Currency Committee has worked with these important aspects of our national economy for more than 30 years. And as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Mr. Weaver, since your confirmation 5 years ago, you, too, have wrestled with these problems and have appeared before us again and again to report on your progress and to recommend changes in the programs.

Now a distinguished representative of the press said to me "Will you vote for this confirmation?" and I said, "Yes. At one time I thought he was going to be prejudiced, but I have watched him very closely and I haven't found that he was prejudiced. This time I am going to vote for his confirmation.'

Congress last year decided to create this new Department and to provide departmental status for the consideration of these problems, though some of us felt that this step might result in greatly increased expenditures and in overconcentration on special urban affairs at the expense of broader questions of nationwide significance.

It is now up to you, gentlemen, and to your other associates in the new Department, to start the Department off on its course. It is up to you and to your associates to make sure that the programs which the President and the Congress have placed in your hands are carried out effectively and efficiently, and in accordance with the will of the Congress. It is up to you to make sure that your achievement of the goals placed in your hands by the Congress is fully and properly coordinated with the aims and goals assigned to other Departments by the Congress. In the case of transportation, for example, the urban mass transit program which we have placed in your hands is of vital concern to the other Departments and agencies which concern themselves with transportation-the Department of Commerce, the ICC, and perhaps the proposed new Department of Transportation. Incidentally, I mention that because it has been proposed, but I hope it will not be put into effect, as far as I am concerned.

Those who live in cities are interested in many of the specialized programs of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfaresuch as education and social security and of the Departments of Labor and Commerce. They are, of course, also interested in the overriding national problems handled by the Departments of State and Defense, and in the broad economic questions of employment, production, and stability, which are the particular concern of the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, and the Counsel of Economic Advisers.

You must carry out the programs vested in your Department by the Congress, as a member of the executive branch and as a member of the President's Cabinet, with full regard for the needs of other programs and other Departments, and with full regard for the broader objectives of the Government as a whole and for the people of the United States.

Without objection, the biographies of Mr. Weaver and Mr. Wood will be placed in the record at this point. In addition, since these nominees will be the first to occupy their positions at the Department, Public Law 89-174, which established the Department, and material relating to the Department will also be inserted in the record at the end of the hearing.

(The biographies follow.)

THE WHITE HOUSE-BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON ROBERT C. WEAVER Mr. Robert C. Weaver was born in Washington, D.C., on December 29, 1907. He was educated at Harvard University, receiving a B.S. in 1929, an M.A. in 1931, and a Ph. D. in 1934.

From 1933 to 1937 he was the Adviser for Negro Affairs, Department of the Interior, and from 1937 to 1940 he served as the Special Assistant to the Administrator, U.S. Housing Authority. He also worked from 1940 to 1944 as an official on the War Production Board, where he became Chief of the Minority Group Service Division. From 1945 to 1948 Mr. Weaver was a member of the American Council on Race Relations.

After teaching at Northwestern University, Columbia Teachers College and New York University, Mr. Weaver became the director of opportunity fellowships, John Hay Whitney Foundation, a position he held until 1954.

In 1954, Mr. Weaver was named the deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Housing and from 1955 to 1959 served as the State Rent Administrator, New York. From 1960 to 1961 he was the vice chairman of the New York City Housing and Redevelopment Board.

Mr. Weaver became the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency in 1961, a position he has held since that time.

He is the author of "Negro Labor, A National Problem" (1946), “The Negro Ghetto" (1948), and "The Urban Complex" (1964).

He lives at 4600 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. Mr. Weaver is married to the former Ella V. Haith.

THE WHITE HOUSE-BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON ROBERT C. WOOD

Prof. Robert C. Wood, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., is chairman of the Political Science Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in St. Louis, Mo., on September 16, 1923, he served with the 76th Infantry during World War II. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1946. At Harvard University, he was awarded an M.A. in 1947, a master of public administration in 1948, and a Ph. D. in 1950.

From 1949 to 1951 he was associate director, Legislative Reference Bureau of the State of Florida. At the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1951 to 1954, Mr. Wood served as a management organization expert in the housing field.

