Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were right, in our opinion, Mr. President, in deciding that TVA ought not be permitted to expand farther beyond its natural boundaries at general taxpayer expense; that AEC should buy its additional electricity requirements from privately built steam plants which paid interest on investment and taxes on profits. But in our view, the AEC has been pitched into the role of "power broker" for TVA. The AEC has much more important things to do. It should be able to buy directly all the power it needs for its own vital work. The contract should go to the lowest competent bidder...
...AEC POLITICAL LABELS A DANGEROUS TREND...
DAVID E. LILIENTHAL, former AEC chairman, in a letter to the New York Times...
...important matters, such as the verdict in the Oppenheimer case or the current issue over the Dixon-Yates power contract, the conflicting views of the commissioners have been reported as if the AEC were a bipartisan body, organized on political lines, or even as an arm of the Administration in power. For example: Chairman Strauss is now commonly identified in the press as "a Republican member" in contrast with Dr. Smyth, Mr. Zuckert and Mr. Murray, who were described as "the Democratic members...
Congress in 1946 established the AEC as a nonpartisan, not as a bipartisan body. It was to be nonpolitical, not bipolitical. In fact, on this first commission there were three men who in private life had been active and influential Republicans. If the country and the Congress intend that the affairs entrusted to the AEC be administered on a political basis, i.e., be part of the Eisenhower and succeeding Administrations, the issue should be faced frankly and the law changed. We should not continue to drift into so momentous a change...