GENERAL STATEMENT TAB A

WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

GENERAL STATEMENT

The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act, approved on October 24, 1968, (Public Law 90-637) established the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as the nation's official living memorial to the 28th President. The Center was placed in the Smithsonian Institution under the direction of a 15-man, mixed private and public Board of Trustees, subsequently appointed by President Johnson and President Nixon. Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was designated Chairman of the Board.

After a seven-month planning period the Board of Trustees approved at its fall 1969 meeting the opening in October of 1970 of fellowship and guest scholar programs in space made available for the interim use of the Center in the newly renovated, original Smithsonian Institution building on the Mall.

In the fall, winter and spring of 1969-70 the Board of Trustees authorized the publication of notices about the programs of the Center, and the Center staff disseminated information about the programs widely by correspondence with colleges and universities in every state and a large list of individuals and institutions here and abroad, including several Fulbright-Hays binational commissions and foundations in other countries with the consent of the Secretary of State. Hundreds of nominations and applications were received throughout this period and processed by the staff to obtain references, interviews whenever possible and writings of the fellowship candidates. After obtaining the recommendations of outside academic advisory panels on the files of leading candidates, the Fellowship and Guest Scholar Committee of the Board of Trustees approved in March and June the issuance of 25 invitations for fellowship appointments which have been accepted by the recipients. Other outstanding applications have been received subsequently and more are expected in the months ahead, which will be processed in the same manner. Additional appointment invitations will be issued by the Board as resources permit on December 1, 1970, and March 1 and July 1, 1971.

When the Center opens on October 19, 1970, twenty fellows are expected to undertake full-time scholarship at the Center. Five additional appointees will be coming at subsequent dates. The scholars will be undertaking work in three principal areas: (1) the increase of understanding, law and cooperative practice between nations in the uses of the oceans; (2) man's overall

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relations to his deteriorating environment, particularly the international institutional arrangements which must be worked out to resolve environmental problems transcending boundaries; and (3) general studies under the Center's basic theme of "increasing man's understanding of significant international governmental and social problems and improving the organization of society at all levels to meet such problems".

The terms of appointment will vary from a few weeks to more than a year in duration; the average to date being more than ten months (6 weeks-18 months). The average age of the fellows will be 39. Half of the first fellows come from the United States; the other half from eight other countries (Australia, England, France, India, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The opening slate of scholars is drawn from the social and behavioral sciences, the humanities, the natural sciences, and careers in government, law, diplomacy and journalism.

In addition, the Center will also have a small guest scholar program under which eminent visiting scholars, particularly those expert in the fields being emphasized at the Center, will be welcome to work for brief periods of stay in Washington.

In response to the strong urging received during the legislative hearings, planning, congressional appropriation hearings and subsequent stages, the Center plans to sponsor a series of seminars, dinner discussions and lectures to which members of the Executive and Legislative branches, the Diplomatic Corps and the public will be invited on a fairly regular basis.

Funding

Section 6 of the legislation creating the Center authorized the appropriation "to the Board" of "such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act" and directed the Board to raise money from private sources as well.

Funding for planning, administrative and preparatory operations from March, 1969, through June 30, 1970, were based on the following sources:

Ford Foundation Grant $45, 000

Federal Appropriations for FY-70($100, 000)

Actually Obligated 90, 799. 74

In addition, the State Department transferred $2 5, 000 to the Smithsonian Institution, which was obligated in FY-1970, to support in part the fellowship

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appointments at the Center of four duly appointed non-US scholars arriving during the current fiscal year.

For preparation and operation (from October 19) of the Center during the current fiscal year, Congress appropriated $750, 000. On September 1, 1970, $620, 000 was apportioned for the Center's use by the Office of Management and Budget for the administrative expenses of staffing and equipping the Center and supporting the fellowship program, based on principles and estimates supplied to OMB examiners on August 21, 1970.

In addition, the congressional appropriation committees specifically approved the extension of a $130, 000 matching grant to the Center from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Center's fellowship program of scholarship in the humanities. As of September 1 the Center had raised $27, 125 of private donations to the NEH so that $54, 250 of matching funds have been made available for the fellowship program. In addition, the Center had raised $13, 477 of general purpose donations as of the same date.

