texas and Texans are tempered by the sure knowledge that it munist breakthrough in these areas, neces contributing greatly to this strength. as also produced the nobility that was sitating direct U.S. intervention, would cost Finally, it should be cleaJ" QY now that a John F. Kennedy. us several times as much as our entire for nation can be no stronger abroad than she He has left us a legacy of high purpose eign-a.id program, and might cost us heavily is at home. Only America which practices and idealism. Our wiUingness to accept in American lives as well. what it preaches about equal rights and so this inheritance and our active commit MOST FOR ~INE COUNTRIES cial justice will be respected by those whose ment to it would be our finest memorial About 70 percent Pakistan, which is growing and prospering economical VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Thailand, Greece, Turkey, and Iran. No one ly can sustain the worldwide defense of free NATIONAL HOME of these countries possesses on its own the dom, while demonstrating to all con~erned The SPEAKER. Under previous order resources to maintain the forces which our the opportunities of our system and society. own chiefs of staff think ·needed in the com It is clear, therefore, that we are strength of the House, the gentleman from In mon interest. ening our security as well as our economy by diana [Mr. ROUDEBUSH] is recognized for Reducing our efforts to train, equip, and our recent record increases in national in 20minutes. assist their armies can only encourage Com come and output-by surging ahead of most Mr. ROUDEBUSH. Mr. Speaker, I munist penetration and require in time the of Western Europe in the rate of business have asked for this time today to make increased oversea deployment of American ex_{>ansion. the Members of Congress aware of a very combat forces. And reducing the economic And the margin· of corporate profits-by wonderful and unique institution located help needed to bolster these nations that un maintaining a more stable level of prices dertake to help defend freedom can have the than almost any of our oversea competi at Eaton Rapids, Mich. same disastrous result. In short, the $50 bil tors-and by cutting personal and corporate This institution is operated by a great lion we spe11.d each year on our own defense income taxes by some $11 billion) as I have veterans' organization, the Veterans of could well be ineffec1;ive without the $4 bil- proposed, to. assure this Nation of the long- Foreign Wars of the United States, and 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 22825 is called the Veterans of Foreign- Wars cupancy was in March 1925, when the partment of Montana built a modern National Home. . widow of one of our members, and her dairy farmstead to house the Holstein Many of you know, I believe, of i;tiY ac six children, became the first family to cow herd originally started by South tivities in the VFW, for I feel sure you move into the home. Ai that time, they Dakota and provide modern and sani- remember that I met some of you in your were housed .in the original farmhouse tary dairy equipment.. . native States when I toured our Nation which had served as the residence on the It seems that when one who loves our as Commander in Chief in 1957 and 1958. Grand River Stock Farm. home attempts to discuss or describe The VFW actually is the second largest The original land· conveyed to the this great institution, it is diftlcult to veterans' organization in the world, and VFW amounted to 472 acres. However, r.estrict the amount of time and space. is the largest organization consisting ex later purchases increased the size of On June 30, 1962, our annual audit, clusively of men who have served our Na these holdings to the 640 acres the home certified by a CPA, showed the fixed tion overseas and were thus awarded a presently occupies. assets of the home, including the build campaign medal for such service. I The first cottage--and here I might ings, land, livestock, et cetera, to be might add further that the VFW requires qualify that term by saying that the cot valued at $1,805,084. I think you would an honorable discharge from wartime tages at our national home are rather be interested in knowing how the money service in the armed services and cam elaborate, permanent dwellings con is obtained for the care and education paign medal service for eligibility. structed of either brick or stone and of the children at our national home. Our organization is chartered by Con equivalent to private homes in the very Primarily, the source of income is gress and is now made up of nearly 10,000· best neighborhoods of American citie&. threefold: individual units called posts. The mem was built in 1926 by the State of Michi First, funds are obtained from the bership rolls number nearly 1,300,000. gan, and is referred to now as Michigan sale of Christmas seals to the members · Inasmuch as the United States has Cottage No. 1. This cottage is still in of the VFW and the ladies' auxiliary; participated in many campaigns and ex existence and is in use by the home. and very importantly, the annual sale peditions, we find our membership made The first cottage constructed by a de of the VFW buddy poppy provides .vital up of veterans of the Spanish-American partment-or State--organization of the help and income; naturally, a third War, World War I, World War II, the VFW was New York No. 1, completed in source would be contributions from posts Korean conflict, and the many cam 1927. Since that time, many other de and auxiliaries, as well as donations and paigns and expeditions recognized by the partments have built cottages at our bequests from individuals who love this U.S. Government. national home, and each unit represents home so very dearly. The VFW is also' very proud of its a great deal of hard work by my com I would say that the national home ladies auxiliary of some 400,000., giving rades and sisters of the VFW residing of the VFW is in the very forefront of a combined membership of men and in the department which provides the children's homes regardless of location in women of nearly 1 % million Americans. funds for the construction. providing a homelike, noninsti.tutional The VFW this year is. headed by an out Only in one instance was a cottage atmosphere-. Family-sized' living · units standing veteran from Brooklyn, N.Y., constiucted by one individual post. ,That each have a house mother and provide Joseph J. Lombardo, and our ladies was Parker D. Cramer Post 2145 in .Clar a typical American home in suburban auxiliary is under the direction' of the ion, Pa. The last cottage completed was like surroundings, wlth complete inte National :President, Lillian Campbell, of by the Department of North Dakota in gration into ~hool, civic, · and .religious Neenah, Wis. . 1962, and we now have 32 of these beau life of· the nearby community of Eaton I have indicated that this is a unique tiful homes housing children and giving Rapids: The house mother prepares the organization, and our national home is ample room for a total of 230 boys and food for her family unit, and I can as an unique institution. I think that its girls. · sure you that I have sampled this food very founding iS unusual, and will be of So many comrades and sisters of our and would say that it is of excellent interest to the Members of this Congress. organization have contributed to the quality and that each meal is prepared In September 1924, first consideration growth of the home that it is impossible and eaten in the same manner as it was given at the national encampment to list them all. Very important assist would ·be in an average American home. of the VFW, held that year at Atlantic ~nce to. the national home came from The blessing is offered, and the trials City, N.J., .to the establishment of a .na the ladies auxiliazy, for example, in and tribulations of juvenile life are di.s .tional home for the orphan children of building the original hospital and then, cuS,Se,d by the children with their house our members. The National Council of as a separate project, adding a wing to mother. - · , _ · Administratfon, the ruling body of the that hospital. The