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trust the President to make the patriotic choice himself, without 

 being ordered by the Congress: 



The President quite properly has the authority CO deckle what he wants done 

 about this matter. 1 wonder what has been discovered suddenly that suggests the 

 President lacks what it takes to make this particular decision. Is he lacking in patrio- 

 tism so one cannot trust Ins decision about the space program? Is his devotion to the 

 flag underdeveloped? Has he been found embracing a Union Jack in secret or abusing 

 the memory of Betsy Ross? 



But Roudebush clinched the victory when he told his colleagues: 



I feel compelled to offer this amendment in view of the many proposals being 

 put forth which advocate that our spacecraft carry to the surface of the Moon the 

 Tinted Nations flag, the flags of other nations, or other emblems or articles symbolic 

 of international cooperation in space exploration. 



The Roudebush amendment was carried by an overwhelming chorus 

 of "ayes" on a voice vote. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE 



In the early years of the committee's existence, Chairman Brooks, 

 as has been noted, preferred to follow the practice of the Armed 

 Services Committee and designate subcommittees by numbers rather 

 than titles. During the brief period when he did allow the use of titles 

 Brooks was somewhat surprised with the vigor and enthusiasm ex- 

 hibited by that globe-trotting New Yorker, Congressman Anfuso, 

 who never let anyone forget that he chaired the "Subcommittee on 

 International Cooperation and Security." To Brooks, this was simply 

 "Subcommittee No. 3." Chairman Miller in 1962 assigned Anfuso to 

 chair the Subcommittee on Advanced Research and Technology, and 

 for the rest of the decade the concept of a separate subcommittee on 

 international scientific matters remained dormant. Whatever needed 

 to be handled on an international scale was referred to the Daddario 

 subcommittee. 



Fulton, who also served on the Foreign Affairs Committee and 

 was a frequent delegate to international conferences, agitated through- 

 out the 1960's for the establishment of a permanent subcommittee to 

 handle international cooperation. Although a strong internationalist 

 himself, Chairman Miller obdurately resisted all of Fulton's efforts- 

 even though the two men annually traveled together as congressional 

 advisers to the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. 

 Time after time in organization meetings of the committee at the 

 beginning of every Congress, Fulton would trot out his perennial 

 quartet which constituted his wish list: an international subcommit- 

 tee, an inspector general for NASA, minority staff, and use of boron in 

 launching rockets. Typical of the scene at a committee organization 



