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  • , with atomic explosives. M: In that regard, some of the leaders of the Atomic Energy Commission during the Eisenhower years, Mr. [Lewis] Strauss and later, Mr. [John] McCone were generally believed to be opposed to agreements with the Soviet Union banning
  • LBJ as Senator; Atomic Energy Control Bill; LBJ and space program; LBJ and foreign policy during 1950s; LBJ and Foreign Relations Committee; LBJ’s foreign policy; Atomic Energy Policy; Test Ban Treaty; Lewis Strauss; LBJ and JFK people; Dominican
  • to the Commission because both the Joint Committee and the Commission at that time were seeing eye-to-eye on problems. F: Along that line did you have much difficulty settling the Commission down after Lewis Strauss' departure? I know that Mr. Strauss created
  • : Anything on the Lewis Strauss nomination? C: Only in the most general kind of sense. This was one in which I think most of us Republicans rallied together and most Democrats the same way, for and against. The thing that sticks in my mind most about
  • Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil
  • , and I said that the day he finished with the lVllite House and I'll still figure that way for a long time to come. But he was a very smart, astute individual, and he knew what was good and what wasn't. We had gone through the battle of the Lewis
  • of Mr. Strauss to the AEC. B: Well, you're talking to the man that probably had more influence than anybody in the Senate in defeating Secretary Strauss. He had been nominated by President Eisenhower to be secretary of Commerce, and Lyndon Johnson