Personnel Administration and Operations of Agency for International Development: Special Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, [Wednesday, May 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, June 5, 10, 1963] |
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Page 11 - It is important to bear in mind that we are here dealing not alone with an authority vested in the President by an exertion of legislative power, but with such an authority plus the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the Federal Government in the field of international relations...
Page 10 - As a member of the family of nations, the right and power of the United States in that field are equal to the right and power of the other members of the international family. Otherwise, the United States is not completely sovereign.
Page 11 - Not only as we have shown is the Federal power over external affairs in origin and essential character different from that over internal affairs, but participation in the exercise of the power is significantly limited. In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen ns a representative of the Nation.
Page 10 - Enforcement, 2d ed., p. 102 and note 1), none of which is expressly affirmed by the Constitution, nevertheless exist as inherently inseparable from the conception of nationality. This the court recognized, and in each of the cases cited found the warrant for its conclusions not in the provisions of the Constitution, but in the law of nations.
Page 268 - ... briefly. One is the limitation on our ability to negotiate reasonable exchange agreements with the Eastern European countries. Senator ELLEXDER. If you gave the same terms to the east as you give to the west, you would have no trouble whatever. But when we go east, we have a chip on our shoulders. I have been there, and I know what I am talking about. There is no sincere effort made. Mr. HUMMEL. I believe that there is a sincere effort made, and according Senator ELLENDER. I wish I could handle...
Page 10 - It results that the investment of the federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution. The powers to declare and wage war, to conclude peace, to make treaties, to maintain diplomatic relations with other sovereignties, if they had never been mentioned in the Constitution, would have vested in the federal government as necessary concomitants of nationality.
Page 11 - ... in the interest of orderly and effective execution of long-term plans and programs of development assistance, he is authorized to enter into agreements committing, under the terms and conditions of this title, funds authorized to be appropriated under this title, subject only to the annual appropriation of such funds; (c) Upon conclusion of each such agreement involving funds to be appropriated, the President shall notify the Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the...
Page 308 - Office of Capital Development and Finance, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, AID (GS-13).
Page 156 - True, but the relative number of people eiigaged in the loan program is smaller than those in the development grant programs. There is another thing that I am sure you are aware of, and that is that all of these figures that we have been discussing, while they include contractor personnel engaged in contracts on the development grant program, do not include Americans working for contractors on construction projects on which we have made loans. Senator MUNDT. While you are on page 4 I have a question....
Page 168 - RESOURCES Senator McGEE. How does the Office of Material Resources, which among other things has the Public Law 480 program, implement the policy with respect to these programs through your region? Mr. GAUD. Well, the Office of Material Resources really has a dual function. It is both staff and line. The relationships with us — they have many — they handle certain kinds of procurement, small business requirements, and shipping compliance for us. As far as Public Law 480, we handle with them the...