ladies auxiliary also The VFW has never felt it woul<,\ 'be VFW between encatnpments, had a ses built the community center, the nursery, wise to set up private school$ on· the sion in Kansas City, Mo., in October of the guest lodge and the chapel, and in homesite, and has provided that school 1924 and appointed a committee with stalled a complete street-lighting system. and religious life be in the public schools full power to. act as it deemed fit to ac The Milita:cy Order of the Cootie like and in churches of the children's own quire farmland near Eaton Rapids, wise has furnished important and choice in Eaton Rapids. . Mich., and thereby provide the estab needed additions to the home by 'con During its nearly 40 years of service, lishment of a national home. The com.: structing an athletic field and fteld the VFW national home has provided mittee reported favorably to another hotise, as well as the beautiful swimming. care for a great . number of children, council meeting in December 1924, and pool, the fire barn and its modern and many of whom lived there during thefr action was taken to convey to the VFW efficient firetruck, which is manned by entire childhood. Hundreds have gradu National Home the then Grand River the older boys living at the national ated from Eaton Rapids High School and Stock Farm at Eaton Rapids, owned by home: a great number have gone on to schools Mr. and Mrs. Corey J. Spencer, of Jack It is most difficult· to single out those of higher learning, including universities son, Mich. - who have contributed time and money and trade schools. The higher learning The home was incorp.orated, following for our national home, but this great is usually on scholarships provided by its acceptance of the farmland by the institution is mighty close to the hearts various individuals, VFW organizations, VFW, as a nonprofit membership corpo of all the men and women of the VFW. or by the home itself. More than 150 of ration under the laws of the State of Individual posts, county councils, dis our children served in Wo,rld War II and Michigan, and charter was filed with the tricts, and departments have built Korea, and 3 of our fine young men paid secretary of state of the State of Michi streets, provided transportation and the supreme sacrifice. Many received gan in January 1925. · This act was ap heating systems, and provided generai medals and citations and were wounded proved by the national encampment in upkeep and improvement of the cot in service. They, like their fathers, have August 1925, at Tulsa, Okla. · By this tages. The Michigan ladies' auxiliary . joined that great group of comrades who action, I feel that my comrades of the built the relief housemothers cottage, have served this Nation so very well. VFW gave real emphasis to the long and the department of Pennsylvania ex The alumni of our home make up an standing VFW motto-"To honor. the panded and improved the Woodside Cen impressive list of engineers, lawyers, doc dead by helping the living." ter, ·named in honor· of· a distinguished tors, businessmen, farmers,· nurses, sec To continue just briefly with the ·his past commander in chief, Robert G. retaries, and homemakers who provide tory of our natio~al ho~e, the first oc- Woodside. And just recently the de- care for their own .children. They have 22826 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -.HOUSE November 26 :fttted themselves well into the social and It's the Montana. Farmstead at the Vet themselves with the church of their family erans of Foreign Wars National Home in choice and participate in youth groups of industrial life of our Nation. Most of south-central Michigan 23 miles from the Eaton Rapids churches. . our graduates now have their own fami State capital of Lansing. Many home graduates have gone on to lies, and those living near our national The VFW National Home ls a unique vil college, helped by VFW and other scholar home often return .for visits, along with lage of children-uniqu"' in that it is avail ships. More- than 150 have served in the which gave them their chance in life. able only to widows, sons, and daughters of Armed. Forces. Graduates who now have If the VFW had no other function, its VFW members. . It also 1s one of the most their own famllles often return t.o show their existence would certainly be justified by beautifully developed children's villages in children the home that gave them a good the world. start in life. the opportunity furnished our children. Playing a large part in the financial and The home is one of the ways in which the May I conclude by saying what in educational operations of the home is the VFW keeps its pledge of "honoring the dead spired these remarks before the Con Montana Farmstead, the pride of Montana by helping the living." gress. The VFW national home is oper VFW and auxiliary members who have more ated by a board of trustees, made up of than $56,000 invested in this modern dairy 10 home districts representing the States farm. NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY of the United States. This board serves A Montanan, Fred Barrett, of Chester, has an important role in the operation of the Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask a period of 5 years on staggered terms, home. He was elected president of the unanimous consent that the gentleman so that two trustees are subject to elec home board last October and wm serve until !rom Indiana CMr. BRAY] may extend tion each year. This year I was honored October 1963. his remarks at this point in the RECORD by election to the board of trustees, When it was founded in 1925, the VFW and include extraneous matter. representing district 4, which is Michi National Home was a single farm cottage and The SPEAKER. Is there objection gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and a group of farm buildings on 472 acres. to the request of the gentleman from Indiana. From the first family, the widow and 6 chil dren of Sgt. Edward Pollett, it has grown to Maryland? The other new trustee ta_ join the. board a present capacity of 250 children. There · There was no objection. was Dr. Guy C. Richardson, of Bristol, now are 195 children and 40 housemothers. Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, the ramifi Va. . . at the home. cations of the nuciear test ban treaty are. At its first meeting, the board elected The home today has 50 units, including 32 of concern to all of us and we will con Mrs. Hedwig Olson, of Denison, Iowa, eottages, a modern hospital, day nursery, tinue to study them as time goes on. as president, and Benjamin F. Winn, of guest lodge, chapel, clothing and grocery One of the most worthwhile dis Rohnert Park, Calif., as vice president. store on a 50-acre campus, and the Montana Farmstead, with 690 acres of fertile dairy cussions I have seen on the subject is in The board also reelected.Charles A. Wag and orchard land. the following article by Dr. Lev Dobrian ner, of Dearborn, Mich., as attorney, and The home was developed entirely within sky which appeared in the Ukrainian Mr. A. E. Littlefield, of Eaton Rapids, as the VF'W organization. State departments Quarterly: · secretary-treasurer. Both of these men l;lave provided many Improvements, includ THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY AND THB have served the home for many years. ing family-sized cottages, a service center, COLD WAR Other trustees are Thomas Bennett, of picnic ground, private lake area, swimming (By Lev E. Dobrlansky) Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Gertrud.e Rhind. pool, athletic- field, water-softening system, firefighting equipment, and paved streets. With the so-called first step toward guar of Wilmington, Del.;. Mr. William R. Not all State organizations have had unit anteeing the peace, it would do well for most Baker, of Winnsboro,. La.:1 Mr. Fred E. projects at the home, but children from all Americans to learn an old Turkestanian Barrett, of Chester, Mont.; Mr. Walter J. States are welcome 1! they meet eligibility proverb: "When you tra.vel with a Russian, Gates, of Galveston, Tex.; and Mr. Wel requirements. There is no distinction as to make sure you carry an ax." The Kennedy lington Rupp, of Seattle, Wash. creed. 