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I thought I ought to make that somewhat clearer, lest there be 

 some misinterpretation of what I had earlier said. 



Mr. Bingham. Thank you for the clarification. I repeat that I 

 think your judgment on this is very, very significant and I think by 

 itself would affect the thinking of many Members of Congress on 

 that issue. 



Mr. Richardson. It has been very frustrating over all this time 

 to have to sit there in various public gatherings and so on, and to 

 hear people talk about how bad the treaty is and how good it would 

 be if we could only go forward on our own while being convinced 

 that we never would go forward on our own. It is only, as I said, 

 the change of circumstances — I won't repeat — that has in a sense 

 liberated me. 



Now, I am fighting for the treaty, for the survival of the treaty 

 for a whole set of reasons, and I don't think by saying this now, I 

 am prejudicing at all the chances of the United States to get 

 improvements in it, because the risk is now, as perceived by me as 

 well as by the rest of the world, that we may kick it over altogeth- 

 er. 



Chairman Zablocki. Well, in closing, let me comment, perhaps 

 you should consider changing your middle initial from L to J for 

 Job. 



Thank you very much. 



[Whereupon, at 5:05 p.m., the hearing was adjourned.] 