Under procedures approved by the Board last year, the Board of Trustees is now requesting the Office of Management and Budget for the approval of an FY-1972 budget of $815, 000 to be used for support of the Center's fellowship program ($462, 000) and administrative expenses ($353, 000). For reference purposes in the following justification section, comparisons are included with the FY-71 $750, 000 appropriation as well as with the $620, 000 apportionment.

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WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

Funding Estimates and Appropriation Request

1970"" 1971 1972

Appropriation Appropriation Apportionment Estimate

Pos. Amount Pos. Amount Amount Pos . Amount

Fellowship

Program 0 0 7 344,000 (280,000) 7 462,000

Administrative _8_ 90, 800 8 406, 000 (340, 000) _8_ 353, 000

Total 8 90,800 15 750,000 620,000 15 815,000

Total Requested Federal Appropriation Increase $ 65, 000

Total Requested Federal Appropriation Increase above Apportionment. .195, 000

As will be detailed below, the increase requested above the current FY appropriation and apportionment is occasioned almost entirely by the fact that the Center will be open and operating for twelve months in FY-1972 as opposed to 8-1/2 months in FY-1971.

Fellowship Program 462, 000

The $462,000 requested for support of the fellowship program in FY-72 is an increase of $118,000 over the $344,000 estimated for fellowship purposes under the FY-71 appropriation; an increase of $182,000 over the amount estimated to be available for this purpose under the sum apportioned. Nevertheless, the $462,000 requested is less than the sum appropriated plus the $130, 000 matching grant specifically approved for the fellowship program support by the appropriation committees.

The sum requested will permit the Center to commit funds during FY-1972 for 20 full fellowships to begin during FY-1972 or FY-1973 at an average anticipated cost of $23,100 apiece for stipends and travel. The anticipated costs are based on the same average, yearly rate experience levels on which the existing FY-1971 budget estimates were made with the addition of a 5 percent actual cost for handling bookkeeping, disbursements and accounting.

The increase is primarily the result of the planned year-round operations of the Center in the coming fiscal year as opposed to 8-1/2 months in the current fiscal year, and secondarily, to estimates based on the Trustees 1 Fellowship and Guest Scholar Committee's decision last June to eliminate

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the first year preference for candidates with outside means of support and to base selection exclusively on the merit of the scholar and his project.

The Center's stipend policy, which was approved by the Board of Trustees and spelled out in detail in submissions to the appropriation committees, is based on the precedents used by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. Each appointed fellow is asked first to devote his sabbatical leave or other earned income during the fellowship period toward his support while at the Center and to seek outside foundation or other support for his study proposal whenever possible. Thereafter, the Center's policy is to attempt to provide the fellow with a stipend rate which would be a no-gain no-loss figure over his earned income rate in the preceding year within set limits (maximum $25, 000 offered to date; $30, 000 authorized) and with a cost-of-living increase for non-U. S. scholars to bring them to an equivalent stipend with U.S. scholars of comparable position.

Most scholars of the stature appointed by the Center to date simply cannot be expected to come at a lower average stipend figure and many will come at a loss because of the preset limit, even though many of them will be devoting sabbatical or leave pay, foundation funds and other outside income to their support during the period of appointment at the Center. The highest stipends offered at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Fogarty Center (NIH), the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the Adlai Stevenson Institute are all higher than those offered by the Center to date. The most recent data of the American Association of University Professors shows that in the academic year 1969-70, ten percent of all universities in the U. S. had a mean compensation for full professors above $23,970.

In addition, the Center offers reimbursement of travel expenses for American carrier, round-trip, direct route, jet economy fare for the fellow and his accompanying dependent family members between his home city and Washington.

As in the present fiscal year, the Center's goal in FY-1971 will be to raise an equivalent amount of private monies for support of the fellowship program to fund an additional 20 fellowships and to bring the Center up to full complement of 40 scholars. The "critical mass" for the Center according to the best advice we have been able to gather is a minimum of 20 to 40 scholars at all times. Without such a minimum number it would be hard for the Center to establish a fully satisfactory intellectual life of its own.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees Executive Committee on September 23, 1970, it was decided that the Center, OMB and Congressional FY-1972

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budget presentations should state as a general principle that the Center would not request public appropriations for more than twenty full fellowships in any given year during the occupancy of present interim quarters, and the Board and staff would attempt each year to raise funds from the private sector to finance an additional equal number of fellowships. The Center's fund raising capability and experience will be fully tested in the months ahead, and a major corporation and foundation fund drive is now being launched.

