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for which he was the spokesman—and of course I appreciate the fact 
that neither he nor Dr. White or the Assistant Secretary of the In- 
terior who were members of the Commission participated in writing 
the report related to the Government structure and that was proper, 
but he sat before this committee and said—since he left the former 
administration—as an individual: 
I give my unqualified support to the recommendations of the Commission re- 
garding the Government structure and also the Government commission. 
That is something for us to relate to; isn’t it? 
Dr. DuBriwcr. Yes; certainly. 
Mr. Lennon. I don’t want to be and I am not going to be critical. 
T was a little concerned about a speech recently made by the Assistant 
Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Paul W. Cherington, and I may yet 
ask him to appear before this committee. 
You deferred to the administration with respect to making a cate- 
gorical, flat statement with respect to the governmental structure. You 
deferred. Do you think Mr. Cherington was courteous enough to the 
administration to defer to the administration when in this recent 
speech he castigated the Commission report so far as it related to the 
Department of Transportation as it affected the Coast Guard? 
I say, frankly, I was not happy with the Secretary of Transporta- 
tion’s public utterance on this subject some time ago. He didn’t wait 
until even the President sent the letter to the Ash Commission on May 
19. He spoke out and said, “No.” That is human nature. It is the same 
all over the world. It is inherently selfish and because of the human 
nature we have to live with it and accept it. 
No agency or department wants to lose anything that it has ever 
attained. 
I was disappointed that in adhering to tradition you let the ad- 
ministration speak officially but the assistant Secretary of Transporta- 
tion or even the Secretary did not await the administration, but that is 
because they had the Coast Guard in the agency and had to protect 
their own. 
You say on page 12, on line 7, with respect to the programs that have 
been recommended by the National Marine Science Council at the 
press conference of the Vice President : 
“At an appropriate time legislative proposals will be submitted to 
the Congress to establish policy objectives for the development of 
coastal areas,” et cetera. 
When is that “appropriate time” in point of time? 
Dr. DuBrincr. Well, as soon as we can possibly get them together. 
As I said to Mr. Mosher, I don’t know what the schedule is on that. 
Tn fact, I think the schedule has not been established yet. 
Mr. Lennon. Based on the experience we have had with the Ash 
Commission I just wonder what point of time we are talking about. 
Dr. DuBrincr. This is our legislative proposals for this particular 
coastal zone problem. This ought to be much easier to bring to you than 
the Ash Commission study. 
Mr. Lennon. The reason I asked this question, sir, is that you know 
or you may not know, that next week the committee is having convened 
in Washington a symposium, forum, or conference in which all the 
coastal States and all the lake States have been invited to send repre- 
sentatives to Washington to see how the recommendations of the Com- 
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