Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss was nettled by the repeated charges of Democrats on the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Sum of the charges: the AEC spent so much time squabbling over the Dixon-Yates contract that it was neglecting its primary mission of weapons development and production...
Last week Strauss replied. Before New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the joint committee, could start questioning Strauss, some AEC aides entered the hearing room, struggling with five big boxes packed tight with documents. They set the boxes down behind Strauss. Another aide deposited six manila envelopes, tied in a neat packet, on the table beside Strauss...
Straightening the Records. Strauss indicated the five crammed boxes behind him. In them, he said, were all the papers received by the AEC commissioners from their staff since Jan. i, 1954, exclusive of those having to do with the Dixon-Yates contract. Then Strauss pointed to the six-inch packet on the table: the envelopes, he explained, contained everything the commissioners had read about Dixon-Yates. Said Strauss laconically: "I would now thank you for the opportunity you have accorded me to put the record straight...
Strauss also defended himself against a charge of a more personal nature. Last Feb. 1 he had told the joint committee that he could recall no AEC discussions of Dixon-Yates since November. On this, Strauss was challenged by AEC Democratic Commissioner Thomas E. Murray (who last year voted for Dixon-Yates, later changed his mind). The AEC, said Murray, had in fact discussed Dixon-Yates on Feb. 1, the very day that Strauss made his statement. Last week Strauss explained that he had been late for the AEC session on that day, had not engaged in the Dixon-Yates...
...scope by forcing into the area of partisan politics what should be a sober, nonpolitical issue of engineering and administrative procedure. In pursuance of this course they have put Chairman Strauss's integrity to the question on the flimsiest of pretexts. And they have encouraged their fellow Democrat, AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray, to engage in a vendetta with Strauss...