8.dminlstration has decided to travel With When the Montana Veterans' of Foreign the Russians on the limited nuclear test Wars Department began its dairy farmstead ban treaty. What ax, if any, is it carrying? project at the home in the fall of 1957, there The partial nuclear test ban treaty may MONTANA FARM IN MICHIGAN AT well give rise to the biggest hoax of the cold THE VFW'S NATIONAL HOME . were only an old barn and a farmhouse at the location. war. The hoax is the beginning of the end Mr. ROUDEBUSH. Mr. Speaker, ' I Now there are a 10,000-baie hay barn with of the cold war itself. Many Americans al ask unanimous consent that the gentle concrete yard, a 52 by 1.50- foot cattle barn or ready are talking in this uncritical vein. lf loafing parlor for the dairy cows, a modern such talk should assume serious proportions, - man from Montana CMr. Olsen] may ex the unswerving enemy will have scored a . tend his remarks at this point in the milking parlor, new fencing, and new silos with an automatic silage mover connected to momentous victory in the cold war. The RECORD and include an article. the feed bunk. effectS of this spreading illusion would be The SPEAKER. Is there objection With the new farm setup, the milking herd catastrophic for our cold war efforts and to the request of the gentleman from was increased from about oiO head to more operations, inferior though they have been. Indiana? than 90, with more increases planned. Dur; In the Senate hearings on the treaty many delicate questions and points wlll undoubt There was no objection. ing the past 5 years. the !arm has developed to the point where a net profit of more than edly be raised. Indeed, the treaty itself is Mr. OLSEN of Montana. Mr. Speak an awful gamble With our national security. er, in carrying on the discussion of the $7,000 was realized last year to aid in the home's operation. Previously the farm was Testing of all kinds is necessary for the ad Veterans of Foreign Wars National vancement of our milttary technological Home, it is with great pride that I point a nonpaying proposition, and in some years a knowledge and thus, in all its ramifications. liab1lity. · of our national interests. Testing ls by out the participation of my State of All finances for the home are direct dona :Montana in making this national home nature experimentation, and through the tions from VFW and auxmary members with latter we learn more ih ways of development a reality. the exception of the public buddy poppy sale; and control. Even the dangers of fallout Mr. Speaker, this national home pro which is VFW-sponsored-1 penny for . every have by this normal process been reduced to vides for what every mother and father poppy sold goes to the home. The sale of a thin minimum. Ara we, to deprive our 1n every section of· our beloved country VFW National Home Christmas Seals to VFW selves of such critical knowledge because of prays for. A place in the world where and auxmary members accounts for the emotional and irrational pleas for peace, children may grow up, pursuing their largest single income item, about $200,000 net much of it stimulated by Moscow's propa annually. The current operating budget is ganda machine for the past 8 years? The quest for peace and contentment in . a over a half m1llion dollars. climate of peace and universal goOd will. greatest guarantee against the outbreak of . The home has pioneered in certain aspects a hot global war is our overall mllitary and To explain fully the work the Mon of residential child care methods and is technological superiority. The treaty does tana VFW and auxiliary have done in recognized as one of the finest ln the United not conduce to this guarantee. making the Montana Farmstead a real States. Child care experts from all over the Also, what of the indispensable develop ity and a paying entity at the home, I world visit the home, many of them at the ment of the antimissile missile, which only include the article. appearing in the suggestion of the United Nations, to observe by atmospheric testing can be efficiently March 3 issue of the Great Falls Tribune and learn its methods. undertaken? Would a ratifled treaty lead at this point in the RECORD: . No children are adopted from the home. to the demobilization of our nuclear capital Families are kept intact. The average child as represented by our assembled scientists, MONTANA FARM IN '_MICHIGAN at the home has been there for more than 3 engineers,. facilities, and so forth? Who in (By Rita Lindblom) years, some for their. entire childhood. · his right mind would trust the Russians not One of the most unusual of Montana Children attend public school in · Eaton to cheat on undetectable nuclear explosions fa.rm.steads is deep in the dairyland of an Rapids, 4 miles distant. Those old ·enough in the atmosphere under 1 kiloton and other State. to attend church are required to amuate the use of their results for adapted massive ,. 1963 CONGRESSIONAL :RECORD-:HOUSE 22827. missile development? Furthermore, since it Great ' Britain the pressure to show some However, curiously enough, we have paid rel_.. is held ·with some validity that the heavy thing as an offset to Cuba and· the ·scandalous atively Uttle attention to the totalistic proc expenditures involved in nuclear testing have Profumo case, respectively; is intense·. esses .and attainments of Soviet Russian compelled ·the Russian totalitarians to seize The treaty and its-assumed observance will imagemaking. Category by category, rang upon this treaty, aren't we relieving them of in no way lead to ·the ces8ation of the cold ing from the ideologic to the athletic; on the this extra burden to patch up their imperial war. The treaty cannot rationally be re average we far surpass- the Russians, but yet economy for even more intensi\ie · cold war· garded as even the· first step to any such somehow, in the aggregate and in the minds operations-the Chicoms? - eventuality. Indeed, to think in the most of millions throughout the world, we are held · The burden of these and many more ques ultimate terms that the cold war could end to be in fierce competition by an adversary tions rests with the proponents of this without the necessary collapse of the inr who claims the future will rest with him. treaty, not its opponents. Even from a perial structure maintained by Moscow sug The whole of the Soviet Russian image far strictly legal point of view the treaty is gests both an unfamiliarity with East Euro exceeds the sum of its parts. The remark subject to serious question. Much can and pean history and a failure to understand the able ab1lity of Moscow's totalitarians to pro will be made of article IV in the treaty which nature of the cold war itself.' But, for that ject such a dynamic and imposing image is states that "each party shall in exercising matter, both deficiencies have for too long the consummate result of a number of insti its national sovereignty have the right to punctuated U.S. foreign policy. tutional reasons. This unique capacity in withdraw from the treaty." What national Moreover, despi:te its imperialist rift with global Potemkinism is founded in the totaliz sovereignty is ~xercised by an empir~-state Peiping, Moscow has been thoroughly con ing political realm on a rich heritage of prac such as the Soviet Union, and a democratic sistent in its resolve to wage the cold war on tical and speculative experience that in but multinational entity like United King the basis of its meaning of "peaceful coex cludes, over the · centuries, the cumulative dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? istence." Taking· just the most recent pe achievements of empire building, the deep Two of the three "original parties," the de riod, we should 'review a few examples of perceptions into the recesses of human be pository governments, are mischaracterized Moscow's meaning. In January 1957, Khru havior by the Dostoyevskys, the Tolstoys, and and fallaciously defined right from the start. shchev minced no words when he declared: the Pavlovs, the long traditions of revolu If parties to a contract are misrepresented in "For all of us • • • Stalin's name is