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Mr. Cabell. Being an old dairyman, I'd like to clarify the analogy that the 

 gentleman used, and that is, the cow does not give milk. You have to take it away 

 from her. 



Mr. Goldwater. You still need that pull. 



As one step toward that leadership, the subcommittee sponsored a bill, 

 which was enacted into law, making the Secretary of Transportation 

 a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Council. 



When the NASA authorization bill reached the House floor on 

 April 23, 1970, Miller put his main stress on rounding up enough votes 

 to preserve the Shuttle against the attack led by Karth and Mosher. 

 As a result, in his long statement about the NASA program, this is 

 all he had to say about aeronautics: 



I will not go into the many details needed to explain the extremely good work 

 which is being performed by NASA in aeronautics and advanced research and tech- 

 nology. 



Once again, when the NASA bill reached the crucial negotiations with 

 the Senate, Miller as the leader of the House conferees did not appear 

 to attach as much importance to the increases in aeronautics as he did 

 other portions of the NASA legislation. Miller took the initiative to 

 give up some of the increases. As a result, the conference wrote 

 glowing words of support for all the extra work which NASA was 

 supposed to perform in aeronautics within the limits of the reduced 

 funding which made it very difficult to accomplish. 





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In 1971, Neil A. Armstrong as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, 

 was invited to give the Hechler subcommittee an informal breakfast briefing on recent de- 

 velopments in aeronautical research. From left, Hechler, Armstrong and Chairman Miller. 



