862 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Japan, Sweden, and France, as well as the American Ambassador to 

 Austria, Galen L. Stone. As the meeting was getting underway with 

 appropriate introductions, Teague and Dr. Hall had the following 

 interchange: 



Mr. Teague. Doctor, do you think you can be objective to us or not? 



Dr. Hall. Objective? 



Mr. Teague. Yes. 



Dr. Hall. Sir, I will be objective and balanced. * * * 



Mr. Teague. I didn't say "you"; I said the rest of you. 



Dr. Hall. If they are not, I'll be the first man to curb the passion, as it were. 



At one point in the discussion, Teague asked: 



Did you people have an input, do you think, on President Carter's announce ment? 

 Did the Carter Administration consider what your organization thinks and what 

 you are trying to do? 



Ambassador Stone answered : 



I would say that the answer is generally "yes" — not in every detail, but there 

 was a definite impact on the program of the present Administration as a result of 

 consultations with the International Atomic Energy Agency. 



But a few minutes later, when Myers posed the same question, 

 Dr. Hall had this to say: 



Could I make a short answer? A great deal of the President's policy was news to us. 

 STRATEGY AND THE RETURN FLIGHT 



As the committee members and staff flew home from their Euro- 

 pean trip, a considerable amount of time was spent devising plans for 

 the June 7 committee hearing. Teague and Wydler, along with Dugan 

 of the staff began to map out their strategy. Wydler concluded that 

 he would attack the administration policy directly. On the other hand, 

 Teague decided he would sit back and listen to both sides, but he had 

 little doubt as to how he would vote. 



FLOWERS LEANS TOWARD SUPPORT OF THE CRBR 



The Flowers subcommittee opened four intensive days of its 

 promised hearings on Clinch River on June 7. In his opening statement, 

 Flowers mixed very objective language with inferences on how he 

 stood on the issue. He stated: 



These hearings are meant to provide a forum for clear presentation of the under- 

 lying issues for, at the moment, it is the task of this Subcommittee to shape a program 

 which will provide the best technical base for whatever nuclear energy or nonpro- 

 liferation policy is chosen. 



The questions posed at the start of the hearings tended to indi- 

 cate the trend of Flowers' thinking: 



