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A. No; I cannot. I cannot. May I see the other voucher again, please?

Q. It would appear that that $300 voucher was for the purchase of an airline travel ticket in connection with your trip.

A. Well, of course, I don't remember this transaction but-yes, yes. For $355

Q. Could it be, Mr. Anderson, that you purchased your travel ticket to the west coast with your own funds and are claiming reimbursement on that particular voucher? I might suggest to you that the reason we asked the question is we have no travel ticket from the committee accounts, credit cards, reflecting that trip that you took there, and I am just suggesting that the $322 voucher was to reimburse you for the airline ticket. Do you recall purchasing an airline ticket from your own funds?

A. All I can say is I don't recall it. I could have done it. I might have. I know things are done in this way. I just don't remember this transaction.

Q. Well, in connection with your airline travel, was there ever a time that you didn't acquire the ticket through an airline credit card? A. I didn't always; yes, there have been such occasions; yes. But I don't remember that amount, although it may have happened. I don't remember spending that much money for a ticket.

Mr. HAYS. Off the record.

(Discussion off the record.)

Mr. HAYS. Can I ask you one other thing: Is this your signature? The WITNESS. They are both my signatures.

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. No question about the signatures?

A. Yes; that is right.

Mr. HAYS. If the invoice is attached, that is it, that explains it. The WITNESS. Well, that would be it, but I just don't remember that amount. But I made a great many trips last year and I justI don't remember all of those trips in detail. I do know that I did pay money out of my pocket.

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. We have only one substantial trip in 1965, that was AtlantaTallahassee, Tallahassee-Atlanta, Atlanta-District of Columbia, which you probably went down to Tallahassee and had to go through Atlanta. That is the way your routing was. The others were just New York and Washington.

A. Well, now-of course, you don't have an account of all of them because, for instance in the New England States, in September I traveled

Mr. DEVINE. If Congressman Hawkins and Congresswoman Mink made the same trip, they should be reflected?

The WITNESS. Yes; I was with them. I was the staffman on the tickets.

Mr. DICKINSON. Did you pay for them, their tickets, perchance? The WITNESS. That could have been it.

Mr. DICKINSON. That could be it.

The WITNESS. But I don't remember it. I do remember there was a lot of confusion as to the time we were going to leave, because

just before then the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was on the House floor and we were waiting to see what would happen with it and, of course, when the time came-it was the practice over there to issue the ticket within hours before you left. And so, of course, sometimes we had to do things very quickly.

Mr. DICKINSON. You don't remember-is it your recollection that you probably did buy their tickets?

The WITNESS. It could have happened, I don't remember, I don't remember. If your records indicate that those are the only trips that I made, then we haven't reported some that were made. Because I traveled, especially between September and October, I traveled to the Midwest, to Indiana, to Ohio

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. September of 1965?

A. Yes. I traveled to the New England States, to Boston, to Connecticut, to Rhode Island.

Q. I beg your pardon.

I was looking at the sheet of the travel for

which no subsistence was claimed.

A. I see, I see, I see.

Q. That is all.

A. I see.

Mr. HAYS. Yes, there are many other trips.

By Mr. O'Connor:

Q. Yes, there are many other trips. I see the Boston trip listed. A. Now, as for those trips which I am said to have made for which no subsistence was claimed, do you have the vouchers for those? Q. We have no vouchers.

A. You have no vouchers.

Q. Because no subsistence was claimed.

A. No; but whenever we made trips didn't we sign a voucher for the ticket?

Q. This is what we are asking you.
Mr. DICKINSON. Somebody did.
Mr. O'CONNOR. Somebody did.
The WITNESS. Apparently-

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. We have the six tickets

We have the six tickets

A. No, but I am talking about a different one.

Q. Yes.

A. Because I would recognize my signature.

May I see those?

Q. Well, your signature is not on those tickets. Those are the tickets that are made out by the airline office.

A. Oh, I see, I see.

Mr. HAYS. Mr. Jones.

Mr. JONES. I just want to inquire, did you have an airline credit card?

The WITNESs. No; I didn't.

Mr. JONES. You had to rely on somebody else in the committee getting your tickets?

The WITNESS. Yes; that is right. We applied to the chief clerk. Mr. HAYS. May I follow up on that?

And in that connection you have already testified that this one ticket which you were showed, marked "Dargans No. 2," was not your handwriting?

The WITNESS. That was not my handwriting.

Mr. HAYS. Therefore you did not make the trip in the shuttle? The WITNESS. It was not my handwriting.

Mr. HAYS. In order to get a shuttle ticket, it has to be gotten on the plane and somebody has to sign it?

The WITNESS. Yes, that is right.

Mr. HAYS. So would you say that you didn't make that trip? The WITNESS. I wouldn't say that. I would say that is not my handwriting.

Mr. HAYS. That would be pretty conclusive evidence that you didn't make the trip then, because if you had you would have signed it yourself.

The WITNESS. I know, but

By Mr. O'CoNNOR:

Q. All your various trips to New York, of what duration would they be?

A. Well, many would be just for 1 day, many would be for the weekend, many would be for 2 days perhaps, and so forth.

Mr. HAYS. Could we go back to this New York thing again. In addition to the fact that you have testified that isn't your signature, you have also testified that on that particular day you were on the

west coast.

The WITNESS. I was on the west coast.

