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I say that is more of an observation. I, too, want to echo my bosses, 

 that I think that your statement has been great, and I think it is 

 making a real contribution to what we are trying to do. 



We did in our charter to the Commission tell them to come up with 

 a recommendation of an organization. We did not tell them we were 

 going to accept that organization. 



They have carried out their responsibilities, and we are now in the 

 early stages of trying to determine what is the best way to take care 

 of it. 



Now, Congressman Anderson in his references, and of course it is 

 in the Commission report, commented on the fact that there was not 

 a wholesale consolidation of all marine activities. 



By the same token, I think what they were saying there is that for 

 the purpose of getting along in the marine areas, that the effective 

 thing would be to pull the major things together, and let time and 

 future study develop other things, just as this meeting that Congress- 

 man Dingell is holding to establish an environmental council, and 

 his bill, which proposed to cover everything on earth and the atmos- 

 phere and space. 



So as I say, I have found your observations to be very stimulating, 

 and I am sure they will be very useful. 



Captain Bauer. Thank you. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Mr. Counsel. 



Are there any other questions of the gentleman ? 



Mr. ScHADEBERG. No, thank you, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. We thank you again, and we know that you are in 

 the area. We hope to have you back. We may get you engaged in a 

 dialog with these other witnesses. I think that might be a good way 

 to get the thing on the record. 



Let me announce that the hearings will be continued. The commit- 

 tee will sit tommorrow morning at 10 o'clock. We will have vrith us 

 Congressman Eogers C. B. Morton, a longtime member of our com- 

 mittee on Merchant Marine, who has always demonstrated a great 

 interest in the subject matter; Dr. Chalmer Kirkbride, who is vice 

 president of the National Security Industrial Association, and Adm. 

 E. 0. Stevens, U.S. Navy (retired) former oceanographer of the 

 Navy. 



I guess you were here the other day and understood that the 12 

 members of the Commission indicated their strong support of the 

 report in its entirety, that is, the 12 civilian members indicated their 

 strong support of the Commission report, and especially the insistence 

 that we move as rapidly as we possibly could in the implementation 

 of their recommendation on the Government structure or agency. 



That thought was shared and expressed here by a former Govern- 

 ment member of the Commission who is now not a part of the new 

 administration, and that was the former Under Secretary of the Navy, 

 Mr. Baird. 



With that, the committee stands in recess until tomorrow morning 

 at 10 o'clock. 



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