SENATOR HENRY M. JACKSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL POLICY MACHINERY

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• Publication Date: April 24, 1960
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FROM THE OFFICE OF FOR RELEASE AM's
SENATOR HENRY M. JACKSON (D., WASH,) Sun.., Apr. 24, 1960
Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on
National Policy Machinery
CApitol 4-3121, Ext. 3481
Senator Henry M. Jackson, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee
on National Policy Machinery, today announced new public hearings in
the Subcommittees nonpartisan attack on "creaks and groans in the
machinery of national security planning. " The hearings, starting
Monday, April 25, will focus on gearing science and technology into
foreign and defense policy-making.
"Science and technology, " Jackson said, "exercise a new and
decisive influence on national power, prestige, and policy. The states-
man, the soldier, and the scientist must work together as never before.
The question is: t:~rhat is the right way to organize our government to
get the right scientific and technical programs at the right time?"
The hearings will feature testimony from witnesses Jackson
characterized as "seven scientific wise men. "
The schedule of the hearings is as follows:
MONDAY, APRIL 25: Dr Jame A. Perkins, Vice President
of the Carnegie Corporation and member of the Gaither Committee
appointed by President Eisenhower in 1957 to survey national security
problems.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26: Dr. James B. Fisk. President of Bell
Telephone Laboratories and Vice Chairman of the President's Science
Advisory Committee;; Dr William H. Pickering, Director of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and
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Dr. Ruben F. Mettler, Executive Vice President of Space Technology
Laboratories.
WEDNESDAY APRIL Z7: Dr
Herbert Yaric, Director of Defense
Research and Engineering, and formerly Director of the Livermore
Scientific Laboratory, University of California; and Dr Edward M.
Purcell, Professor of Physics at Harvard University, Nobel Prize
winner, and member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28: Dr. Eugene P. 'Tigner, Professor of
Mathematical Physics, Princeton University, and recipient of the
Enrico Fermi and Atoms for Peace awards.
All hearings will start at 10:00 a. m. in the Government Operations
Committee hearing room (3302 New Senate Office Building).
The Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery was established
last year for the purpose of making the first full review of the national
security process since the passage of the National Security Act of
1947. Further hearings will be scheduled throughout the session.
Serving with Jackson on the Subcommittee are Senators
Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Minn.), Edmund S. Muskie (D., Me.),
Karl E. Mundt (R., S. Dak . ), and Jacob K. Javits (R., N. Y.).
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