408 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON S( IEN< 1 AND TECHNOLOGY 



States had been pressing for cooperative agreements while the Soviet 

 Union always had a monolithic resistance. Mosher observed: 



I suggest probably lor accuracy's sake our record should show that this isn't so, 

 that there actually was considerable disagreement and suspicion, fully as much over 

 here, as we approached the summit 



The Symington hearings achieved their purpose as a good sound- 

 ing board for the nature of the cooperative agreements and their mean- 

 ing as a possible step toward better understanding. 



RICHARD T. HANNA 1973-74 



The third in the fast-changing series of chairmen of the Inter- 

 national Subcommittee was Representative Richard T. Hanna of 

 Anaheim, who represented California's conservative Orange County 

 and parts of Los Angeles County. Unfortunately, Congressman Hanna 

 will be better remembered as the central congressional figure in the 

 "Koreagate" scandal, for which he served time in Federal prison. His 

 reputation in the Congress was that of a very likable, hard-working, 

 .stimulating conversationalist, who could be counted on to spice floor 

 debates with interesting and telling anecdotes to make his points. A 

 liberal Democrat in a strongly conservative district, Hanna survived 

 a scries of squeaky victories through adroit use of the power of in- 

 cumbency. 



Born in Kemmerer, Wyo., he moved with his Mormon family to 

 Long Beach, Calif, in 1923. Hanna graduated from UCLA Law School, 

 and practiced law briefly before winning a special election to the 

 California Assembly in 1956, and then went on to win his first election 

 to the House of Representatives in 1962. He was one of the first modern 

 day Congressmen to grow an Ernest Hemingway beard. 



When Teague moved up to the chairmanship of the full committee 

 in 1973 and Symington advanced from the International Subcommittee 

 to take over Space Science and Applications, Hanna was next in the 

 seniority line and without too much fanfare he inherited the Interna- 

 tional Subcommittee. In the committee's organization meeting on 

 February 28, 1973, Hanna had this brief exchange with Chairman 

 Teague: 



Mr Hanna. Isn't it true that the Chair is inclined to he moving ahead with those 

 subcommittees which have authorization legislation upon which our appropriations 

 are predicated as taking priority over the other meetings!' 



Chairman Teague. That is true- 

 So Hanna bided his time until the NASA, N'SF, and other authoriz- 

 ing legislation wended its laborious wav through the hearings process. 