insepa tionary and conspiratorial activity, .the secret light of fact and logic, the entire contract rable from Marxism-Leninism. Therefore, society, and the Iron Curtain, and-in the is overshadawed by this basic invalidity. In each one of us, members of the Communist basic institutional lineage of the khans, a court of law such an ill-based contract Party of the Soviet Union, strives to be· as czars, and commissars-efficient practices in could hardly survive the court's objective faithful to Marxism-Leninism • • • as Sta totalitarian control. A study and· under strictures. Why should it in this all-impor lin was faithful to this cause." The cause standing of this type of assault-the assault tant case? Or are we to multiply error and of Stalin was the cause 'of Soviet Russian of creative imagery to influence, deceive, and fiction? imperio:-colonialism. confuse in preparation for practical con Highly import.ant, too, for a studied con On Januiiry 6, 1961, Khrushchev reaffirmed quest-should guard us against emotional sideration of the treaty are the points of · traditional Russian cold war policy when he swings of underestimation as . well as over an armaments race and a succeeding non stated, "We will beat the United States with estimation, against needless -concessions as aggression pact. The treaty is suppos.ed to small wars of liberation. We will nibble well as narrow rigidity, in coping with the herald the intention of curbing the arma them to exhaustion all over the globe, in centuries-shaped adversary. Above . all, ments race. In developing more pow.erful South America, Africa, southeast Asia." knowing that the Soviet Union is the crucial and efficient weapons the United States has New? Not at all. For centuries Russian im power center and all else, including Red been in no race. Regardless of what Moscow perio-colonialists have been "liberating" China, is basically adventitious, they should does or does not do, our goal should un nc·n-Russian peoples for one reason or an motivate us in concentrating on a complete qualifiedly be an adequacy of the best weap other. Significantly, even during the Sino unmasking of both the assault and the as- ons along the full spectrum of weaponry. Soviet talks in Moscow, July 1963, Russian saulter. · As to a succeeding nonaggression pact be orgaris emphasized that the Red Chinese tween NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations, have nothing over the Soviet Russians in the SOVIET RUSSIAN IDEOLOGY IN THE COLD WAR. a ratification of the partial test ban treaty pursuit of these wars of liberation. And When Khrushchev visited the United should in no way be interpreted as a pred this immediately prior to the signing of the States in 1959, every American had the op ication for such a pact. Khrushchev's one nuclear test ban treaty. portunity to witness at first hand the dis great dream has been to obtain our accept play and manipulation of the philosophico ance of his empire. In point of logic, for THE INTENSIFIED COLD WAR ideologic component in the image Moscow a nonaggressor to agree with a historical Confronted now by the massive competi has sought to convey to the world. The aggressor on nonaggression is a rather one tion issuing from Peiping for leadership march of communism, burying decadent sided and even absurd agreement. As an among the Communist parties throughout capitalism, is supposedly in the historical imperio colonialist power, Moscow, in fact, is the world, Moscow will have to intensify its works. This was the philosophico-ideologic in a state of constant aggression, and any cold war efforts in order that its demonstra pitch made by Khrushchev; this has been the such simple agreement on no;n.aggression tive deeds wm exceed the stern competiror's. fraudulent pitch made by the successors of would sanctify this state. It is all important Unavoidably, we shall feel the brunt of· all the Russian czars since the establishment to keep the test ban treaty and this. pro this. Whet-?er we like it or not, the demands of Soviet Russia in 1917 and the forced in posed pact strictly apart. for cold war education on our part will be ception of the Soviet Union in 1923. And, Perhaps the most important of questions greater than ever before. strangely enough, countless of our citizens bears on the cold war implications of the In meeting these demands we shall truly continue to believe that the real struggle is test. ban treaty? Is it, as the President has have to reexamine our views, habits, and no between capitalism and communism. This said, a shaft of light in the cold war? To be tions regarding the Soviet Union . . Karl Marx specious belief is an ideological-propagandist lieve this is only a psychological preparation wrote, "The Russian bear is certainly capable achievement by Moscow.- for the hoax mentioned earlier. Such naive of anything, so long as he knows the other Those who have had systematic training belief runs ·counter to the facts of typical animals he has to deal with to be capable of in Marxism and its organic structure of Russi·an cold war play; it blindly ignores the nothing." In the contemporary context ·thought, have over the years attempted to utterances of the Soviet Russian totalitari this, of course, is an extreme historical ob impress upon the inquiring mind the fact ans. More, it reduces our own effectiveness. servation, since the eagle, the lion, and oth that Marxism is a mythical foundation of The test ban treaty itself is in part the result ers are capable of more than nothing. Yet Leninism and all the ismatic variations that of Russian cold war calculation. this Marxian insight into the nature· of the have followed. The arbitrary attachment of From Moscow's point of view, the treaty beast, regardless of his ideologic pigmenta Marxism to the Soviet Russian ideologic can serve numerous ends. It is a slap at Red tion, carries immense weight and validity in scheme may lend philosophical dignity and China; it will decelerate American progress the one sphere on clear-cut Soviet Russian status to .the superficial operationalism of in military technology and weaponry; it can superiority-the all-embracing sphere of po .Lenin's works and those that followed, but accommodate Russian cheating; it will per iitical psychology, artful propaganda, sys in fact Marxism bears so much relationship mit the retention of Russian superiority in tematic imagemakirig. It is in this sphere, to Russian totalitarian thought and, ob high mega.tonnage weaponry; it will allow incorporating and interrelating into a mani jectively, to the Soviet Union, as does French a diversion of resources in the economy that fest whole of projected imagery factors of physiocracy to our society. On fundamental might enhance output for more effective cold ideologic, political, economic, miHtary-space, doctrinal points ·of economic determinism, war operations; and it is a lever for the exac and general cultural character, that impe the concept of society versus. state, the forced tion of a possible nonaggression pact and all rial Moscow wages its Communist assault on -institution of socialism in underdeveloped that this would entail to the cold war detri American freedom. .areas, the Leninist totalitarian vanguard, ment of the United States and the free In 1960, and on many occasions since, we Marxian philosophical humanism, and the world. Americans have been seriously cencerned labor theory of value, Marxism in the Rus Neither can Moscow's sudden accession to about the image of the United States in the sian ideological scheme stands as a crass per the test ban treaty be divorced from its eval world at large. We have been concerned version. ·uation Of the political factors surrounding about our prestige, about how Qther peoples Fortunately, in our country more and more Washington -and London. Administrations and nations regard us as to our intentions, ls being written about this ideologic perver in both centers will be up for election next our goa~s. economic performance, scientific sion. More and more of our people are be year, and in both the United States ~nd feats·, _mmtary capability, and national wm. ginning to realize that communism is an 22828 