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of Alabama), a moderate southerner and highly respected in the House, 

 as chairman of the new select committee designed by Representative 

 Smith. 



FORMATION OF THE ELLIOTT COMMITTEE 



Daddario soon became the major spokesman in favor of creating a 

 new subcommittee of the Science and Astronautics Committee, not only 

 because it was needed, but in the hope that it might, in conjunction 

 with other research subcommittees, head off the rush to set up the 

 Elliott committee. Chairman Miller decided to move, and on Au- 

 gust 23, he announced the formation of a nine-member subcommittee 

 to be chaired by Daddario. On September 11, the Elliott resolution 

 came up for a rollcall vote. Miller expressed his faint praise mixed 

 with damns in these words on the House floor: 



Investigation into research and development has to begin someplace, and perhaps 

 this is as good a place as any. * * * I am certain the Committee on Science and Astro- 

 nautics will cooperate with the new committee, but it will protect its own interests 

 and will fight against any duplication of effort in those areas in which the House of 

 Representatives has given it statutory jurisdiction. 



The resolution was passed, 336 to 0, because this was a kind of mother- 

 hood issue that was difficult to vote against. But it was significant that 

 three powerful subcommittee chairmen of the Science Committee — 

 Teague, Karth, and Daddario — did not vote, and neither did one of the 

 high-ranking Republicans on the new Daddario subcommittee — 

 Representative Charles A. Mosher of Ohio. 



Out of this somewhat foggy atmosphere, Daddario emerged as a 

 real leader. Fifth-ranked member of the full committee, Daddario was a 

 charter member of the science and astronautics group. He had already 

 played an active role as an expert in the life sciences, and had won 

 a good reputation as a fair and thorough pilot of the Subcommittee on 

 Patents and Inventions. 



"I talked to George Miller and to Tiger," Daddario recalls. "I 

 talked to both of them about the importance of broadening out the 

 committee jurisdiction. They were both very willing to listen (and) as 

 we talked about it, the ordinary course of events built up some require- 

 ments about what ought to be done." Daddario was convinced that the 

 time for talk was over, and the time for action was at hand. 



The relationship between Miller and Daddario was always very 

 warm and close. They shared mutual interests, socially as well as 

 intellectually. One day, after he became chairman, at an executive 

 session of the committee in room 214-B of the Longworth Building, 

 Miller, as was his custom, was spinning an account of some of his 

 early background and reminiscences. He remarked that his father was 

 Irish and his grandmother was Italian, and then related some of the 