Mr. HAYs. So you could pretty surely say, then, you didn't make the trip.

The WITNESS. I reckon you could. I was on the west coast, I remember being on the west coast, I remember it almost day by day, so I could not have made the trip.

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. Here is the duplicate of voucher No. 8045-is that the number? A. No, but with regard to these tickets, as a matter of practicewell, I remember on some occasions having signed a request. I don't know what it was called.

Mr. HAYS. T-4?

The WITNESS. Some record which would authorize me to-authorize the ticket to be issued.

By Mr. O'CoNNOR:

Q. I think what is of concern to us mainly, Mr. Anderson, is the apparent inconsistency in claiming subsistence. You didn't maintain a residence or an apartment in New York, did you?

A. Well, I had friends there and relatives. My brother is in New York. But I never remember having gone there and not claimed subsistence, but it could have happened.

Q. Taxis and travel to and from the airport, they are all legitimate

expenses.

A. Yes.

Q. The only thing we are endeavoring to clear up is whether or not you recall making any trip to New York and not claiming sub

sistence.

A. As a matter of habit, frankly, it mystifies me that 14 were made. For instance, I am not an independently wealthy person but I could have I am rather absentminded, I could have made a trip and not claimed subsistence, of course. I would have felt very bad about it when I found out, but it couldn't have been 14.

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Mr. HAYS. Fourteen trips all together in which_you_claimed no subsistence, not necessarily to New York, but to New York and/or other places. And you think it is unlikely that there could have been that many?

The WITNESS. Yes.

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. For instance this trip to Tallahassee, Fla., there is no subsistence voucher on that. Our audit is incomplete because we have not been able to verify the dates on it to this time, but there is an airline ticket, and it is among those, District of Columbia-Atlanta, Atlanta-Tallahassee, Tallahassee-Atlanta, Atlanta-District of Columbia. And the trip was started on April 23, 1965. And we don't have the date that it terminated.

Mr. HAYS. Do you ever recall going to Tallahassee, Fla.?
The WITNESS. Yes, I do.

Mr. HAYS. You did go there?

The WITNESS. Yes. Well, that trip was made.

By Mr. O'CONNOR:

Q. You recall the occasion for it, the reason?

A. Oh, yes. It was to look into it was a request partly of Florida A. & M. Čollege to look into the possibilities of a poverty program there.

Mr. HAYS. Did anyone go with you on that trip?

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Q. Do you recall it was of any particular duration, 1, 2, 3 days? A. I don't remember the length of time. Well, it could have—I think it was of short duration.

Q. I think you are right, because apparently the airline ticket office shows that it was used on April 22, which was your date out of Washington, and used April 23, Atlanta. But then there is no return apparently indicated. But these are bookkeeping problems that we have encountered all through this inquiry in connection with some of these airline tickets.

A. Well, let me say with regard to the

Q. But it seems that you would have

A. No; on that occasion I wouldn't have made claim for subsistence because my family home is Tallahassee, Fla.

Q. Oh, is it?

Q. Nobody on the staff of the Congressman ever requested your authority to use your name?

A. That is right.

Mr. O'CONNOR. I have no further questions.

Mr. TAYLER. I have another ticket.

Mr. HAYS. All right.

By Mr. TAYLER:

Q. Mrs. Harris, I am going to show you a transportation request for a shuttle flight between Washington and New York on Eastern Airlines, March 28, 1965, which is in the record as Dargans exhibit No. 3 and which purports to bear your signature in the upper leftWill you tell me whether that is your signature.

hand corner.

A. No; it is not.

Q. Did you make the trip indicated on that transportation receipt? A. No, sir; I did not.

Q. Thank you.

A. And that is definitely not my signature.

Q. Do you have any knowledge of who used that ticket?

A. None.

Mr. TAYLER. That is all.

Mr. HAYS. Mr. Waggonner.

Mr. WAGGONNER. You have given us a rather full account of your part in actually procuring tickets once they have been made out, and you testified that you did primarily casework. Did it ever fall your responsibility to arrange reservations for committee travel or for members of the office staff to travel?

The WITNESS. I can't think of a-no, I could say that I never arranged any trip. I have had to call to find out what possible flights were available and to give such information to people. But so far as following through, making the arrangements, I can recall no such instance.

Mr. WAGGONNER. Was the office staff so organized that when such arrangements were made, generally speaking, somebody had this responsibility, it didn't just go from one to another, depending upon who might be available?

The WITNESS. So far as I know, sir-now I could be wrong, misinformed on this-but it was always my idea that Mrs. Dargans was the person responsible for that and she was rather jealous of that responsibility. People didn't tread on that.

Mr. WAGGONNER. Could you tell me who generally gave her the direction which was necessary in arranging such travel? Did it come from the Congressman himself or from his administrative assistant?

The WITNESS. That I cannot answer. I am sure that they must have got orders from both, but that would be conjecture on my part. I don't know.

Mr. WAGGONNER. No further questions, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. HAYS. Mr. Dickinson?

Mr. DICKINSON. No.

Mr. JONES. No questions.

Mr. HAYS. Mr. Devine? Mr. Nedzi?

Mr. NEDZI. Mrs. Harris, do you know Mrs. Flores or Mrs. Powell? The WITNESS. No; I was not on the staff when she was with the committee, and when she has purportedly been in Washington I have not seen her. I don't know her.

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