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.:...:.. HOUSE November 26 Instrument of ldeologic deception manipu-. England soon after th-e Cap.tive Nations Week from Illinois [Mr. RUMSFELD] rn.ay extend lated by .the real enemy, Soviet Russia im-c episode.in .1959; (2) the scandalous UNESCO his remarks at this Point in the RECORD perio-coloniallsm; that Marxism ls a false study, ."Equality of Rights Between Races credential in the Soviet Russian image, a. and Nationalities in the U.S.S.R." (by I. P. and fu.clude extraneous matter. · facade behind which the real forces of im Tsameyian and S. Ronin. UNESCO, 1962). · The, SPEAKER. ·rs · the:r;e objection I perialist conquest and colonial exploitation which we helped to ·subsidize but which few to the request of the gentleman from operate; that the real struggle ls not be Americans have been able to obtain-includ Maryland? tween capitaliSin and communism but, in-. ing, it ls said, Ambassador Stevenson-is a There was no objection. stead, between freedom and Soviet .Russian neat,. disreputable ~ work. of half-truths de~ Mr. RUMSFELD. ·Mr. Speaker, I in totalitarianism; and that Moscow's cold war signed to preserve at all costs the political clude in the RECORD the fallowing edito manipulation of a perverted ideology ls not component of the Soviet Russian image. rial comments which indicate, as well as a new practice. The czars, like the com Here. too, much study and work remain to missars, also hid behind ideologic ma.sks be done. Yet, when our own Secretary of any words ca.n, the depth of feeling, the those of religious orthodoxy and racist pan-. State believes the Soviet Union is a his profound shock, and the grief and sor Slavlsm. torical state, of which Georgia, Armenia, and row which is felt by the people of Accumulated evidence clearly shows that Ukraine are ",traditional parts"-only to be Illinois. - when we strike out against ideologic com completely contradicted by our U.N. ambas A dedicated, valiant, and sacrificing mu~ism, scarcely a ripple ls produced in Mos sador shortly thereafter; when we spend leader has been taken from the Nation cow. On the other hand, when we penetrate $20,000 for an arms control and disarma by an incomprehensible act of violence. the ideologic veneer and merely scratch the ment study (Walter Mills: "The Political real enemy of Soviet Russian imperio Control of an International Police Force") With heavy hearts, we join with millions colonlallsm, the bear squeals. Much remains to be told that "whether we admit it to oiir across the globe in mourning his loss, in to be done in exposing the philosophico selves or not, we benefit enormously from the extending our prayers for his family, ideologic fraud of the Soviet Russian image, capability of the Soviet police system to keep and in pledging our SUPPort to our new and negatively a study of Marxism can do law and order over the 200-million-odd Rus President at this time of national crisis. it. Positively, a study of Marxism anc1 its sians and the many additional millions in The editorial comments fallow: historical interpretations and insights into the satellite states".; when, repeating an old and stale argument, RQStow tells us that .it is [From the Chicago Sunday American, the Russian, Empire. traditional Russian cold Nov. 24, 1963) . war activity, and the perennial goals of Rus "an American interest to see the end of na sian statism helps immensely in the forma tionhood as It has bee:µ historically defined,'' THE PRESIDENT WE'VE LOST tion of accurate historical perspectives on one cannot but begin to wonder who is help America's change of Pree.iden.tS from John this East European and Asiatic problem. ing whom in preserving the Soviet Russian F. Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson has been However, it ls also indispensable to penetrate image. Regrettably,. even the President af brought about by bullets-methods dread the political component of the total Soviet fects the cause of truth when in his Ameri fully familiar in some countries, but st.range Russian image for our understanding of can University address in June 1963 he stated and deeply shocking in the United. States. the Communist assault on· American free the quarter-truth that "no nation in the It is especially tragic that the victim of this dom. history of battle ever suffered more than the assassination should have been the laughing Russians suffered in the course of the Sec and confident Kennedy. THE. SOVIET RUSSIAN POTEMKIN VILLAGE ond World War." We need hardly wonder While he lived, he was leader of the Marx called the Czarist Russian Empire a how the Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian world-the free part o! the world-and he "prison house of nations." Today, this con and other non-Russian nations in the led not only because he commanded the vast ception is no less applicable to the Commis :CJ.S.S.R., who actually suffered the chief resources Of the United States but also be sars' Soviet Union, the political component brunt of the Nazi... German invasion, .must cause he awakened faith 1n his purposea in the Soviet Russian image. When, as in react to this misleading statement af an among those with whom he came in contact. the case of Marxism and Communist ideol American President. · In his ·own country he· led with imagina ogy, we fail to analyze critically the terms OTHER COLD WAR MUSTS FOR US tion and courage. In this time of great and in use and carelessly identify Russia and the rapid change, he was well suited to his task Soviet Union. Moscow has no problem in The economic, military and cultural com ponents of the grand Soviet Russian image because he was a believer in change; he projecting the image of an expanding nation looked for good to come out of it; so he was sta.te with numerous so-called minorities are subject to the same critical analysis for practical disintegration. From every view not timid about letting old values go. He and ethnic groups, similar to the United felt the country would benefit by the change. States. . In fact, this fallacious concept is point, the colonial economy in the U.S.S.R. is essentially an underdeveloped economy Although some of his suggestions were not contained in the test ban treaty. When, on acceptable to many .conservai;ive minds, the the other hand, the U.S.S.R. is shown to be with overdeveloped ambitions. One cannot but express amazement at times at some of American people are indebted to him be an imperto-colonial system where many dif cause, In general, he taught· them to examine ferent nations are held in captivity, Moscow the comparisons drawn between our national economy and the Soviet imperial economy, novel ideas for themselves instead o! respond ls compelled to· shift its cold war gears and ing to 'them entirely as the teachings o1 attempts to cast the image of multinational as though the two in essence were compara~ ble. From an economy that far exactly, 40 tradition dictated. traternity and brotherhood. The manner of his death ls shocking as y~ars has found it difficult to solve the ele The facts are that the Soviet Union ls a mentary problem of adequately feeding its well as Sbrrowful because it shows the pres "prison house of nations," a basic empir~ ence In· this country- of a mind that could which forms. the foundation of the expanded population, we have little to fear in terms of civilized economic progress. not dlffeT without hate1 and did not hesitate Soviet.Russian Empire, and that colonial ex Militarily; the U.S.S.R. is, of course, an im to deal death to anyone who disagreed. ploitation in this substrate empire is rife. posing power. But, its quantitative equip If this spirit of partisan hate is widespread The more we. concentrate on the true nature ment, furnished by its industrial technocracy in this country, let·us have determined cam of the U.S.S.R., the more Moscow ls com and cold war economy, is no guarantee of paigns to trample it out. A free country pelled to defend. its fals.e image of multi Its ultimate qualitative power. The military cannot"" govern Itself except by the exercise ·national coexistence, and the more we see history of Russia's Imperial force$ In this of friendly