CONTENTS Page 53 2 8 6683423081 Howard G. Gamser, New York, to be a member of the National Mediation Francis Keppel, Massachusetts, to be Commissioner of Education___ Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of George C. Trevorrow, Maryland, to be a member of the Federal Coal Mine NOMINATIONS FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1963 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Senator Lister Hill (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Hill (presiding), Morse, Yarborough, Clark, Burdick, and Pell. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will kindly come to order. Secretary Wirtz, will you come up, please, sir, with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, nominee to be Assistant Secretary of Labor. We are very happy to have you gentlemen here this morning, Secretary Wirtz, we know you have a Cabinet meeting in a few minutes. We would be happy to have you make any statement you see fit. STATEMENT OF HON. W. WILLARD WIRTZ, SECRETARY OF LABOR Secretary WIRTZ. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It is my very real pleasure to introduce to you this morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, Mr. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has been nominated by the President as Assistant Secretary of Labor. Mr. Moynihan has been working with the Department in other capacities for a period of the last year or 18 months. I should like to say, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, just very simply that on the basis of the working experience with Mr. Moynihan during this period, we look forward with the greatest anticipation to the strengthening of the Department of Labor as a result of the contributions, the continued, the increased contributions of Mr. Moynihan to this program. He brings to the contemplated functions of the Office a wealth of experience. It is an experience which includes an academic background, emphasis on various matters of importance in the field of labor relations. It includes experience of the most effective kind in the administration of the principles which seem to us important in this field. We look forward, I say, to the strengthening of the work of the Department as a result of Mr. Moynihan's participation in it and, of course, upon the action of the Senate. I should like to add in personal terms, if I may, and not presuming upon the occasion, that we look forward to the personal association with a man of such high caliber, such distinction, as Mr. Moynihan is. 1 I commend to you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, your favorable consideration of Mr. Moynihan in connection with the President's appointment. Thank you very much. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Secretary, we certainly appreciate your taking the time out of your very busy life-I know you are under compulsion now to get to a Cabinet meeting in a few minutes-to come here and give us the benefit of your judgment as to the nominee. We want to thank you for it. Are there any questions, gentlemen? Would you like to be excused at this time, sir? Secretary WIRTZ. I will be very grateful, sir, if I may. The CHAIRMAN. We are happy to have had you. Mr. Moynihan, we will be happy to have you make any statement you see fit as to your qualifications for the Assistant Secretary of Labor, your background, your experience. STATEMENT OF DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Mr. MOYNIHAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am sensible of the honor of appearing before this distinguished committee. Doing so is an occasion of much pride to me and my family. I am a resident of New York State. I was educated in the parochial and public schools of New York City. I attended the city university. In 1944, I joined the Navy. After 3 years of active duty, I returned to Tufts University from which I received a number of degrees. I later studied in England on a Fulbright fellowship. For the past 13 years I have worked at a number of jobs, all of them in government and public affairs on education. During the administration of Gov. Averell Harriman in New York State, I was successively assistant to the secretary to the Governor, assistant secretary, and acting seretary to the Governor. I later served on the faculty of the Maxwell Graduate School of Public Administration in Syracuse University. In 1960, Mr. Justice Goldberg, then Secretary Goldberg, asked me to serve as his special assistant. In 1961, I was appointed executive assistant to the Secretary. I am now before you as Assistant Secretary designate. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any questions? If not, we certainly want to thank you, sir, for your appearance this morning, Mr. Moynihan. We appreciate it very much. Mr. MOYNIHAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. (The biographical sketch of Mr. Moynihan follows:) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN He Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of New York City, was born March 16, 1927. attended the parochial and public schools of New York, the City College of New York, Middlebury College, and Tufts College. He received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, and was a Fulbright fellow at the London School of Economics. Mr. Moynihan began work at an early age. Upon graduation from high school in 1943 he was employed full or part time as a longshoreman until joining the Navy in July 1944. In 1952-53 he was a budget assistant with the U.S. Air Force in the United Kingdom. During 1954 he was director of public relations for the International Rescue Committee. From 1955 to 1958 he was successively assistant to the secretary, assistant In 1959 secretary, and acting secretary to Gov. Averell Harriman, of New York. and 1960 he was a member of the New York Tenure Commission. In 1961 he joined the U.S. Department of Labor as special assistant to the Secretary. In 1962 he was appointed executive assistant. Mr. Moynihan has taught at several universities. He is currently on leave of absence as assistant professor of political science at Syracuse University. From 1959 to 1961 he was director of the New York State government research project at Syracuse University, and was for some of that period a part-time instructor at the Cornell University School of Industrial Relations. He has published articles_ in various periodicals, including Commentary; Commonweal; International Road Safety and Traffic Review; Journal of the American Institute of Architects; Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science; Labor History; Motor Life; Public Administration Review; Reporter; and St. Jude's. His doctoral thesis was "The United States and the International Labor Organization, 1889-1934." Mr. Moynihan has been active in trade union and public affairs. In 1953 he was a member of the New York City Joint Board of the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee, ČIO. He was secretary of the public affairs committee of the New York State Democratic Committee from 1959 to 1960. He is a lieutenant (jg) in the U.S. Naval Reserve, with 3 years' active duty 1944-47. He is married to the former Elizabeth Brennan, and has three children, Timothy Patrick, Maura Russell, and John McCloskey. NOMINATION OF FRANCIS KEPPEL, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION The CHAIRMAN. Now, Mr. Francis Keppel, of Massachusetts, to be Commissioner of Education. Sir, we welcome you here. We are glad to have you, sir. We will be glad to have you make any statement you see fit now, sir, with reference to your qualifications for the position of Commissioner of Education. (Biographical sketch of Mr. Keppel follows:) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF FRANCIS KEPPEL U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel comes to the U.S. Office of Education from the position of dean of the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. He has served in that capacity since 1948. Since his appointment as Harvard's dean of the Graduate School of Education, Mr. Keppel has served in numerous advisory and consultant capacities on the national and international scene. He was a member of the 20th International Conference on Public Education at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1957, and served on an educational commission for the Nigerian Government in 1960. In the same year he served on the task force on education appointed by President Kennedy shortly after his election. Mr. Keppel has been a member of the Panel on Educational Research and Development of the President's Science Advisory Committee in which the U.S. Office of Education and the National Science Foundation assist jointly with plans and programs in areas of mutual concern. Since Mr. Keppel became dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, full-time enrollment has more than quadrupled, admissions applications have increased tenfold, the faculty has tripled in size, and endowment has more than doubled. Mr. Keppel was born April 16, 1916, in New York City where his father, the late Frederick P. Keppel, was dean of Columbia College and later president of the Carnegie Corp. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1938 and studied sculpture for a year at the American Academy in Rome. Mr. Keppel continued his studies while serving as an assistant dean at Harvard College from 1939 to 1941. During World War II, he was secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation (1941-44); he served in the U.S. Army, 1944-46, rising from private to first lieutenant. He then returned to Harvard where for the next 2 years he was assistant to the provost prior to being named dean of the Graduate School of Education. In the latter capacity, |