Organizing for National Security: Hearings ... 86-2 to 87-1 ... Feb 23, 1960-Aug 24, 1961

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 1338 pages

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Page 751 - American relations; joint charter schools, including the National War College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces...
Page 690 - Affairs, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President of the United States, agreeable to the Constitution...
Page 6 - House as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such reports; (2) studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency...
Page 6 - ... technical, clerical, and other assistants and consultants: Provided, That the minority is authorized to select one person for appointment, and the person so...
Page 621 - The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House should feel free to call upon him to discuss, on or off the record, our foreign policy problems.
Page 837 - New Senate Office Building, Senator Henry M. Jackson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present : Senators Jackson, Muskie, Pell, Ribicoff, and Javits.
Page 61 - Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily * * *. Lenin was certainly right.
Page 6 - The committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee of the committee, is authorized to study or investigate — (A) the efficiency and economy of operations of all branches of the Government including the possible existence of fraud, misfeasance, malfeasance, collusion, mismanagement, incompetence, corruption, or unethical practices, waste, extravagance, conflicts of interest, and the improper expenditure of Government funds in transactions, contracts, and, activities of the Government...
Page 751 - The Secretary of the Army is the head of the Department of the Army. Subject to the direction, authority, and control of the President as Commander in Chief and of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army is responsible for and has the authority to conduct all affairs of the Department of the Army...
Page 318 - Dr. FISK. Thank you, Senator Jackson. Senator JACKSON. Our second and next witness will be Dr. Pickering. I want to say that this afternoon we will reconvene to hear our third witness of the day, Dr. Mettler. Dr. William H. Pickering is the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Pickering has been associated with the laboratory for the past 16 years. He has been responsible for the direction of critically important programs in the missile field. In...