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Show ,. •• :, >I f !lTlffe/U.tat:r r, G3NA1' P/4/fI'I/ 12, &0 Sj OP I t(j(t7/3J7 J7;f1t::J rt3!VlrW -lIrNU/{K'j :;i. 11'6; MR. PRESIDENT: I shall vote Insular Affairs, to be Secretary of the I. It has been one I -- Committee in the I did as against. . I . today, on Interior and confirmation of Governor Walter J. Hickel Interior. said that should have wide a President latitude -- in the partioularly an'inooming members of selection of the J his Cabinet. As a general proposition, I support this view. this nominee does not . office. I do not personal nor now possess the needed question his integrity. ualifications But it for this My opposition is neieher . political, but is based solely on (uestions of the national [ I .. interest. j I / , Time \ r: and 1 I and again, Govern'or Hickel assured the Committee Insular Affairs that he will do what it wants done on Inteior in relation to y many decisions he would have to make . reas suring to a de gre e . . Secretary of the Interior. , I -tit1fItlib wh1-eh;;18 po lilt ]- -. ;Mwo c Thi sis as - But it re,i se _ 1 "e;1 li'b'b3::e ab ben bion: v e hI; f' reee First, BSiHiUMK a - . II member of the President's Cabinet is not free . , to do what a committee wants, even if he wishes to "do so With '. " " , the best will in the world. He is, irst of all, the President's man. . I I His deoisions 'must; be submitted to the Bureau of the Budget,' to the L Whie " I |
