CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION CASE, FRANCIS - REPUBLICAN - SENATOR FORM SOUTH DAKOTA

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• Publication Date: January 18, 1962
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January 18,-1962
Congressional Information
Name: Case, Francis ? Republican - Senator from South Dakota
Home: Custer, South Dakota
Born: In Iowa
Marital Staute: to Myrle Graves in 1926 - two children
Education:
Dakota Wesleyan University (B.A. and LL.D.);' Northwestern
University (M.A.)
Profession: Rancher; editor
Experience: Ranch in Black Hills. Former newspaper editor and publisher.
Elected to House of Representatives from ;2d District in 1936
served 7 consecutive terms. While a member of the House he
was active in behalf of appropriations to implement 70-group
AF.
In 1950 elected to US Senate; reelected In 1956 for term
ending 1963.
Military: U.S. Marines WW I
Member:
American Legion; Methodist Church; Masons; Elks; Rotary; Acadia;
Sigma Delta Chi; Pi Kappa Delta; Delta Sigma Rho..
Armed Services (Subcommittees: Land Reentry Rights; National
Stockpile and Naval Petroleum Reserves)
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Public Works (Subcommittees: Public Road;; Flood Control)
Ex Officio: DOD Subcommittee, Subcommittee on Military
Construction ? both of Senate Appropriations Committee
Bases: Ellsworth.AFB (Titan and Minuteman Sites)
Remarks: Interested in AF matters. Considers himself responsible for
development.of Rapid City AFB. Meticulous - great interest.
in minute details. Votes in favor of military pay increases.
As former. Chairman of the Military Construction Subcommittee
and senior Republican !amber - knows and demonstrates deep
interest in all portions of the military construction programs.
Extremely interested in cloud modification, desalinization of
water.
In 1959 during floor debate of the Military Construction
Authorization bill (HR 5674) referred to Senator Stennis-
comments re: capability of bombers standing off hundreds of
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males from target and lobbing in missiles m said this is one of the mos
significant developments in whole defense picture. If we can do that,
a1so do likewise .m that it was this contemplation of that
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possibility which led Subcommittee members to have serious questions about
efficacy of so-called point defense and even some doubts about area
defense - that is, a bomber placed 500 miles away can send its missiles
into the target, then a defense system with 80 or 200 miles ranges are
relatively useless m? that is why the Subcommittee put in the 'road-
block' against the Nike-Hercules program as originally presented.
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B-70 -- his June 17, 1960 Newsletter: believes recent events have reduces
dependability of some of our overseas bases. said he supports moves to increase
our self-reliance capability, notably with the B-70 bomber and an aircraft
carrier ?- a fast, movable base. (Con~oRecord February 89 1960 Page 1971
Culture personnally testified in behalf of his bill providing for a.
National Academy of Culture - believes glory of a nation is celebrated and
preserved to posterity by its cultural expressions. (CongoReeord May 5 Y'agJ)
Ax ? Academy -m on debate of funds for, expressed concern about money
t_nxpended for .bF Academy. Senate adopted his amendment barring contracts by AF
in excess of $25,000 for adding to grounds or constructing or improving ani
structures or facilities in connection with the Academy (later he asked
conferees to delete the provision and an amendment on military housing and
extension of Capehart housing which would expire midnight, June 30, 1959)
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Ja.lt Water pm discussed our salt polluted water - said its a national
defense problem particularly to AF which is building a network of under ground
Atlas and Titan rockets to help solve its water problem the AF has signed
,,up Ionic, Inc. to work on water desalting projects. (CongeRecord Januar .
