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had been mayor of Dallas at the time of President Kennedy's assas- 

 sination in 1963, was a likeable team player who served on Teague's 

 Manned Space Flight Subcommittee as well as the Science, Research 

 and Development Subcommittee. Miller realized that Symington, 

 former Chief of Protocol at the White House, fluent in French, and 

 every inch an internationalist — even to the extent of worrying about 

 the international implications of letting Congress order the President 

 to place the American flag and none other on the Moon— was the logi- 

 cal choice to succeed Fuqua. 



On December 8, 1971, "Duke" lined up the pieces of the jigsaw 

 puzzle and wrote this memorandum to Chairman Miller: 



You asked that I submit a memorandum on the Subcommittee appointments. 

 Enclosed herewith is a list of subcommittees with the recommended changes pencilled 

 in. These recommendations are in accordance with our conversation of yesterday 

 morning. Naturally, I have done nothing on the Republican side, and as soon as you 

 have made your decisions we can send them to Mr. Mosher for his selections. Keep 

 in mind that the Committee is two members short, one majority member to replace 

 Mr. Karth and one minority member to replace Mr. Fulton. I imagine these assign- 

 ments will be made after the second session convenes. 



Please remember that in order to place Mr. Symington in seniority for the 

 chairmanship of the Subcommittee on International Cooperation in Science and 

 Space you will have to pass over Mr. Cabell. You said you would talk to him about 

 this, since he is one of our best Members in attendance and Committee work and I 

 am sure you would agree that we would not want him offended in any way. Also, 

 I think you will want to talk to Mr. Fuqua since he is being changed from the Inter- 

 national Cooperation Subcommittee up to the NASA Oversight. You will remember 

 I told you yesterday that he got the impression he was being appointed to a new 

 Subcommittee on Applications, which I think you agreed was not necessary inasmuch 

 as they would have only one line item to consider and both Space Science and Appli- 

 cations have been handled by one subcommittee with no difficulty. 



Please let me know when you have made your decisions on this matter and I 

 will have the new appointments typed up so that they can be sent to Mr. Mosher 

 in order for him to make his selections. 



Symington was an extremely busy man in January 1972, preparing 

 for and shouldering the big responsibility of moderating the Panel on 

 Science and Technology devoted to his favorite subject: Earth re- 

 sources. So when Chairman Miller got some of the top-ranking com- 

 mittee members together to announce his decisions — which was the 

 way things were done in those days — Symington had a conflict, and 

 couldn't make it. This prompted Ducander to write Symington a 

 note stating: 



It has occurred to me that you were not present on Tuesday morning when the 

 Chairman met with Ranking Members of the committee and perhaps have not been 

 informed that at that time he appointed you as Chairman of the Subcommittee on 

 International Cooperation in Science and Space. 



