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ties are interfaced with the basic missions of the Coast Guard and cannot be 
completely divorced from the primary missions. 
Sincerely, 
JoHN A. VOLPE. 
P. H. TRIMBLE, 
Vice Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, 
Acting Commandant. 
Mr. Lennon. You mentioned the Bureau of Public Roads. The 
Bureau of Public Roads is under the Department of Transportation ? 
Mr. Brees. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Lennon. I am saying this to illustrate that there are some 
changes in view. Who is the director of the Bureau of Public Roads? 
Mr. Breas. Mr. Ralph Bartelsmeyer is. Mr. Francis Turner is the 
Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration. 
Mr. Lennon. That is under the Department of Transportation is it 
not? 
Mr. Brees. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Lennen. He was for how long the chief engineer of the Bureau 
of Public Roads, before the took the position that you now designated 
him as having? 
Mr. Brees. Mr. Turner? For a large number of years. 
Mr. Lennon. Thirty-two years? 
Mr. Brees. Yes, sir. I was going to say 30. 
Mr. Lennon. Under the new administration he is now what ? 
Mr. Bzces. Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration 
to which the Bureau of Public Roads reports. 
Mr. Lennon. Just about this time last year in a public speech he 
denounced in strong terms the action of one of the subcommittees on 
public works concerning legislation that would authorize trucks of 
substantial, and I repeat substantial, additional weight, wider trucks 
gia and longer trucks, and it concerned me because I believe he was 
right. 
I believe he was in a position from his long experience as the chief 
engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads for some 32 years. So I sat 
down and wrote him a letter asking would he recapitulate exactly 
what he said as he was quoted in the press. He sent it to me. I used it, 
T think rather effectively in some places. 
Now, much to my surprise in the last 214 weeks in his new capacity, 
in his elevated capacity he appears before the same subcommittee on 
public works and recants and says, “Whatever the Congress wants to 
do we will agree.” So you see how people do change. I wonder why. 
You know what I am talking about. 
Mr. Brces. I know what you are talking about; yes, sir, although 
I think he did qualify his statement. 
Mr. Lennon. He qualified it by saying, “But give us time, go ahead 
and pass the law, authorize extended length of trucks, authorize a 
substantial additional weight and additional width, but give us until 
1970 to test the bridges as to whether or not they will stand this addi- 
tional weight,” which last year he categorically and emphatically said 
they couldn’t stand. 
You go back and read the record. 
Now, let’s talk about the Coast Guarda little, Mr. Secretary. 
What is the basis for the Coast Guard being under the Department 
of Transportation ? It is related to transportation ? 
