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meeting is what happened on January 30, 1969, at the opening of the 

 91st Congress: 



Chairman Miller. Mr. Fulton, is there anything you would like to add? 



Mr. Fulton. Through several Congresses I have recommended that there be 

 some sort of a committee set up on International Cooperation in Space. There are 70 

 countries with which the United States now has space relations. We either have 

 NASA installations, university installations, we have treaties on the retrieval and 

 return of the astronauts and on damage. We have the treaty on the banning of the 

 orbiting of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in space. Likewise, 

 there is the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that the Chair- 

 man and I have been Advisers to for some years. 



I feel that we are getting so much into the international field that wc arc pretty 

 much trying to do it on a United States basis rather than an international approach, 

 so that I think we should emphasize that. Unless we do, it is going to be the military 

 uses of outer space that are going to have the great effect internationally. 



Chairman Miller. With regard to the international aspects of space, we are 

 quite conscious of them. Mr. Fulton, being a member of the Foreign Affairs Com- 

 mittee, is probably doubly conscious of it. 



Mr. Fulton. I don't want to lose the jurisdiction. 



Chairman Miller. I don't feel we will lose jurisdiction. 



Mr. Fulton. They are setting up a committee this year on Science and Space 

 under a United States Security Subcommittee which, of course, is largely military. 

 Now, we have the peaceful uses of outer space and I think we are just as important 

 as U.S. security inspection. 



Chairman Miller. I am sure of that. 



At this point in the proceedings, Chairman Miller launched into 

 a long soliloquy which was his usual custom when he sensed the 

 justice of a case being presented, yet did not want to take any action. 

 His 1969 homily went as follows: 



I don't want to bore the old Members and the new Members with a discussion 

 of this at the present time, but I am very happy with what has transpired. I don't 

 know, but I presume this year we will receive invitations for a number of the mem- 

 bers of the committee to go to the Air Show in Paris. I want to say this name is a 

 misnomer. This is one of the greatest gatherings of people in the field of astronautics 

 and aeronautics in the world. It takes place in Paris one year and London the next 

 year. Here is where you go to see what is developing. I don't know that we will be 

 able to take the whole committee, but we will try to take as many as want to go. It 

 is a very interesting thing and a place where you do sec what is transpiring in the 

 space program. 



(Quickly): Mr. Tcague? 



Mr. Teague. I have nothing, Mr. Chairman. 



Chairman Miller. How about you Mr. Karth? 



Mr. Karth. Nothing, Mr. Chairman. 



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 Whereupon, the subject was quickly dropped without any action. 



