U.S. CONGRESS. SENATE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

APPROPRIATIONS

HEARINGS

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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 7179

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
JUNE 30, 1964, AND FOR OTHER

PURPOSES

Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1963

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia, Chairman

CARL HAYDEN, Arizona
LISTER HILL, Alabama
JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas
ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Louisiana
A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, Virginia
JOHN STENNIS, Mississippi

JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island
WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington
A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma
MICHAEL J. MANSFIELD, Montana

LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Massachuset
MILTON R. YOUNG, North Dakota
MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine
KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota
GORDON ALLOTT, Colorado
THOMAS H. KUCHEL, California

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS FROM ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona

HARRY F. BYRD, Virginia
STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR 1964

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1963

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1224 Serate Office Building, Hon. Richard B. Russell, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding.

Present: Senators Russell, Hayden, Ellender, Robertson, Stennis, Pastore, Monroney, Saltonstall, Young, Allott, and Goldwater ex officio).

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

STATEMENTS OF HON. ROBERT S. MCNAMARA, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE; GEN. EARLE G. WHEELER, CHIEF OF STAFF, U.S. ARMY, REPRESENTING GEN. MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF; CHARLES J. HITCH, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER); AND MAJ. GEN. R. S. MOORE, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER).

DEPARTMENTAL REQUESTS

Senator RUSSELL. The subcommittee will come to order.

Today the subcommittee begins hearings on the Department of Defense appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964. This subcommittee will have under consideration requests for new obligational authority totaling $49,014,237,000. This does not indude other requests of the Department of Defense for the following

Those items will be considered by other subcommittees. The total mount requested for all of those activities that are connected with the defense of our country and the maintenance of peace on this sphere omes to about $52,800 million. It is a very staggering sum of money when considered in some aspects. When we look to the things that expenditure is supposed to protect, it is not excessive.

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