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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410026-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: February 5, 1963
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 1999/09/1PC1 A3kD
UN ITEM `' PRESS FEBRUARY 5,, 1963
NTEI.NAT IONAL
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CONGRESSMAN BECKER AND
DEMOCRATIC WHIP BALE BOGGS OF LOUISIANA CLASHED ANGRILY ON THE HOUSE
FLOOR T1JAy OVER WHETHER THE COUNTRY WAS. IN GOOD OR BAD SHAPE..
BECKER SPARKED THE VERBAL BATTLE WHEN HE DELIVERED A -SHOUTING
SPEECH. .CHARGING THAT AMERICA WAS "IN THE WORST DOMESTIC MESS" EVER.
IN ADDITION, BECKER DECLARED THAT "OUR COUNTRY'S FOREIGN POLICY
HAS NEVER BEEN WORSE."
"WF ARE KICKING THE BRAINS OF OUR FRIENDS OUT," HE SAID, LISTING
CANADA,, GREAT BRITAIN, AND FRANCE AS EXAMPLES.
BOGGS JUMPED TO HIS FEET TO PROTEST, CALLING BECKER'S ATTACK ON
THE ADMINISTRATION "POLITICAL."
BOGGS SAID BECKER HAD "JUST ENGAGED IN AN EXAGGERATION TO USE A
VERY POLITE WAY TO DESCP IDS HIS REMARKS,"
PROFITS AS PROOF AMERICA WAS NOT IN AN ECONOMIC MESS, AS DECKER HAD
CHARGED.
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT IN HISTORY. HE ALSO POINTED TO RIGA CORPORATIO4
THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC W.iIP SAID THE COUNTRY NOW HAD THE HIGHEST
"I FRANKLY ADMIT THERE ARE SOME PROBLEMS IN OUR ECONOMY," BOGGS
SAID,, "BUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS FACING UP TO THEM QUITE MANFULLY."
AS FOR FOREIGN POLICY, BOGGS SAID HE HAD NEVER SEEN AN ADMIN-
ISTRA:TION SHOW "MORE RESTRAINT."
"TO SAY THAT WE HAVE ALIENATED OUR NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH AND
GREAT BRITAIN IS JUST NOT SO,p" HE TOLD BECKER.
"WE DON*T LIVE IN A WORLD THAT HAS EASY ANSWERS," BOGGS SAID,
ADDING. THAT HE HOPED FUTURE CONGRESSIONAL SPEECHES ON FOREIGN POLICY
COULD BE "OF A BIPARTISAN NATURE RATHER THAN A POLITICAL NATURE."
BECK`S[: SNAPPED BACK THAT HIS CRITICISM WAS NOT POLITICAL AT ALL,
HE SAID HF VADE iUS SPEECH OUT OF CONCERN "FOR MY COUNTRY."
BECKER SAID HE ALSO HAD LISTENED FOR 10 PEALS WHILE BOGGS MADE
POLITICAL ATTACKS AUAINST THE REPUBLICANS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR.
"YOU SHOULD BE THE LAST ONE TO ACCUSE SOMEONF OF THIS," BECKER
DECLARED.
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