disagreement. -America must be the opportunities before us In the cold war. century alone fails to attest to such ultimate a land of open debate, not poisonous resent How all this came to be .what it is, is the clue power in the final showdown. ments living and gr,owing in secret. to an understanding of the last remaining The grand image induces timidity and fear The American people mourn John F. Ken .. major empire in the world. in intended victims. We are the prime tar nedy. "Their sympathy goes to his wife and Evidence on this vital score ls abundant. get of this projected Soviet Russian image. .children, his mother and father. · And so his When Khrushchev in July 1959, exploded It is an image that can be understood, de death .is as deeply felt by people who dis over the Captive Nations Week resolution, he flated, and tactfully destroyed. America's .agreed with. his political philooophy as by did so because, for the first time, an official victory in the cold war, with peace but to -those who ·agreed with it. That is the spirit act of our Government pierced the false ward Justice and freedom, necessitates that in which free people can govern themselves~ image of the U.S.S.R. In 1960 he appeared ·these things be done. We cannot repeat too .in the U.N., purposely to defiect growing at [From the Sun Times, Nov. 23, 1963] tention In this country on the imperio often Marx's own observation on the Russian Empire, now in the guise of the Soviet Un AMERICA WEEPS colonialism that pre-Vails in the U.S.S.R. by ion, '.'The only way . to deal with a pow-: stimulating debate on so-called Western im President Kennedy lies dead; a .n1artyr in perialism and colonialism. Down to this day, er like Russia is the fearless way." The par the ca.use of democ.ratic governm,ent. when pressure is exerted and the false image tial nuclear test ban treaty is not an ex His countrymen weep in sorrow and in of the U.S.S.R.-the global-appealing Potem pression of such fearlessness. The intensi anger. · · · kin Village--is_placed under critical scrutiny, fied cold war should induce it. The immensity a! the crime can .hardiy be Moscow takes to the defensive in an attempt grasped · m. these hours of confusion that to preserve Its image. · WitnesS' these ex THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN F. inevitably have followed the, assassination ·atnples, for ins.tance: (1) the series titled of. the chief of the most -powerful Nation in ·"The- 15 Soviet ·Republics, Today and Tomor KENNEDY: .the world. · row" (Soviet Booklets, London, 1959-60) that Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask The Nation ls left temporarily without a was ordered by Moscow for mass printing In ·unanimous· consent that the gentleman leader. Vice President Johnson will assume 1963- CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD-HOUSE 22829
the heavy burden .of th~ Presidellcy and. the · Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker,. . in market for sole leather and now new ma policies of the Nation will undergo no .im- view of the· wide publicity that has-been terials ar~ 'threat~ning the market for uppers minent change. But inevitably the assassi- given to the attack levied on certain for shoes, he said. . nation will change the course of history, not trade associations by the gentleman from A third major factor, Blumenthal said, is only in the Nation but in the world. foreign imports. Some 87 million pairs of And it should change the temper oi our Illinois [Mt. FINNEGAN], I felt that the shoes were imported into the United States ·times. At the moment the ·motive that information contained in an article the past year, an increase of about· 9,000 per lurked in the twisted mind of the killer is which appeared in the Rockford Morn cent within a decade, he stated. · not, of course, known: · .ing Star on Wednesday, November 20, He said he personally favors the present But the deed in Pallas was different only 1963, should be of interest to the Mem U.S. policy under which there are "almost in degree of importance from such acts of bers of this House. Not only should the no restrictions" on such imports. However, violence as ~he bombing of houses of wor- information furnished by Mr: Shepar~ Blumenthal declared, foreign countries ship, racial murders and only last month, Blumenthal, of Rockford, Ill., the presi should reciprocate by eliminating some of in the same city, the degrading assault on dent of the National Hide Association, their "restrictive .quotas and destructive U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. taritfs" on u.s.-made leather products. . All of these acts of violence are the work be of interest, but I further believe that · That's why ·the National Hide Association of persons wbo, fundamentally, · do not be- his remarks are ·entitled to re-ceive the and other segments of the U.S. leather in.:. lieve in a democratic government operating same attention as that accorded the dustry participated in the "Week of Leather,'' under a rule of law. charges that have been made. Among the world's largest show, in Paris during Sep The preachers and whisperers of hate and the niost important maxims of our tember, Blumenthal explained. µ1sunity, who undermine confidence in our Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence are those Blumenthal said he would welcome the in Government and our public o11lcials by ir- that relate to a presumption of inno- vestigation of counterpart fund spending responsible attacks· on their sanity and d f th ·t f b · FINNEGAN said is underway. loyalty, plant· the motives in- the heads of cence an o e necess1 Yo emg proven . "Our hands are clean," Blumenthal said. those who pull the triggers and toss the guilty. In view . of Mr. Blumenthal's .Blumenthal said he has been queationed by bombs. prominent position in the industry that investigators concerning what he understOOd Those who impugn the motives of our na- he represents, I think that it would be to be waste in government. · He added he felt tional leaders, who defy the courts and dis- highly Unfair· to 'decide this issue before ·FINNEGAN'S attack was an example of "strik tort the operations of the United Nations all of the evidence is in. ing back" over recent Criticism. Of wasteful would not themselves do violence. . But they . I am personally greatly impressed by spending during congressional junkets over engender the kind of hate that must have the statistics furnished by Mr. Blumen sea. been in the ey~s that lined up ¥r· Kennedy's thal with .respect to the .hide industry. ,he~ in the crosshairs. of a rifie sight. yes- It seems to me that a very strong case ~rday. , MRS.· JOHN F. KENNEDY The awful loss that hate visited upon the indeed can be made for the proper and Mr. ALBERT. Mr: Speaker, I ask Nation and the world should inspire all judicious employment of counterpart Americans to join together in this hour of funds which might otherwise remain unanimous consent that the gentleman .shock and mourning in a reexamination of frozen in a sterile and unproductive ac from Macyland [Mr. FALLON] may extend the ~ational ponscience. count to promote an important domestic his remarks at this point in the RECORD The right of dissent, the exercise . of free industry. and mclude extraneous matter. speech, the criticism of the .President and . Therefore, Mr. Speaker, under the The_ SPEAKER. Is there 9bjection other .public o11lcials high and low, must not leave which I have obtained to extend to the request or the gentleman from corrode lnto .sullen xebelllon that .breeds Oklahoma? violence. All Americans, those who agree my remarks in the R~CORD and to include with their government's policies and those extraneous matter, I wish to include with There was no objection. who disagree, must stand together on this these remarks the statements of Mr. Mr. FALLON. Mr. Speaker, my col fundame~tal and. demonstrate this Unity. by Blumenthal as contained in the article leagues from Maryland, Congressman action as well as words. The purveyors of which I have referred to above. EDWARD A. GARMATZ and Congressman hate must acknowledge the danger they The article follows: SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, join