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were usually not overly responsive: Democrats like 

 Tarver of Georgia and Whitten of Mississippi, Republicans 

 like John Taber of New York (he was also chairman of the 

 full committee). Taber s right-hand man was Wigglesworth 

 of Massachusetts and he usually confined himself to 

 &quot;nit picking&quot; questions about the &quot;green sheets&quot; on which 

 were listed the number and grades of employees covered 

 by the estimates. 



Taber was a cantankerous gentleman, but he was 

 heavily outmatched in this respect by Cannon of Missouri, 

 longtime Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations 

 Committee. Cannon would sometimes come into a sub 

 committee hearing on Forest Service appropriations, take 

 over and virtually dismiss us with a disdainful wave 

 of his hand. 



For unfailing courtesy as chairman of the sub 

 committee the palm goes to Everett Dirkson, now a 

 senator. He was not particularly generous to us, but he 

 never heckled a witness, never cut anyone short. 

 Once when I was testifying he opened the hearing by 

 inviting any witness to tell the Committee wherein 

 it was doing wrong by a request. I accepted the 



