Senator INOUYE. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased that Secretary Resor will continue in this capacity. We in Hawaii are extremely pleased. Mr. RESOR. Thank you. The CHAIRMAN. Senator Brooke? Senator BROOKE. Mr. Chairman, in my 2 year's association with the Department of the Army, I have had an excellent relationship with Secretary Resor. I have no questions and I am just pleased that the President has seen fit to ask him to continue his services. Mr. RESOR. Thank you. The CHAIRMAN. Senator Goldwater? Senator GOLDWATER. I have no questions, Mr. Chairman. I jus want to compliment him on his good judgment in having stock in the Tucson Gas & Electric Co. Mr. RESOR. I am afraid we have already parted company. The CHAIRMAN. Senator Schweiker? Senator SCHWEIKER. No questions, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Do you wish to make any more comments, Mr. Secretary? Mr. KESOR. I Would just like to take this occasion to say how much I have appreciated the courtesy, the respect and the support this committee has given our needs in the Department of the Army as a whole and I am delighted to have the chance to continue to work with you. These last 4 years have been the most rewarding years of my life and I am delighted to get the chance to continue, particularly the chance to continue working with this committee. The CHAIRMAN. We are glad to hear you make those remarks and appreciate them very much. If you will make room there now. NOMINATION OF JOHN H. CHAFEE TO BE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY The CHAIRMAN. The next nominee is the Honorable John H. Chaffee. Governor, we are glad to have you here. I am going to put your biographical sketch in the record at this point. (The nomination reference and biographical data of Mr. Chafee follow :) NOMINATION REFERENCE AND REPORT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, Ordered, That the following nomination be referred to the Committee on Armed Services: John H. Chafee, of Rhode Island, to be Secretary of the Navy. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN H. CHAFEE John Hubbard Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 22 October 1922, and is a graduate of Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts. Following graduation from Yale University in 1947, he entered Harvard Law School and was graduated in 1950 in the top quarter of his class. His education was interrupted by his enlistment at the age of 19 in the U. S. Marine Corps as a Private in February 1942. The following August he was in combat with the original invasion forces on Guadalcanal. Ordered to the United States in November 1943, he entered Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, in June of 1944. Lieutenant Chafee departed for Guam in January 1945, and served with the Sixth Marine Division in the battle for Okinawa in April 1945. Four mouths later he was ordered to Tsing Tao, China, where he served until his release from active duty in December 1945. With the outbreak of the Korean War, he was recalled to active duty in March 1951 as a Captain and served as a Rifle Company Commander with the First Marine Division in Korea. Following his tour of duty in Korea, he served in the Marine Corps Legal Office at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, until his release from active duty in June of 1953. His active service with the Marine Corps totals nearly six years during two wars. After returning to Rhode Island, he commenced the practice of law in Prov idence and also became active in both civic and political affairs. In 1956 he was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly as a member of the House of Rep resentatives from the Third District and, following re-election in 1958 and 1960. he became the Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 1962. He was elected to that office, and served three terms as Governor, being re-elected in both 1964 and 1966. He has received honorary degrees from Brown University. Providence College, and the University of Rhode Island. He is on the Committee to Visit the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Chafee is married to the former Virginia Coates of Bayville, New York. They have five children: Zechariah, Lincoln, John, Georgia, and Quentin. The Chafee family currently resides in Warwick, Rhode Island. The CHAIRMAN. I have already told the committee that you served three terms as Governor of your home State, for which we all heartily congratulate you. Do you wish to make a statement, Governor? This is the first time that you have come in to this position. Before we hear you, we are glad to have Senator Pastore and Senator Pell here, as I said, and I am sure the committee would want me to call on them. Senator Pastore? STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN 0. PASTORE, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND Senator PASTORE, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I have a great and sincere personal pleasure in the senatorial privilege you accord me this morning of presenting to you the Secretary-designate of the U.S. Navy, the Honorable John H. Chafee of Rhode Island. Like myself, he is a native of Rhode Island and like myself, he is a former Governor of the State of Rhode Island. I present John Chafee as one whose friendship I value far beyond our differing political labels and I present him as an experienced administrator of the responsibilities of public office. He is of a family long and intensively dedicated to community well-being. His father is a very dear and personal friend whom I esteem very highly. The nominee's great-grandfather was a Governor of the State of Rhode Island. A great-uncle was also Governor and another greatuncle was a Member of this U.S. Senate. An uncle, Zechariah Chafee, is a well-revered professor in the annals of Harvard Law School. Mr. Chafee looks both to Yale University and to Harvard Law School as alma maters honors gained in the period 1945 to 1950. The years of 1942 to 1945 and the years of 1951 to 1953 found him in the uniform of the U.S. Marines. Guadalcanal, the Okinawa campaign, China service and the Korean campaign are duty chapters in the record of this Rhode Islander who enlisted as a private and earned the rank of captain. Rhode Island feels that the administration's choice for Secretary of the Navy is most appropriate, for Rhode Island is proud of its Navy history, reaching as far back as the first American admiral, Isaac Hopkins, and to Oliver Hazard Perry, a Rhode Island boy whose Lake Erie victory is immortalized on the wall of our Capitol. Ours is a State proud of its great naval bases-Newport, where was trained our martyred President, John F. Kennedy, and our Quonset Point, to which in 1942 Richard Nixon was called for service indoctrination. It is in such an atmosphere that the Chafee family was reared in the finest American tradition. The nominee is a distinguished attorney with a commitment to constitutional responsibility, a sense of law and order, of justice and compassion. He is a Government executive schooled in the art of working with a legislative arm of an opposite political majority. He knows of the heavy burdens of popular government. He is of necessity cost-conscious with an awareness of budget realities. John Chafee is first and last a civilian of independent thinking and of industrious application. I congratulate this administration and I congratulate our country on his selection. I