me in asking create. CLAIMS AMERICAN COUNTERPART F'uNDS SAVE unanimous consent that -the editorial on When we speak of the purveyors of hate. we INDUSTRIES Mrs. Kennedy, appearing in the Balti obviously are not speaking of the President's 24, regular political opposition,. .those persons Best possible use of U.S. counterpart more Sun, under date of November in his own party and in the Republican funds frozen in foreign countries is in pro 1963, be printed in the nECORD. Her Party who had disagreed with many of his moting a greater fl.ow of American-made magnificent courage is, we feel, .an elo".' :views and policies and who also grieve for goods into those countries, Shepard Blu quent.tribute to her .husband. ... Mr. Kennedy. We are speaking of the ex- menthal, Rockford, 'president of the National MRs ~ KENNEDY tremists from both parties who go beyond the Hide Association, said Tuesday. At a time when women far from the scene pale in their opposition and criticism. . The association was one of the trade asso- were fatnting, ·and men ·were overcom·e· with The Nation owes a great debt to Mr. Ken- elations listed by ~presentative EDWARD grief, Mrs. John F. ·Kennedy ·in Dallas mus.:. nedy. who gave his life in the service of his FINNEGAN, Democrat, of Illinois, in an at;. tered the -inner strength to stand by her country as surely as a soldier on the front- tack on what he termed "misuse and w.aste'.' husband to the end; brave, compo~ed and line. And to Mrs. xennedy and the Presi- of U.S. counterpart funds. in every fiber and gesture a President's wife. dent's family the American people offer their · Morning Star Political Editor Joe Fisher, Bearing the horrible stains of her shattering hearts. The personal tragedy of an assassi- reporting froin Washington Monday, dis experience, she stood with Lyndon Johnson nation seldom has been as heartbreakingly closed that staff investigators of the House as he t()()k the oath' as her husband's suc evident as in the scene that followed the Government Operl:l,tions Committee. ~ave ce1SSOr and then faced. reentry of· washing;,. shooting; Mrs. Kennedy holding the Presi- been assigned to determine whether a con ton, so suddenly no longer her city, and a dent's head in her lap and weeping, "Oh, no." gressional hearing on the use of counterpart funds is warranted. reunion with the children for whom the No, it should never have happened in Defendin'g his own and other trade groups, ~ation 's loss always would remain so incon America. That it did must weigh heavily-on Blumenthal credited this aid with Sa.ving one solably personal. America's conscience. And if.it brings a re- awakening and a real change in the teinper industry, the . U.S. rendering industry. The Nation and world may take pride in of our times Mr. Kennedy wm not have died Europe now is a big market for U.S. tallow Mrs. Kennedy: 'even as they· extend to her in vain. This is a prayer in which all Amer- and other pi'Ocl:ucts of that industry, pri their halting expressions of sympathy. No icans can_join. . marily because of the Qovernment-supported matter how seemingly secure our ·existence promotional program, especially in Italy, he inay be, there can come those moments that said. The National Renderers• ' Association demand the raw courage and self-discipline was one of the groups cited by FINNEGAN. ot pioneer.a ~ -Gentl~~ retfring a.nd finely COUNTERPART FUNDS As to the plight ·of the hide industry, drawn, Mrs. Kennedy.has demonstrated once Blumenthal said: again that reservoir of strength that from Mr. "MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask . time immemorial has nurtured our faith, our unanimous consent that the gentleman "There are such tremendous surpluses of hides in the United States, action must be convictions, our determination to face the from Illinois [Mr. ANDERSON] may ex taken in the foreign fields." future fearlessly. - · · tenc~ his remarks at this point in the Hide prices are "off 40 percent" over the · -With lier husband deaci so &oon after the REcoRn arid include extraneous matter. past year alone, . he noted. Blumenthal deat~ of a child; wfth her other children be The SPEAKER. Is there objection pointed out one factor is that Americans are reaved, her home bestow~d upon a new Presi eating more and more beef and the slaughter· dent and, her futttte uncertain, npt for a mo to the request of the· gentleman from· is "going up and up." · · · ment did Mrs. Kennedy !alter 1n fulfilling Maryland? In addition, since World War II, synthetic the stern demands made uP<>n her. · Her There was no objection. substitutes have taken 75 percent of the strength is the Nation's and humanity's CIX--1437 22830 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE November 26 strength. We may share not only her or the authorization for appropriation and to By Mr. HE;R-LONG-: deal, but also her will to carry on as her modify th~ personnel secv,rity procedures for - H.R. 9225. A bill·to designate the ·author husband would have expected from her and contractor employees. ized Cross-Florida Barge .Canal as the "John from an of us. F. Kez;inedy Canal"; to the Committee on Public Works. ADJOURNMENT ByMr.MATrHEWS: . LEAVE OF ABSENCE H.R. 9226. A bill to designate the author ·· Mr.' ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I move ized Cross-Florida Barge Canal as the "John By unanimous consent, leave of ab that the House do now adjourn. F. Kennedy Canal"; to the Committee on sence was granted to: The motion was agreed to; accordingly Public Works. Mr. KING of New York (at the request the By Mr. FASCELL: of Mr. ARENDS), for the balance of this House adjourned until · tomorrow, H.R. 9227. A bill to designate the author week, on account of illnes8 in family. Wednesday, November 27, 1963, at 12 ized Cross-Florida Barge Canal as the "John 'o'clock noon. F. Kennedy Canal"; to the Committee on Mr. JENSEN, for 1 week, due to death in Public Works. family. By Mr. FUQUA: Mr. NELSEN (at the request of Mr. H.R. 9228. A bill to designate the author HALLECK), for today and tomorrow, on REPORTS OF COMMITTE;ES ON PUB~ ized Cross-Florida Barge Canal as the "John account of illness in family. LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS F; Kennedy Canal"; to the Committee on Under ·clause 2 of rule XIII, reports Public Works. By Mr. GIBBONS: of committees were delivered to the Clerk H.R. 9229. A bill to designate the author SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED for printing and reference to the proper ized Cross-Florida Barge Canal as the "John By unanimous consent, permission to calendar, as follows: F. Kennedy Canal"; to the Committee on address the House, following the legisla Mr. ROGERS of Texas: Committee on In Public Works. tive program and any special orders here terior and Insular Affairs. H.R. 130. A bill By Mr. PEPPER: tofore entered, was granted to Mr. to provide for the payment of compensation, H.R. 9230. A bill to designate the author ized Cross-Florida Barge Canal as the "John RoUDEBUSH, for 30 minutes, today, and inclu~ing severance damages, for rights-of way acquired by the United .States in con F. Kennedy Canal"; to the Committee ori to revise and extend his remarks and to nection with reclamation projects the con Public Works. include extraneous matter. struction of which commenced after Janu By Mr. ROOSEVELT: ary 1, ' 1961; with amendment (Rept. No. H.R. 9231. A blll authorizing the President 922). Referred to the Committee of the of the United States to award posthumously a Congressional Medal of Honor to John EXT~NSIO~ OF REMARKS Whole House on the State· of the Union. Mr. TEAGUE of Texas: Committee on Vet~ Fitzgerald Kennedy; to the Committee on By unanimous consent, permission to erans' Affairs. H.R. 6777. A bill to amend the Judiciary. extend remarks -in the CONGRESSIONAL section 712 of title 38 of the United States By Mr. SCHWEIKER: RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, Code to provide for waiver of premiums for H.R. 9232. A bill to provide for the greater was granted to: certafo. veterans holding national service life protection of the President and the Vice Mr. PELLY in two instances and to in insurance