The experience of other centers and the Wilson Center to date indicates that the heavy majority of appointments must be made many months in advance of the date of the beginning of the period of appointment, and for this reason the Center is requesting the same "no year" provision for the FY-1972 federal appropriation with Congress provided in the Center's appropriation for FY-1971.

Administrative Expenses

The $353,000 request for administrative expenses of the Center in FY-1972 represents a decrease of $53, 000 from the $406, 000 FY-1971 estimated administrative expenses included in the current congressional appropriation, an increase of $13, 000 over the sum estimated for this purpose under the apportionment figure.

The breakdown of this figure is as follows:

(1) Staff Salaries - 5 substantive; 10 clerical

1 Director (GS-18) 35, 505

1 Deputy Director (GS-16) 27,432

1 Administrative Officer (GS-13) 17, 878

1 Librarian (GS-12) 14, 665

1 Information Center Officer (GS-11) 12, 302

10 Secretaries for staff, fellows and guest scholars (GS-9, 1 GS-8, 1 GS-7,

7 GS-5/6 at $7500@) . 80,000

.75 Equivalent part-time GS-5/6 secretarial 6, 879

194,661 Fringe Benefits @ 7. 5 14, 339

209, 000

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(2) Furnishings, Equipment, Supplies, etc.

(a) Furnishings and Equipment 10, 000

(b) Supplies 10, 000

(c) Reference Library (books and

periodicals) 23,000

(d) Printing 9, 000

(e) Travel (trustees, staff and scholars) 15, 000

(f) Consultations (scholar coordinators,

fund raising, guest scholars) 30, 000

(g) Seminars, dinner discussions, lectures 20,000 (h) Permanent Site Selection Scholar Survey 13, 500 (i) Phones 7, 500 (j) Other (postage, insurance, etc. ) 6, 000

144, 000 144, 000

353, 000

A. Staff Salaries

The Center is budgeting in FY-1972, except for the addition of limited part-time secretarial help, for the same number of permanent positions (15. 75) as to be employed (15) in the current fiscal year: 5 professionals; 10. 75 clerical--$209, 000. The cost increase of $29, 000 over estimated current fiscal year costs is due to anticipated in-grade promotions and the added year-round cost for the pool secretaries for the fellows, who will be on the rolls for only part of the current fiscal year but the entire year in FY-1972. The need for additional part-time clerical assistance is anticipated because of the expected cyclical nature of the workload. Clerical help positions included are designed to permit the Center to assign one secretary to every 4 or 5 scholars, which is the ratio found acceptable at other centers of advanced studies. The proposed staff arrangement appears minimal to run the Center, process the heavy flow of applications and scholar selection procedures--which are often as onerous for unsuccessful as for successful candidates--and to provide the essential services approved by the Board of Trustees for the fellows, guest scholars and members of the public.

B. Other Administrative Expenses of $144, 000 are largely self-explanatory.

The proposed scholar survey item, which will be undertaken jointly with the Archives and Library of Congress, will attempt to develop the first precise information about the resident and transient post-doctorate scholars

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in the Washington area, their work habits and residential arrangements. This information is needed to provide basic data for an intelligent choice of a permanent site for the Center, as directed in the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act. The furnishings and equipment item is, of course, a fraction of the current fiscal year costs, since the Center will have acquired during the current fiscal year the major share of needed physical assets, other than basic reference library acquisitions which will be spread over 3 years.

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BUDGET SCHEDULES TAB B

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Salaries and Expenses, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Wood-row Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356), including hire of passenge r vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $815, 000

\*js750,00(j["to remain available until expended.

( Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1971)

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PERFORMANCE STATEMENT

WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was cre-ted by Congress (Public Law 90-637, approved October 24, 1968) as the nation's official living memorial to the twenty-eighth President. The Center was placed in the Smithsonian Institution under the direction of a fifteen member, mixed public and private Board of Trustees, subsequently appointed by President Johnson and President Nixon. Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was designated Chairman of the Board.

After an intensive planning period the Board of Trustees determined to open the Center with both international fellowship and guest scholar programs starting in the fall of 1970 in interim space made available in the newly renovated, original Smithsonian Institution building on the Mall.