Mr. Wood became a lecturer and then an assistant professor of government at Harvard University in 1954. In 1957 he left Harvard to join the faculty at MIT where he taught as an assistant professor of political science from 1957 to 1959, and as an associate professor from 1959 to 1962. In 1962, Mr. Wood was named professor of political science; and in 1965, he became the chairman of the political science department at MIT.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Capital Transportation Agency, the Committee for Economic Development, and the American Academy for Arts and Sciences. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while at Princeton. He is the author of "Suburbia, Its People and Their Politics" (1958); "Metropolis Against Itself" (1959); "1400 Governments, the Political Economy of the New York Region" (1960); and the coauthor of "School Men and Politics" (1962), and "Government and Politics of the U.S." (1965).

Mr. Wood lives on Trapelo Road, Lincoln, Mass., with his wife, the former Margaret Byers, and three children, Francis, Margaret, and Frank.

The CHAIRMAN. Now the chairman is very happy at this time to recognize the two distinguished Senators from New York, who will present the nominee from New York.

Senator Javits.

STATEMENT OF JACOB K. JAVITS, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Senator JAVITS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am very grateful to you for this opportunity to appear before you with respect to the nomination of Dr. Weaver.

Mr. Chairman, I have a rather special feeling about this, as I sat on this committee 5 years ago when we first considered Dr. Weaver's nomination as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. I think the most important thing that can be said for him is that his present appointment is justified on the record. We may have had our questions at that time, but certaintly for the past 5 years he has made a splendid Administrator. Dr. Weaver has fully justified our confidence in reporting out his nomination at that time.

The second point the chairman himself has just made, which to me is very significant. Having served as attorney general of the State of New York in the same administration in which Dr. Weaver first won his spurs in the housing field-that is, Governor Harriman's administration-it was my feeling when Dr. Weaver was confirmed 5 years ago that he understood the problems of race in the United States well enough to know that the one thing you should never do is to have discrimination in reverse. In this regard he has been, I think, one of the prime exemplars in the country of "calling them as he sees them," without any self-consciousness whatever as to his own origin. And this, I think, is a magnificent tribute to the man, quite apart from this proceeding. I would like that to be recorded and Dr. Weaver to know how I feel about that.

There is no question about the overriding significance of this job. This is the age of the cities, and we have signalized that by creating this new Cabinet post. I think Dr. Weaver, Mr. Chairman, aside from the excellence of his past record, is in a very fine position to do what needs to be done, because he understands the problems of the rank and file and the problems of the minorities which place the cities in a unique position.

Finally, Mr. Chairman, one of the things which I have had the honor of contributing to the bill authorizing this Department was the responsibility of coordination. I think that the Department is very deficient in the range of authority and functions which have been assigned to it, very limited in terms of trying to do the job that needs to be done for coordinating U.S. aid and U.S. responsibility for the cities. But it does have a very broad coordination section. I believe that Dr. Weaver, through the work he has done in the Federal Government, and his general skill, will be able to carry out superbly that coordinating function, which depends so heavily upon the cooperation and good will of other administrators and other Cabinet officials. For all those reasons, Mr. Chairman, I take great pride, as a representative of our State which is the home State of Dr. Weaver, in sponsoring him before this committee for confirmation in this new Cabinet post.

The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Senator Javits. We will now be pleased to hear from the junior Senator from the great Empire State.

STATEMENT OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Senator KENNEDY. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am pleased and honored to join with my senior colleague in supporting Mr. Weaver as the President's nominee as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mr. Weaver's record is a distinguished one and one of great public service. Immediately following his education he joined the Federal

Government; he worked first in the Department of the Interior, and then came to the Housing Authority upon its founding in 1937, so therefore he has had long experience. He moved to various agencies which were involved in mobilizing the economy during World War II. After the war he worked in a variety of private foundation posts and administered major State and municipal agencies in New York State, where he was given positions of considerable responsibility and honor. He came to Washington as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency in 1961. In that post he was the embodiment of fairness and judicious judgment. As a result, those who questioned his appointment when it was made and as he pointed out to me this morning, we had something in common in that our appointments were the most controversial that President Kennedy made were won over by the way that he administered his agency.

