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.

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