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Dr. Calhoun. I just want to clarify one point. I didn't think it fair 

 to sin^-le out the Department of the Interior in answer to your ques- 

 tion. I think your comment applies to all existing agencies. None of 

 them has a mission to develop ocean science and technology. 



Mr. Karth. Doctor, if you don't mind, I do not intend this to be 

 derogatory in any shape or form. We invite you experts to come here 

 and be specific on occasions, and I am inclined to think that you are 

 not. 



I wouldn't worry too much about hurting people's feelings if it 

 happens to come about in the normal course of an event in answer to 

 a question. 



I feel this committee has a great responsibility, and we would like to 

 have as much specificity as we can. 



Dr. Calhoun. We will be as specific as we can be. 



Mr. Pelly. Would the gentleman yield? 



Mr. Karth. I yield. 



Mr. Pelly. I think it would be very worthwhile to the committee for 

 you to address yourself to the case of the Department of the Interior. 

 We have had a very prominent witness. Captain Bauer, a former ad- 

 viser to this committee, who has testified here and seems in disagree- 

 ment with you on that score. I think therefore we should get down to 

 cases, 



Mr. Karth. If the chairman will permit, that is the only reason I 

 asked the question. 



Mr. Lennon. You have not yet been furnished a copy of Captain 

 Bauer's statement ? 



Dr. Calhoun. It was handed to me about 5 minutes before the hear- 

 ing started. 



Mr. Lennon. I shall request that you and your associates give some 

 thought, as much as you possibly can, to consideration of the things 

 that he has projected in that statement, and then I would ask you to 

 furnish for the record a statement signed by you and your three asso- 

 ciates here this morning in which you analyze the statement and take 

 a position. I think that is what we have to do, is to find out how you 

 experts feel about another expert's position on something where he 

 goes in an entirely different direction from which you are going. We 

 have asked him to do the same thing with respect to the position that 

 you have taken. 



Dr. Calhoun. We will be happy to look it over and advise you as to 

 what we think we can do. I believe as I go on I may touch on some of 

 these points. 



(The information follows:) 



The Texas A. & M. Univeesity System, 



College Station, Tex., June 21, 1969. 

 Hon. Alton A. Lennon, 

 U.S. House of Representatives, 

 Rayburn House Office Building, 

 Washington, D.O. 



My Dear Congressman Lennon : When I and other members of the Committee 

 on Oceanography testified before your 'Committee on the Commission Report 

 "Our Nation and the Sea," you asked us to comment in more detail on the Com- 

 mission's proposed government reorganization and on tlie statements on this 

 topic made by Mr. Paul Bauer. After much deliberation, I think that a response 

 to your request goes beyond the role of the Committee on Oceanography. 