policies who become or have be President of the United States; to the Com come totally disabled before their 65th mittee on the Judiciary. clude extraneous matter. birthday; with amendment "(Rept. No. 923). By Mr. AYRES: . (The following Members 241. A blll to amend the Fair Labor of the United States, the head of any execu H. Res. 673. Resolution to authorize the Standards Act of 1988 by repealing the ex tive department, or a.ny Member of Congress Committee on Un-American Activities to emption for certain lumbering employees; t.o of the United States; to the Committee on conduct an investigation and study of the the Committee on Education a.nd Labor. the Judiciary. Fair Play for Duba Committee; to the Com Mr. MORSE: By Mr. WICKERSHAM: mittee on Rules. H.R. 9242. A b111 to prohibit interference H.R. 9247. A bill to amend title 10 of the with the free exercise of rellgion; to the Com United States Code to provide that every mittee on the Judiciary. appllcant for correction of his military rec PRIVATE BILLS By Mr. PELLY: ord shall be afforded an opportunity for a Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private H.R. 9243. A blll to repeal the cabaret tax; ·hearing, and to require the appearance of to the Committee on Ways and Means. certain members of the Armed Forces before bills were introduced and severally re By Mr. PEPPER: the boards for the correction of such records, f erred as follows: H.R. 9244. A bill authorizing the President and to amend title 28 of the United States By Mr. COHELAN: of the United States to award posthumously Code to provide for judicial review of the H.R. 9~48. A blll for the relief of Donald a Congressional Medal of Honor to John decisions of such boards; to the Committee Loo, also known as Loo Hong Mun; to the Fitzgerald Kennedy; to the Committee on on Armed Services. Committee on the Judiciary. the Judiciary. By Mr. CANNON: By Mr. FARBSTEIN: By Mr. RODINO: H.J. Res. 809. Joint resolution making con H.R. 9249. A blll for the relief of Giuseppe H.R. 9245. A bill authorizing the President tinuing appropriations for the fiscal year Milazzo, Felicia Milazzo and Ema.nuela. of the United States to award posthumously 1964, and for other purposes; to the Commit Milazzo; to the Committee on the Judiciary. a Congressional Medal of Honor to John tee on Appropriations. By Mr. HECHLER: Fitzgerald Kennedy; to the Committee 011 By Mr. MORSE: H.R. 9250. A bill for the relief of Que Ark the Judiciary. H.J. Res. 810. Joint resolution proposing an Chin; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. RYAN of New York: amendment to the Constitution of the By Mr. PELLY: . H.R. 9246. A bill to amend title 18 of the United States; to the Committee on the H.R. 9251. A bill for the relief of Lee Gen United States Code to make it a Federal Judiciary. Quon; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS
No Adjournment of Congress Until Pub Obviously, while Congress has delayed presence is a singularly heart-warming passage of legislation to continue these tribute to the cherished memory of a be· lic Laws 815 and 87 4 Are Extended loved American. laws, the school administrators have I am privileged, too, to welcome so many of counted on our -acting to·continue these my own countrymen: the distinguished Sec EXTENSION OF REMARKS programs and it certainly does not seem retary of State, the Honorable Dean Rusk, OJ' • right for us to close up shop and let the and you ladies and gentlemen who are here schools go on waiting. Extension of gathered.· · HON. THOMAS M. PELLY these two laws means better than $10 This is the only, place in the world, to my OF WASHINGTON million to my State of ·washington and knowledge, where a monument has been IN THE HOUSE-OF REPRESENTATIVES erected to mark the delivery of an address. to certain school districts these funds What remarkable power did these few Tuesday, November 26, 1963 are absolutely vital. words, spoken here a century ago, possess that they should become immortal? Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, there is Almost as we ask the question, we are considerable talk among Members of aware that they have drawn us here today. Congress and others about possible ad He Thought He Had Failed Certainly they cannot be separated from journment of Congress now and comfug this setting. back in January and finishing our job. · EXTENSION OF REMARKS They cannot be separated from the event Contrariwise, it seems to me advisable which gave rise to them. OF They cannot be separated from the ma.n .that Congress remain 1n session-if for who uttered them. nothing else than to unsnarl some of our HON. GEORGE A. GOODLING A boy visiting Gettysburg sees--as did boys important legislation. OF PENNSYLVANIA a century ago-the excitement and the glory I have 1n mind that closing down Con IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES of war. gress 1s not going·to cure such situations His father-like Lincoln-sees the tragedy. as the stalemate between the House and Tuesday, November 26, 1963 The boy thinks how much stronger the Senate over a vocational education bill Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker. yes Union ls because the battle was fought. The father thinks how much greater the which ls holding up enactment of other terday the entire civilized world paid a Nation might have 'been if the issues of the major education legislation. · final tribute to a fallen leader. Civil War could have been resolved by coun For example, Mr. Speaker. I see no It is ironic that 3 days prior to the day clls rather than cannons. justification for Members of Congress to of this tragic event several nations joined President Lincoln came to Gettysburg to go home untn Public Law 874 and Pub in a tribute to a leader who sufferc:!d a pay tribue to the fallen soldiers of the North. lic Law 815 have been extended. Im similar fate. · · He spoke, not of the victory, but the sacrifice. pacted area assistance has been going He stressed, not the valor, but the devotion. · Sunday, November 17, 1963, in the Stu He urged, not reprisal, but reunion. on since 1950 and continuation of these dent Union Building of Gettysburg Col-. Legend has it that he wrote his remarks on programs 1s vital to our educational sys lege, Gettysburg, Pa., marked the begin the back of an envelope while en route by tem. More than 4,000 local school dis ning of 3 days• activities commemorating train from Washington-as if, in an inspired tricts are unable to complete their budg the lOOth anniversary of the delivery of burst, they flowed from the stub of his pencil. ets and are in the dark about the number Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Whenever and however they were written, of teachers they can hire and the amount It appears :fitting that the addresses they were 'born out of the.sorrow and anguish -of salaries and other essential plailning. given on the occasion of this anniversary which had traced .their toll in the furrows of By delaying the legislation Congress ts his face. be recorded for posterity. They emerged from the long loneliness that putting our school administrators in an They follow in the order of delivery: almost impossible situation. ·was his--the long loneliness of command TEXT OF REMARKS BY LT. Gov. RAYMOND P. the long loneliness of the test to which a. As the House knows, impacted area SHAFEB dream, a hope, and an Ideal had been put. legislation "provides for Federal reim I deem it a.great honor to have been chosen Yet they had to be spoken, so that a broken bursement of costs to schools in localities to open these ceremonies commemorating nation might look to a brighter day. where Federal defense establishments the lOOth anniversary of the Gettysburg He felt that his address was a. failure. have placed a burden on local 'communi Address. . Using the language of the plowman, he ties and where such military establish On behalf of the Commonwealth of Penn told a friend it didn't scour. ments, unlike private industry, do not pay sylvania, I welcome the representatives of In his honest humility, he ha.d thought taxes for the support of these schools. France, Great Britain, and Italy. Their himseLf a failure. :He had tried to preserve