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Nike-Zeus during hearings of Military Construction Authorization
"I was just to say that it is evident that there is in the country today very
active movements from various sources to press for intensifying and expediting
this whole Nike-Zeus program. Personally, I am still of the school that the
best defense is a good offense, a super offense. o a it would be helpful to
tje committee if, sometime, we could have a classified presentation of the
whole Nike-Zeus matter." (Page 234)
_Secrets said American defense secrets were being lost in other ways t'r.ex.X
Pentagon announcements and 'leaks'. One is by "trusting too much the accred.ittJ
military representatives of some of our allies." (Wash. Post May 11 s196.1)
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B-70 m? during hearings on S. 18 2authorization for appropriations for
procurement of missiles, aircraft, etc. said he has been one of those who thought
that the B?70 program should go ahead. (Sec. McNamara answered that it was not
essential, that as a weapon of non-nuclear destruction it would be too expensive
per unit, that it had no commercial application etc.) Son. Case said: "Well,
if that is true, I would be inclined to agree, perhaps, we should not try to
get into production with it, but merely try to keep up thei.development" (Pages
59-60). He also said that if he were setting up a budget he would concentrate
in two fields: having a complete answer to conventional capability and having
a complete offensive capability in the strategic area, would not only put money
on purely defensive operations. Later during AF presentation, he asked for
comments on the questions and answers of Sec. McNamara. Be asked particularly
about the $1.4 billion to be saved by a stay of one-year, the possible development
of another aircraft, etc. Then he asked "Would you prefer to see some of the
money used for the more rapid development of the B-70 or have the money deployed
as you have it in the budget? Gen. White replied there was nothing in the
budget that was not essential --"It is my contention from where I sit, from my
own limited view, that this weapons system is important enough to put more money
into it." (P 394) Sen. Case had Skybolt explained to him and then he said:
"And if you want to maintain a Skybolt capability that would warrant the investment
we put in Skybolt it would seem to me that we ought to take some steps to insure
an adequate number of B?52's to carry that."
Joint Chiefs oo was flabbergasted that reputation of the military services
of the US could be laid on the line 1~y persons not in the military establishment.
(reference to Cuban invasion). Said it's also his opinion the CIA -should be
limited to collecting and evaluating information and should not be making foreign
policy. Said that policy should be left to the President and to Congress.
(US News & World Reoort9 May 299 1961)
Military Housing mm during floor debate on Military Construction Authorization
said there is a tendency on the part of those from the Military Establishment
who testify to ask for a maximum number of housing units. "If the Budget Bureau
found it desirable to place some ceiling upon these units, it is not exactly good
practice for the Members of Congress . . fi to insist that their individual
Judgments are correct as to how many houses should be built on a station in
my. State for .example." (Con .Record Ma 1 61 Pa +* 70 E~
Hurricanes am in his Judgment "nothing that is being done today is, more
Important than research in the field of atmospheric physics, and particularly the
modification of clouds." Said: 'General White has testified before the Armed
Services Committee that nothing exceeds in possible importance the modification
of weather from a national defense standpoint.,'; (Cong.Record July L421961
P 11678)
U,-70 -- during Military-Procurement Authorization hearings he and Sec.
McNamara discussed this airplane ? flexibility,, costs, commercial adaptation, etc.
Finally, the Senator said: "Well, if that is true, I would be inclined to agree
that, perhaps, we should not try to get into production with it, but merely
try to keep up the development.
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He asked Gen. White if it could carry Skybolt but was told plane is not
,designed to do so. Sen. Symington said it could carry Hound Dog but Gen.
White said to do so it would restrict the plane to subsonic operations.
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Case said "I think whichever answer you give to any of the questions,
Senator Saltonstail?s point ought not be lost sight of, and that is with the
ISkybolt not coming in until about the last 3 or 4 years of your present prospect
for effective B-52BS that we ought to give consideration to extending the
effective run of B-5219" (Page 338)
Later, he quoted from Mr. McNamara?s testimony on B-70s that it would be
more vulnerable than underground hardened missiles and that it does not lend
itself to airborne alert wings; that at low-altitude attack it must fly at
subsonic speeds, and many,.if not most, of its attacks would have to be at
low altitude. Gen. White said he does not agree with that premise. Said it
was contrary to his philosophy on it. Also, he does not think we would use the
B=a 70 for low altitude,- and that a mach 3 vehicle with the countermeasures, aboard
is going to be a formidable weapon against any defensive system I can foresee.
(Pages 390-391)
Strikes mo explained his bill S. 2401 m provide the President with adequate
legal authority to deal with those work stoppages that he considers'to constitue
a threat to our national security. Reference to strikes at missile bases.
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