JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 148
• Publication Date: February 5, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Monday - 5 February 1973
3. I I During a conversation today,'Jim Woolsey,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, said that:
a. Chairman Stennis continues to surprise his doctors at
the rate of his improvement and is sending messages to the Hill and
asking for use of a phone to which the doctors have not yet agreed.
b. Defense witnesses will be ready to begin testimony on
procurement authorization by the end of the month, by which time
Stennis, if he continues to improve, will probably designate Senator
Symington to convene the Committee to receive their testimony and
conduct other routine matters such as nominations. In this way Com-
mittee votes on major issues can be deferred until the middle of May
by which time it is hoped Stennis will be well enough to resume the
chairmanship, but of course unexpected crises may occur in the
meantime.
c. Woolsey raised the Finney article: in the New York Times
with Rady Johnson, of Defense, who didn't seem to know anything
about it and suggested Woolsey talk to Fred Buzhardt,
d. Woolsey said Defense officials were meeting with the
Committee staff this week to explain the current situation regarding
MASF in Southeast Asia. Woolsey expects a major problem in this
regard, since Senator Fullbright will doubtless insist that all future
funding in Southeast Asia be under MAP (i. e. , under the jurisdiction
of Foreign Relations rather than Armed Services Committee) and Woolsey
believes that without the participation of Stennis it will be almost
impossible to turn back the Fulbright forces. If they succeed, Woolsey
predicts that Foreign Relations will impose severe "restrictions on any
Agency operations in Indochina.
e.. Regarding legislation to protect news sources, Woolsey
feels that something is very likely to pass this session but hopes Senator
Ervin, as C hairman of Government Operations, will apply "rule of
reason, ".striking a balance between the absolute protection enjoyed by
a lawyer-client relationship, and the lack of protection implicit in recent
court decisions. Woolsey understands that Ervin's approach is to provide
the courts with the authority to apply a common sense rule in each case
on the merits, an authority which apparently the courts haven't
previously thought they had.
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