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the development
of the weapon; President
Truman authorized
its
first wartime
use.
And Presidents
Eisenhower,
Kennedy
and
J'ohnson have lived daily with the overwhelming
responsibility
and
knowledge that only the President
can authorize
the use of this
dreadful
- as
Presidential yacht in 1945 and served in this capacity under
Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Placed
out of _commission in June 1953, the ship remained on reserve
status until 1962 when President John F. Kennedy made her
available
- as the "Committee
appear~ in a National Security Council Record of
Action of May 24, 1960.
indicated
to the "Principals",
The record stlltes that President Eisenhower
that he wanted "the advice of the Committee of Principals"
on a matter relating
to the test
- , to propose
an International
material
Eisenhower,
Agency.
They also
the potential
led,
destructive
contributions
in part,
the major
power of
of fissionable
to the presentation
and passage
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which p~ovided,
first
- issue between
Washington and Paris, and a
major underlying reason for the
• French campal,:n to .end )'.llil•
ita.ry "subordination" to NATO
and the United States. •. •
The differences go back to
1957',whell the Eisenhower Ad
nunistratlon decided
- , when I was serving in the
Senate, I appeared .at th"e request of our very able -·then Presi
dent, President
Eisenhower, before the General Assembly ot
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to
the supreme armament."
condition
was the appearance
of inter
in the supreme
and up to now excluded
and sufficient
is "the
according
oneself
here]
Eisenhower
entry
inferior
levels
to be called
115
a statement
of defense,
''What is at stake