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...Committee, "that career foreign-service officers nominated for ambassadorial posts have some qualifications. There is, however, no such presumption that noncareer nominees are qualified. The burden on noncareer people is to prove to the committee that they are qualified." Arkansas' Fulbright was talking to young (33) Ogden Rogers Reid, former publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fulbright had every intention of using "Brownie" Reid to prove his argument that noncareer ambassadorial nominees must show that they have "some special unusual qualities" to justify confirmation. He notably...
Chairman Fulbright opened last week's hearings on the Reid nomination with the announcement that he had "15 or 20 minutes of questions." He then proceeded to grill Reid for 5½ hours. Asked Fulbright: "Tell the committee where you had your formal education." Reid cleared his throat, said he had been formally educated at Yale...
Several Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also got to squabbling among themselves at a hearing on the nominations of C. Douglas Dillon to be chief assistant to the secretary of state, and Ogden R. Reid to be ambassador to Israel...
...Reid, Dillon Appointments Stymied...
...Blackmer, Douglas M. Cain, Jr., Benjamin R. Neilson, Lawrence B. Ekpebu, Langley C. Keyes, Robert R. Little, and John C. Provine; from Winthrop House, Michael W. Christian Arthur S. Cahn Samuel A. Halaby, Michael B. Donohue, Konard A. Ulbrich, Harold J. Keohane, Robert T. David, and William G. Reid. The remaining ushers are charles W. Maynes from Claverly Hall, Harvey L. Ozer and Alan P. Pollard, both from Wigglesworth Hall, Donald P. Quinn and Francis J. Culhane from Cambridge, and Lawrence C. Browne from Dedham...