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Rodman cited the 196S subcommittee report on "managing the 

 environment" to make his point that the conscious technological 

 choices used by decisionmakers were really not improving the environ- 

 ment. Acting Chairman Brown evened things by observing: 



Dr. Rodman, this is one ot the tew times th.it I have seen our distinguished chair- 

 man of the subcommittee take umbrage with a witness, and, frankly, I didn't get the 

 same reaction .it all. 



But as Daddario pointed out in a letter to President Nixon early in 

 1970, the subcommittee's 1968 report did lead toward the National 

 Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the legislation requiring environ- 

 mental impact statements prior to governmental action in any held. 



SYMINGTON AND THE MISSOURI HEARINGS 



In the hearings in Webster Groves, Mo., Symington dazzled his 

 listeners with a series of apt quotations from Emerson, Tennyson, and 

 Rene Dubos, and delighted the hearing with William Wordsworth's 

 plaint against the industrial revolution: 



Enough of science and of art 



Close up these barren leaves 

 Come forth and bring with you a heart 



That watches and receives. 



Symington attempted to place the problem Rodman raised in perspec- 

 tive by observing: 



We realize that technology per se is not at fault. It is neutral, it merely answers 

 the question we put to it. 



In an address to the House in April, Daddario put it this way: 



Technology is simply the ability to applv knowledge. Its worth depends on how 

 men handle it. 



He described the 5-year effort, culminating in the Daddano-Mosher 

 bill to set up OTA, which he labeled "among the most important 

 long-range pieces of legislation to be introduced in modern times." 

 He added: 



And, at this point, Mr. Speaker, let me pay special tribute to the gentleman from 

 Ohio (Mr. Mosher), whose perception and constancy have been indispensable to the 

 progress which had been made in this held. 



In May and June 1970, the Daddario subcommittee had six days of 

 hearings on the Daddario-Mosher bill to establish the OTA. The sub- 

 committee stressed that by 1970 the long weeks of discussing "con- 

 cept and philosophy" were over, and the time had arrived to grapple 

 with the spccitics of legislation. Daddario in his opening statement also 

 reflected the philosophy of the early 1970s that the highest goal 

 was the quality of life as reflected in the environment, and the purpose 



