Nomination: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on Nomination of George M. Seignious II, of South Carolina, to be Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, January 25 and 26, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 141 pages |
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Page 68 - In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Page 135 - Act, an ultimate goal of the United States continues to be a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments ; in which the use of force has been subordinated to the rule of law; and in which international adjustments to a changing world are achieved peacefully.
Page 69 - Hence likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Page 73 - He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward for the most distinguished or lucrative stations candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.
Page 2 - This organization must have the capacity to provide the essential scientific, economic, political, military, psychological, and technological information upon which realistic arms control and disarmament policy must be based.
Page 6 - STATEMENT OF HON. ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Senator HOLLINGS. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Page 55 - He also functions as the principal adviser to the President and the Secretary of State on arms control and disarmament matters and, under the direction of the Secretary, has primary responsibility within the Government for such matters.
Page 61 - I would like permission to insert it in the record at this point. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, so ordered. (The matter referred to is as follows:) BRIEF OUTLINE OF BENEFITS AVAILABLE I.
Page 109 - United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency«. 168 SEC. 22. The Agency shall be headed by a Director, who shall serve as the principal adviser to the Secretary of State, the National Security Council, and the President on arms control and disarmament matters.
Page 28 - American force of over half a million men to fight in a war which is still going on. As with China it might have been different. The Pentagon Papers show that between October 1945 and February 1946 Ho Chi Minh addressed at least eight communications to the President of the United States or to the Secretary of State asking America to intervene for Vietnamese independence. Earlier, in the summer of 1945, Ho had asked that Vietnam be accorded "the same status as the Philippines," a period of tutelage...