The theme of the fellowship program chosen by the Board is designed to accentuate those aspects of Wilson's ideals and concerns for which he is perhaps best known a half century after his presidency--his search for international peace and the imaginative new approaches he used to meet the pressing issues of his day. Under this theme general studies will be sponsored designed "to increase man's understanding of significant

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international, governmental and social problems, and to improve the or-ganization of society at all levels to meet such problems". In addition, the trustees determined to invite and sponsor scholarship in two specific areas: (1) the increase of understanding, law and cooperative practice between nations in the uses of the oceans; and (2) man's overall relations

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to his deteriorating environment, particularly the international institutional arrangements which must be worked out to resolve environmental problems transcending boundaries. Other special topics will be chosen for concentration from time to time.

When the Center opens on October 19, 1970, twenty fellows will be undertaking full-time scholarship at the Center, and they will be joined in later weeks by five additional appointees. Additional appointment invitations will be issued by the Board as resources permit on March 1, July 1 and December 1 each year from the applications and nominations received and processed by reference correspondence, interviews, examination of the candidate, writings and receipt of recommendations from outside advisory panels.

When the fellowship program is fully operational, up to forty scholars--approximately half from the U.S. and half from other countries--will be -working at the Center at any given time in the calendar year. Fellows are chosen from academic and non-academic occupations and professions--the former from a number of social and behavioral sciences,

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from the humanities, and from the natural sciences, and the latter from diverse careers including government, international organizations, law, diplomacy, labor, business, foundations and journalism. Terms of appointment vary from a few weeks to more than a year, and no arbitrary age limits are set. The Center's primary concern is to select scholars whose intellect, experience and dedication will enable them to contribute to the increase and diffusion of knowledge about contemporary subjects of widespread concern to men in a community of scholars of like purpose.

The fiscal year 1972 appropriation request is based on the decision of the Board to sponsor a continuous advanced scholar, international fellowship program throughout the coming fiscal year and beyond. The program will continue to be conducted in the interim facilities in the Smithsonian Institution building in FY-72. As in the current year each fellow appointed to the Center will be expected to pursue his own areas of scholarly interest on a full-time basis during the period of his appointment. The Center will make available a furnished office, secretarial services, dictation and duplicating equipment, publications assistance and a small reference library, and meeting and commons rooms. While most of the basic furnishing costs will be completed in the current fiscal year, a few such costs including reference library acquisitions will be

deferred until FY-1972. Stipends to cover living expenses in the Washington area, travel, and other expenses will be met within specified

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limits. Center staff will administer the program and assist the scholars in locating and gaining access to the intellectual resources of the Washington area. The Center plans to sponsor a series of seminars, dinner discussions and lectures to which members of the Executive and Legislative Branches, the Diplomatic Corps and the public will be invited on a regular basis.

In addition, the Center will have a small guest scholar program under which eminent visiting scholars, particularly those expert in the fields being emphasized at the Center, will be welcome to work for brief periods of stay in Washington.

Also the Center will have an information officer on its staff to assist resident and visiting scholars to learn about the research programs and experts in their fields who are available in the Washington area.

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May 1969, Bureau of the Budget Circular No. A-ll, Revised.

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OBJECT CLASSIFICATION (in thousands of dollars)

Identification code

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PUBLIC LAW TAB C

Public Law 90-637

90th Congress, S. 3174

October 24, 1968

an act

To establish a National Memorial to Woodrow Wilson.

Be it enacted by the Minute and House of Representative* of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be Woodrow Wilson cited as the "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968." Memorial Aat

of 1968.

DECLARATION OF POLICY

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Sec. 2. The Congress hereby finds and declares—

(1) that a living institution expressing the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson would be an appropriate memorial to his accomplishments as the twenty-eighth President of the United States, a distinguished scholar, an outstanding university president, and a brilliant advocate of international understanding:

(2) that the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission, created by joint resolution of Congress, recommended that an International Center for Scholars be constructed in the District of Columbia in the area north of the proposed Market Square as part of the Nation's memorial to Woodrow Wilson;

(3) that such a center, symbolizing and strengthening the fruitful relation between the world of learning and the world of public affairs, would be a suitable memorialto the spirit of Woodrow Wilson; and

(4) that the establishment of such a center would be consonant with the purposes of the Smithsonian Institution, created by Congress in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."

