160 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 8_ to such office; to the Committee on Armed steps to promote the idea of a nuclear patrol 600. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon Services. about the borders of Communist China to Park, Fla., relative to legislation to require By Mr. VAN PELT: prevent nuclear warheads from entering electronic eyes. at all entrances to the U.S. H.R. 9600. A bill for the relief of Christos Communist China; to the Committee on Capitol for security reasons; to the Commit­ Panagiotopoulos; to the Committee on the Foreign Affairs. tee on House Administration. Judiciary. 598. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon 601. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon Park, Fla., relative to alleged connections be­ Park, Fla., requesting that the Joint Com­ tween the CIA and the executed Bulgarian mittee on Printing have placed in the CoN­ spy Ivan Assen Georgiev; to the Committee GRESSIONAL RECORD Zip code numbers relating PETITIONS, ETC. on Foreign Affairs. to Congress; to the Committee on House Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions 599. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon Administration. Park, Fla., requesting that the Joint Com­ 602. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon and papers we.re laid on the Clerk's desk mittee on Printing attempt to change the Park, Fla., relative to abolishing the so-called and referred as follows: spelling in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of seniority rule in determining the committee 597. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Henry "madam" to a more appropriate "madame"; chairman in the House of Representatives; Stoner, Avon Park, Fla., relative to taking to the Committee on House Administration. to the Committee on Rules. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS National Cultural Center real memorial to him and a mark of stature are not read1ly encountered and honor to his wonderful widow. he will indeed be hard to replace. EXTENSION OF REMARKS This Congress must approve a suitable One of our cherished privileges was OF memorial for the late President and ap­ that of service with Mr. BAKER'S son-in­ propriate adequate funds for it. It must law, the Honorable William C. Wampler, HON. JOSEPH W. MARTIN, JR. be located in Washington, D.C., the city who was here with us in the 83d Congress. OF MASSACHUSETTS which was so dear to his heart and in During that period we came to appre­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which he did so much for humanity. ciate the fine traditions of the Baker If we approve this bill today, we · will family, not only through the father but Wednesday, January 8, 1964 forestall some less worthy memorial li:;t.ter. also through the daughter, and our Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. We will assure that what funds are to be hearts go out to those who suffer in this Speaker, we consider today a bill to name appropriated will be spent usefully iii a bereavement. Mrs. Dague joins with me the proposed National Cultural Center in great national endeavor. We will be in a .Prayerful petition that the family memory of the late President John F. paying timely and appropriate homage of our late colleague will find consola­ Kennedy. to our late and beloved President, John tion in the assurance that there are ..so I am honored to have filed this bill. F. Kennedy. many who mourn with them in this sad I did so because I believe in the high hour. purposes of the Cultural Center and be­ cause I believe this is the most fitting of the memorials proposed for the late and Howard H. Baker Hon. Howard H. Baker beloved leader from my home State of Massachusetts. EXTENSION OF REMARKS EXTENSION OF REMARKS I am honored, too, to have fl.led it be­ OF 01' cause I believe that such a memorial should be nonpartisan in origin and non­ HON. PAUL B. DAGUE HON. ROBERT E. JONES partisan in its adoption by this Congress. OF PENNSYLVANIA OF ALABAMA The memory of President Kennedy be­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES longs to the whole Nation; to the whole world; to all the people he sought to Wednesday, January 8, 1964 Wednesdqy, January 8, 1964 serve. ·Mr. DAGUE. Mr. Speaker, the year Mr. JONES of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, Someday this Cultural Center will be that is gone-the 1st session of the 88th it is with a heavy heart that I join my a source of pride to every American. It Congress-has been the most gruelling colleagues in mourning the sudden pass­ will be a cultural stimulus to the Nation, in my 17 years in the House and the ing of HOWARD H. BAKER of Huntsville, and it will be a home for the arts in the frustrations, the disappointments, and Tenn. The House has lost a Member, Nation's Capital. the unrelenting pressures to which we whose personal charm and magnetism Ever since the dawn of Christianity, have been subjected have resulted in all made him fl.rm friends on each side of nations have been proud of their cultural too many of our colleagues being called the aisle. He merited and had the re­ progress. We have considered ourselves to their eternal rest. Perhaps, too, the spect and affection of everyone in the one of the foremost, yet, in some respects, fact that we are the constant targets of Congress. we have lagged behind foreign nations those who want only to make capital out HOWARD BAKER was a legislator and a in the support that we have given to the of Congress resistance to bad legislation public servant who not only was an ex­ fine arts. We must be as anxious to lead has been a prime reason for the fa talities emplar of the best tradit~ons of the Con­ in this endeavor as we are in any other. that marked last year's legislative path. gress but enhanced them by his service The late Pr·esident Kennedy and his re­ Today we mourn the passing of a dis­ here. A man of firm convictions and ·markable wife, Jacqueline, made a con­ tinguished and dedicated colleague who principles he had that rare quality of spicuous contribution to the elevation of was a tower of strength on our Ways and , being able to disagree without being dis­ · our taste for the fine arts. Music and Means Committee where he lent his not agreeable, of vigorous opposition without poetry and painting received recognition inconsiderable talents to the reporting offense .and a candid honesty which in the Kennedy administration far be- · of good legislation or, which is equally added to the admiration and respect we yond any that those arts had received in important, to withholding immature had for him. prior years. Both of them possessed measures that could only add to the In coming to the House, HOWARD artistic good taste which all good Amer­ socialistic menace which is bearing BAKER brought vast experience in hu­ icans have envied and appreciated. This down upon us. HOWARD BAKER was a man relations and public service which good taste gave their administration a man who recognized a basic commitment helped make him such a valuable coun­ class that was good for the country and to represent the interests of his constitu­ sel on the Ways and Means Committee its people. I know that John F. Kennedy ents but he also accepted the larger man­ and in the daily deliberations of the would be proud to have this Cultural date stemming from national welfare House itself. Before coming to the Con­ Center bear ·his name. This can be a as a whole. Good men of this man's gress, he long had been acknowledged as 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 161 a leader and thinker in the affairs of found our Philadelphia friend ready and This is the demnttarized zone, the line of Tennessee and an outstanding member of willing to lend me a hand. ground con tact between the opposing sides the bar, with a reputation that was not It was my sad privilege to join in the at the moment of cease fire, which now sep­ arates the Republic of Korea from the Com­ bounded by State lines. He was almost sacred rites observed in his passing and munist north. Inside this no man's land as widely known and respected in my I could not help being impressed, as one nothing moves except the ceaseless wind, and own State of Alabama as he was in Ten­ of a different denomination, by the dig­ the silence is oppressive. There are no bricks nessee. He came well equipped to serve nity and solemnity of the requiems in­ ·and mortar here, but this is a wall, unseen here because of his service in the Ten­ toned in his behalf. And I am sure that but hostile, and there are no openings in it nessee Legislature, as an attorney gen­ in his place of quiet rest beyond the sun­ even for Christmas. eral, a judge, and had a keen interest and set Bill has been pleased to observe that In Berlin there is at least some contact be­ knowledge of national and international he has had a place in my humble if in­ tween East and West, a sense of communica­ tion with those on the other side. People affairs because of his repeated elections eloquent prayers. do pass through the wall, and there is · no as a delegate to national Republican con­ This departed friend left a loving wife . readily discernible feeling of deep enmity in ventions. and devoted children who will not quick­ the air.