am happy to commend him to my colleagues for confirmation. The CHAIRMAN. A very fine statement, Senator, for which we thank you. Senator Pell. STATEMENT OF HON. CLAIBORNE PELL, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND Senator PELL. Mr. Chairman, thank you and the members of this committee for letting me have this opportunity to support the nominee and to appear before your committee supporting the nomination of my fellow Rhode Islander, John Chafee. During the last 6 years, John Chafee has served our State as its Governor. Throughout this service, he enjoyed the respect, regard and affection of his fellow citizens. Although we are of different political parties, I have always found Governor Chafee to be able and with an immense ability to get on with people. Coming with the excellent background for the job as he does-his undergraduate years spent at Yale, law degree from Harvard, two tours of combat duty in the U.S. Marines in World War II and the Korean war, and always extending himself in every way on behalf of the community-I know that he will do a very fine job indeed. This, I believe, is an appointment for which President Nixon, our Nation and particularly our State can be proud and I am very glad to be here to support his nomination. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Senator, for a very fine statement. We appreciate it. May I read the pertinent parts of a letter from the nominee to the committee. It relates to his securities. As to his employment for the past 6 years, he tells us that he has been Governor of Rhode Island, and has had no other employment. "Some of the securities I own are of companies which do business with the Department of Defense. If confirmed, I shall sell those securities. They are listed on Attachment A. "The General Counsel of the Department of Defense has informed me that certain other securities which I own may continue to be held by me without incurring any possible conflict of interest as a result of such ownership. Attachment B is a list of these latter securities which, subject to any objection by your committee, I shall continue to hold. "It is my desire and intention to comply, fully and completely, with the letter and with the spirit of the laws, the regulations, and the proprieties relating to conflicts of interest." That is signed by Mr. Chafee. (The letter referred to follows:) Hon. JOHN STENNIS, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, JANUARY 21, 1969. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I am writing this letter to advise the Senate, through your Committee, of the nature of my private business affairs and the manner in which I intend to dispose them should I be confirmed by the Senate for appointment to the office of Secretary of the Navy. For the past six years, until my departure on January 7, 1969, I served fulltime in elective office in Rhode Island. I had no other employment relationship during that period, and I have formed none since. I have not been actively engaged, either by myself or in association with others, in the practice of law since 1962. Some of the securities I own are of companies which do business with the Department of Defense. If confirmed, I shall sell those securities. They are listed on Attachment A. The General Counsel of the Department of Defense has informed me that certain other securities which I own may continue to be held by me without incurring any possible conflict of interest as a result of such ownership. Attachment B is a list of these latter securities which, subject to any objection by your Committee, I shall continue to hold. It is my desire and intention to comply, fully and completely, with the letter and with the spirit of laws, the regulations, and the proprieties relating to conflicts of interest. Sincerely yours, JOHN H. CHAFEE. SECURITIES HELD IN COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO BE SOLD COMPANY Pan American World Airways E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. Kaiser Alum. & Chemical Corp. International Business Machines Standard Oil Co. of N.J. Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. SECURITIES HELD IN COMPANIES UNDERSTOOD NOT TO BE DOING BUSINESS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMPANY Outlet Co. Young Orchard Co. Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Chafee Land Co. Broad Street Investing Corp.1 The CHAIRMAN. Governor, do you have any statement you wish to make? 1 A widely held, diversified, mutual fund. STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN H. CHAFEE, NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. Chairman, I do not. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Senators from my State, Senator Pastore and Senator Pell, for their kindness in coming here and for their very generous statements. I do want to say how much I look forward to this position if you gentlemen should see fit to recommend my confirmation and the Senate should so approve. I look on it as a great challenge and one that I anticipate with enthusiasm and zest. I appreciate having the opportunity to make this statement now. The CHAIRMAN. I have some questions, Governor, from the committee as a whole, not just from the chairman. We have quite a problem in the limited time we have to really get into even the major part of this budget for each of the services and innumerable other matters. Do you agree that we have the right to expect from you and all other witnesses from the Navy full candor and forthright statements of all of the relevant facts to be brought out by you and the other witnesses rather than wait to be cross-examined as to certain points? Mr. CHAFEE. Yes, Mr. Chairman, I do feel that way. I think we have an obligation to come forward with the information that would be of interest to the committee. The CHAIRMAN. And you will not only do that yourself, but that will be your counsel and advice to all those in and out of uniform that are in the department? Mr. CHAFEE. Yes, Senator. The CHAIRMAN. We have the proposition of trying to get at matters that sometimes are matters of opinion. We need to know that the witnesses have freedom to go into matters fully and frankly, even though what they think might contradict in part a policy that has been decided on by the Department of Defense. We will encourage them to go into that, but there will be no instruction from you of any kind, I am sure, that would inhibit them from going in and giving their hard, firm opinion. I am talking particularly about military officers who are eminently qualified in their field. You would not prohibit, proscribe them in any way from giving their candid opinion? Mr. CHAFEE. No, sir: I would not. I think it would be proper if they would have brought this personal opinion to the attention of those they are working with as superiors, if you would, in advance. Then I would think it proper that, when they have presented their personal opinion, they so notify the committee that it is a personal opinion. And furthermore, that if it is a subject that has not been thoroughly explored, I think it would be only fitting if they pointed out some of the pros and cons on the position they are adopting. The CHAIRMAN. That is all right with the committee. We just want them to have the freedom of giving their rock-bottom opinion on these matters and they will not be trivial matters. They will be major matters from which we have to reach a decision. Mr. CHAFEE. Yes, sir. 24-139-69-3 |