THE EARLY MILLER YEARS 1Q1 



a lot of independent pools of power, or lack of coordination. Both 

 Brooks and Miller inherited their attitudes from the staff of the Armed 

 Services Committee, on which they had both served, and where there 

 was a very small professional staff which furnished support to both 

 majority and minority Members. 



Although Representative Martin was the ranking Republican, 

 Representative Fulton assumed most of the prerogatives of the senior 

 Republican and spearheaded an effort to obtain special staff for the 

 minority. Chairman Miller's customary response was that no com- 

 mittee in the Congress was less partisan in its attitudes than the 

 Science and Astronautics Committee. It is certainly true that the spirit 

 of bipartisanship dominated the Science Committee. On the other 

 hand, the minority, if properly staffed, would have been better equipped 

 to fight against political decisions such as the location of the Elec- 

 tronics Research Center. Eventually, the Science Committee was pro- 

 vided with minority staff", largely because of powerful forces outside 

 the committee itself. Once the Republican Members of the House 

 presented a united front and made the issue of a minority staff their 

 Holy Grail, the Science Committee bowed to the pressure and allo- 

 cated separate staff" for the minority. But it was a long and agonizing 

 fight, stubbornly and narrow-mindedly resisted by Chairman Miller 

 every step of the way. 



In addition to Staff Director Ducander, the following staff pro- 

 fessionals were on board during the early Miller years: 



Spencer M. Beresford, a lawyer and veteran of the select committee staff, who 

 left the Science Committee on June 30, 1962, and later joined NASA. 



W. H. Boone, a technically trained electrical engineer, with experience in 

 military applied research in the Department of Defense, who joined the staff August 6, 

 1962, and remained for ten years. 



John A. Carstarphen, Jr., a Louisiana lawyer recruited by Chairman Brooks, 

 who initially assisted on the Anfuso Subcommittee on Advanced Research and 

 Technology, and later became chief clerk of the committee, remaining throughout 

 the Miller years. 



Frank R. Hammill, Jr., a lawyer with Pentagon and FBI experience who joined 

 the committee February 29, I960, worked primarily for the Karth Subcommittee on 

 Space Science and Applications, and served until 1979 as counsel on the Science 

 and Technology Committee. 



Richard P. Hines, a writer and veteran of the select committee, who remained 

 with the Science Committee until March 31, 1973, working mainly on tracking and 

 data acquisition, and advanced research. 



Raymond Wilcove, another veteran of the select committee, a journalist, who 

 assisted in staffing the Advanced Research Subcommittee, and remained with the 

 Science Committee until March 10, 1963. 



Philip B. Yeager, counsel, also a veteran of the select committee staff, lawyer 

 and ]ournalist, who initially staffed the Manned Space Flight Subcommittee and the 



