re CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: of it. I know you won't. COMMISSIONER MURRAY: COMMISSIONER LIBBY: drafts, I am quite convinced Is this all tonight? How is it left? I guess there are going to be two COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I want to find out whether I am on public notice whether a statement is going to be made and when. CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: You are on this public notice. law the spokesman for the Commission. COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I am by That is right. CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: This happens to be a matter which is in the open. I could go out five minutes from now and make a statement, if I wished to, and be completely in the clear, without consulting anyway. I don't intend to do that, I never have. You had an opportunity to be consulted at the last one. You left the meeting. , COMMISSIONER MURRAY: CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: I did not have an opportunity. Let me finish. COMMISSIONER MURRAY: We sent for you, You did not send for me. CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: That is a direct lie. We sent for you and neither you nor your messenger returned to the meeting. idea. COMMISSIONER MURRAY: You did not send for me. It was not a Commission meeting. I had no CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: Mr, McCool, did you hear Mr. Hallinan told to notify Mr. Murray what we were discussing? COMMISSIONER MURRAY: discussing? CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: MR, McCOOL: That last part, what were you Did you hear it or not? I turned to Mr. Hallinan and suggested that Mr. Murray should be here for the discussion, COMMISSIONER MURRAY: CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: Does that clear up that point? Let me finish my statement. Furthermore, you knew that a statement was to be made by the President on the subject. COMMISSIONER MURRAY: No, CHATRMAN STRAUSS: Wait a moment. It was read to you in an executive session in my office, and the minutes show it. That is a fact in front of a stack of Bibles. - 40 -