President Kennedy intended to name Mr. Weaver to the proposed post of Secretary of Urban Affairs and have him join his Cabinet. I am glad and happy and proud that President Johnson has confirmed this judgment, so that we have two Presidents who really felt Mr. Weaver should be a member of their Cabinets.

I would like to add just one final point. I believe the day will come here in the United States when we will not discuss a nominee's race, as the day has now arrived that we do not discuss a nominee's religion. However, Mr. Weaver is the first Negro to attain Cabinet rank and that is noted not only in this room but across the United States and even across the world. And I believe there is a very vital point here. It is the talent, the integrity, and the dedication that he embodies that will bring the time when an appointee's race will not be considered, either privately or publicly, in considering any individual for any post within the United States.

I thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you. As the biographies which we will insert in the record show, both of these nominees are graduates of the great school of Harvard. The next witness will be from Harvard, and I just want to let the record show that the only reason Harvard is older than William & Mary is that the King who promised to send over the William & Mary charter went hunting and that is how Harvard got there first. [Laughter.]

They also made a little more money up in New England than we did in Virginia and they may have moved ahead a little on the development program.

Harvard has every right to be proud of the next witness. He is a 10th generation Harvard man. Someone said it is only three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves and generally that is pretty much true. But here is a man who demonstrates that brains and character and ability can be preserved through generation after generation, that members of the same family can be Governor after Governor in one of the truly great States, and that, even though under the influence and gentle prodding of a clan called Kennedy, Massachusetts has sort of shifted from its traditional Republican status, he can hold office as long as he chooses to run and will voluntarily retire from office at the end of this term.

The next witness is one of the ablest men in the Senate. There are only four or five men in the Senate senior to him. He is one of the most highly respected and one of the most beloved. All of us

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regretted it when he said "Gentlemen, I am going to leave these problems to you after this year."

Senator Saltonstall.

STATEMENT OF LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS

Senator SALTONSTALL. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate very much the kind words you said about me. I can say this to you, that William & Mary would be the oldest college in the country today if it hadn't been for the fact that they had a bit of a row or hesitation or something down there, and allowed Harvard to come in in 1636 and take the oldest continuous university record away from them. Otherwise William & Mary would be older.

Now, Mr. Chairman, it is my pleasure to present a man who is already well known to you, Prof. Robert Wood of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Presently he is a chairman of the political science department at that fine institution and is in charge of the urban affairs programs. As you stated, Professor Wood is a graduate of the Littauer School of Public Administration at Harvard University and served as an assistant professor there before he joined the faculty at MIT. He is a Massachusetts citizen in the best sense of that word. He is a former resident of Florida where he served as associate director of the legislative reference bureau of that State, so he has a broad background on which to work. He has specialized in urban problems, is the author of several publications on that subject, and has been a member of a number of major committees dealing with allied problems. Recently he has been serving as Chairman of the White House Task Force on Urban Problems. I am confident that he will make a very fine assistant and Under Secretary to Mr. Weaver, who is the new Secretary of the new Department.

I am glad also to endorse Mr. Weaver here before your committee. I am confident that Mr. Wood will be very helpful to him as he is very well informed on the subject of urban problems and housing and the questions that will come before him in the new Department. I am very glad to present him to you, although I know you have known him well from past appearances here before your committee. I am sure that he and Mr. Weaver will make a good team and will get this new Department off to a good start. I thank you for the opportunity of being here this morning.

The CHAIRMAN. We thank you, sir.

I would like to read for the record at this time a letter dated January 14, from the executive director of the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, addressed to the Honorable Robert C. Weaver. DEAR BOB: I want to extend to you my warm congratulations on your nomination as the first Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. With the creation of the Department and under your stewardship, the urban community is duly represented on the Nation's "board of directors.' The needs, concerns, ambitions, and opportunities of our cities and towns can now be dealt with on a parity with other important segments of our national interest.

I truly hope that once the new Department is in motion, the Congress will recognize the virtues of moving under its wing Federal activities not presently included but which are predominately matters affecting urban living.

Kindest regards.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE M. Cox, Executive Director.