SPEECH REVIEW POLICIES HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL PREPAREDNESS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION PART 2 FEBRUARY 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 19, 27, 28, 1962 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE CONTENTS Testimony of Hon. Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Page 369 Willis D. Lawrence, Assistant Director for Policy and Procedures of the Directorate for Security Review, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) 507 Hon. Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense.. 507 Rear Adm. William C. Mott, U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General of the Navy. 521 571 Lt. Col. Kenneth F. Gantz, U.S. Air Force, editor, Air University Hon. George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State_ Comdr. S. R. Overall, Jr., U.S. Navy, Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations Lt. Col. F. A. Smith, Jr., Technical and Industrial Liaison Office, Office of the Chief of Research and Development, Department of the Army 646 673 697 717 Hon. Roger W. Tubby, Assistant Secretary of State for Public 796, 816 Philip H. Burris, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public 833 Col. Edward B. Rasmessen, U.S. Air Force. 880 Francis W. Herron, Deputy Director of the Policy Plans and Guidance 895 Additional information: Statements from Robert E. Hansen, Commander in Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars 492 General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, former President of the Letter from Maj. Gen. H. A. Gerhardt (amendment to testimony of Gen. Abstracts of changes in speeches of Gen. George H. Decker, Chief of 525 562 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Ball, Hon. George W., Under Secretary of State___ 717 Gantz, Lt. Col. Kenneth F., U.S. Air Force, editor, Air University Quarterly Burris, Philip H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs__ 833 521 697 Herron, Francis W., Deputy Director of the Policy Plans and Guidance 895 507 Page McNamara, Hon. Robert S., Secretary of Defense.. Mott, Rear Adm. William C., U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General of the 507 571 Overall, Comdr. S. R., Jr., U.S. Navy, special assistant to the Chief of 673 880 Rasmessen, Col. Edward B., U.S. Air Force.. 646 Smith, Lt. Col. F. A., Jr., Technical and Industrial Liaison Office, Office of 369 The special subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:15 a.m., in room 318, Old Senate Office Building. Present: Senators Stennis (chairman), Thurmond, Bartlett, Symington, Jackson, Saltonstall, Smith, and Case. Also present: Cyrus R. Vance, General Counsel, Department of Defense; special subcommittee staff: James T. Kendall, chief counsel. Senator STENNIS. The subcommittee will come to order, please. Mr. Sylvester, you are the first witness this morning. If you will, please stand and be sworn. Dov o you solemnly swear that your testimony before this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. SYLVESTER. I do, Mr. Chairman. TESTIMONY OF ARTHUR SYLVESTER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (PUBLIC AFFAIRS) M'NAMARA LETTER CONCERNING IDENTITY OF REVIEWERS Senator STENNIS. Mr. Sylvester, we are glad to have you here, but if you will excuse us just a minute, I am going to read into the record a letter that I have just received from Secretary McNamara to the subcommittee regarding the question that came out yesterday when the witness replied that he was instructed by Secretary McNamara not to answer questions concerning the identity of a particular reviewer who had passed upon a certain speech. This letter is dated February 1, 1962. As I say, it is from Secretary McNamara himself: DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: At the Subcommittee hearing yesterday, Mr. Willis Lawrence declined, on my instructions, to answer a question put to him by Senator Thurmond as to the name of the individual within the Department who had reviewed a particular speech. When Mr. Lawrence based his refusal on my instructions, you raised the question as to whether or not the doctrine of Executive Privilege was being invoked. In instructing Mr. Lawrence as I did I was not motivated by any desire to invoke a constitutional principle. My reasons were based simply upon my firm conviction that this refusal would in no way inhibit the investigation of your Subcommittee but was at the same time absolutely essential to maintain sound |