Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Democrat Harry Truman named Republican Strauss to the brand-new Atomic Energy Commission under Chairman David Lilienthal. Strauss soon started finding himself on the minority end of 4-to-1 AEC decisions. Unable to persuade his fellow AEC commissioners to set up a system to detect Soviet atomic tests, he sidestepped them by taking his case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority...
...Truman announced his H-bomb decision, Lewis Strauss, his momentous fight won, resigned, to go back into the world of high finance as financial adviser to the Rockefellers. In June 1953, President Eisenhower tabbed Strauss (who had supported his longtime friend Bob Taft for the G.O.P. nomination) as AEC chairman...
Strauss's five years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission resounded with an endless rumble of controversy. The wounding wrangle that followed the suspension of Physicist Oppenheimer's security clearance made Lewis Strauss many an unforgiving enemy among the nation's scientists. Conservative Strauss angered champions of public power by insisting on confining AEC's nuclear-power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which...
...Final Break. As senior Democratic Senator and sometime chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, Clint Anderson was thrown into close contact with AEC Chairman Strauss, and that contact ripened into a beautiful hatred. Today, neither Strauss nor Anderson can give any specific cause for their feud; indeed, each swears that he went out of his way to be friendly to the other, only to be rebuffed...
Respectful Hearing. Beginning his tour in San Francisco. Symington was taken tightly in tow by Roger Kent. Northern California chairman of the State Central Committee and a devoted Brown follower. After speaking at a Fairmont Hotel luncheon-an affair arranged and run by Brown followers-Symington whisked off to Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that...