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Ihave all sorts of advisers, and one of the principal ones is iir, Nixon.
Sut any Vice President that I should have, even if I did not admire and
respect Mr, Nixon as I do, I would still keep him close in all these things,
because I think any “resident owes it to the country to have the next
individual in line o: succession completely aware of what is going on.
Stherwise, you have a break that is unconscionable and unnecessary.
Now when you talk about other people sharing a decision, how can they?
No one can, because then who is going to be responsible:
And because
Ihave been raised as an Army individual, and have used stafis, I think
you will find no staff has ever thought that they made a decision as to what
should be done or should not be done when I was a Comroander., And I don't
think anyone in the government will find, or you can find, anyone that would
say differently.
c. Lillian Levy, Science Gervice. Mr. Fresident, on iviay 13 you signed an
xiecutive Crder which allows cach interested Federal agency to fix its own
radiation safety standards and to exceed, if it deems nececsary, the
standards recommended by the -“eaeral Radiation Council.
Is there any reason why the Zxecutive Order did not provide that any
standards set by the individual agency which would exceed the radiation
safety levels recommended by your Council be sudject to review and
approval by the sederal Radiation Council which originally was established,
I believe, for the purpose of recommending radiation safety standards for
all agencies, so that the confusion and conflict -~- (laughter) -- within an
agency between keeping to standarcs of safety on the one hand, and
performing its functions in developing nuclear energy on the other, might be
elirainated?
(move laughter)
Tih PRESIDENT:
¥ ell, as a matter of fact, the questicnis sencible,
because lLassume, from the way you have read it, that there could be some
confusion here if any excess radiation were allow2¢ to escape and were not
repcrted to the proper people. If the order is de‘ective, Iwill try to find
out about it.
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{, vander Linden, Nashville Zanner, Sir, the Democrats apparently are
, going to let Congress go home without passing your oft-requested bill for
‘additional Federal Judgeships.
They are apparently turning down your offer
;to share these between the two Parties, in a garuble that maybe they can get
‘tli of them next year, I wonder, sir, do yeu thin': maybe they are playing
‘politics with this, or are you going to make another appeal to them before
they leave?
“ni SRESIDENT: They will have to rnake their own decision, whether they
“ve just ignoring the welfare o2 the United States and the adininistering of
yastice, or for any other reason. I don’t know what it is. But I think in
-very year that lL have been here, I have recommended these Judges.
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