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anguishing within a very short time between the genuine and the phony are 

 pronounced. * * * Mr. Daddario never lost a bill on the floor of the House for which 

 he was responsible as manager. No mean trick. * * * Mr. Daddario tends to be a politi- 

 cal liberal. He has been a lifelong Democrat. By and large, his leanings have been on 

 the liberal side, yet always leavened with common sense. During his term in the House 

 he worked equally well with conservatives. *** During my service with Mr. Daddario 

 I found him to have a remarkable memory and almost uncanny ability to keep many 

 balls in the air at the same time without dropping any of them. He is a thoughtful, 

 philosophical man, tough-minded but always willing to listen. There is never any 

 doubt as to who is boss in a situation where Mr. Daddario has been placed in charge. 



PHILIP B. YEAGER 



Yeager himself had been a very productive staff director for the 

 Manned Space Flight Subcommittee since its organization when Miller 

 became committee chairman, and Teague subcommittee chairman. By 

 the time the new Subcommittee on Science, Research and Development 

 was formed, James E. Wilson had come aboard and was assigned 

 immediately to the Manned Space Flight Subcommittee. This made it 

 easier for Daddario to persuade both Miller and Teague that for his 

 new committee to succeed, it would need Yeager as chief of staff. 



It was a fortunate choice, not only because Daddario and Yeager 

 shared a mutual respect, but also because of Yeager's indefatigable 

 energy, facile writing ability, and talent for organization. A graduate 

 of the University of Arizona and George Washington University Law 

 School, Yeager had served as Capitol Hill correspondent for a number 

 of newspapers. One of his freelance articles was noted by the then 

 Representative Kenneth B. Keating, who was serving on the House 

 Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration. Keating 

 asked Yeager to draft a speech for him. Then Yeager also approached 

 House Republican Whip Les Arends of Illinois, who was also a member 

 of the select committee. Yeager was soon hired by the select committee 

 in 1958, and helped draft NASA's organic act which Congress passed 

 that year. Initially, Yeager was by mutual consent the Republican staff 

 member who handled inquiries from Republican Congressmen, as well 

 as serving the entire committee. 



Yeager proved a tower of strength, not only to Daddario but also 

 to his successors who chaired the subcommittee and many other mem- 

 bers of the full committee where Yeager still serves in 1979, as "dean 

 of the staff," and General Counsel. 



Daddario let no grass grow under his feet when he received the new 

 assignment. He called a meeting for his new subcommittee on August 

 27 and outlined his plans to the charter members: 