THE CENTER AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Sec. 3. (a) There is hereby established in the Smithsonian Institution a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Board of Trustees of the Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center" and the "Board"), whose duties it shall be to maintain and administer the Center and site thereof and to execute such other functions as are vested in the Board by this Act.

(b) The Board of Trustees shall be composed of fifteen members as follows:

(1) the Secretary of State;

(2) the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare;

(3) the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities;

(4) the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution;

(5) the Librarian of Congress;

(6) the Archivist of the United States;

(7) one appointed by the President from time to time from within the Federal Government; and

(8) eight appointed by the President from private life.

(c) Each member of the Board of Trustees specified in paragraphs (1) through (7) of subsection (b) may designate another official to serve on the Board of Trustees in his stead.

(d) Each member of the Board of Trustees appointed under paragraph (8) of subsection (b) shall serve for a term of six years from the expiration of his predecessor's term; except that (1) any trustee appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and (2) the terms of office of. the trustees first taking office shall begin on the date of the enactment of this Act,

82 STAT. 1356 BS STAT, 1357

Woodrow Wilion International Center for SohoIan (Board of Trustee! of the Center. Establishment, Membership.

Term.

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Pub. Law 90-637 - 2 October 24, 1968

and shall expire as designated at the time of appointment, two at

the end of two years, three at the end of four years, and three at B2 STAT. 1357 the end of six years. No trustee of the Board chosen from private life 82 STAT, 1358 shall 1* eligible, to serve in excess of two consecutive terms, except that

a trustee whose term has expired may serve until his successor has

qualified.

(e) The President shall designate a Chairman and a Vice Chairman

from among the members of the Board chosen from private life.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE HOARD

Sec. 4. (a) In administering the Center, the Board shall have all necessary and proper powers, which shall include but not be limited to the power to—

(1) appoint scholars, from the United States and abroad, and, where appropriate, provide stipends, grants, and fellowships to such scholars, and to hire or accept the voluntary services of consultants, advisory boards, and panels to aid the Board in carrying out its responsibilities;

(2) solicit, accept, and dispose of gifts, bequests, and devices of money, securities, and other property of whatsoever character for the benefit of the Center; any such money, securities, or other property shall, upon receipt, be deposited with the Smithsonian Institution, and unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, expenditures shall be in the discretion of the Board for the purposes of the Center;

(3) obtain grants from, and make contracts with. State, Federal, local, and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals;

(4) acquire such site as a location for the Center as may subsequently be authorized by the Congress;

(5) acquire, hold, maintain, use, operate, and dispose of any physical facilities, including equipment, necessary for the operation of the Center;

(fi) appoint and fix the compensation and duties of the director and such other of?.cers of the Center as may be necessary for the efficient administration of the Center; the director and two other officers of the Center may be appointed and compensated without regard to the provisions of title 5 of the United States Code governing appointments in the competitive service and chapter ">1 and 5 use 5101 subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 of the United States Code;

et seq , 5331 and

£i £££• (7) prepare plans and si>eci fixations for the Center, including

the design and development of all buildings, facilities, open spaces, and other structures on the site in consultation with the President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue, or its successor, and with other appropriate Federal and local agencies, such plans to include an exterior classic frieze memorial to Woodrow Wilson, (b) The Board shall, in connection with acquisition of any site authorized by Congress, as provided for in paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of this section, provide, to businesses and residents displaced from any such site, relocation assistance, including payments and other lx'nefits, equivalent to that authorized to displace businesses 63 Stat. 413. and residents under the Housing Act of 1949, as amended. The Board 42 use 1441 shall develop a relocation program for existing businesses and resi-

not 8« dents within the site and submit such program to the government of

the District of Columbia for a determination as to its adequacy and feasibility. In providing such relocation assistance and developing

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62 STAT. 1359

such relocation program the Hoard .shall utilize to the maximum extent I lie services and facilities of the appropriate Federal and local agencies.

ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 5. The Board is authorized to adopt an official seal which shall l>e judicially noticed and to make such bylaws, rides, and regulations as it deems necessary for the administration of its functions under this Act, including, among other matters, bylaws, rules, and regulations relating to the administration of its trust funds and the organization and procedure of the Board. A majority of the members of the Hoard shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

APPROPRIATION

Sec. t>. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Board such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act: /'lovidetf. That no more than $200,000 bhall be authorized for appropriation through fiscal year 1970 and no part of that appropriation shall !>e availame for construction purposes.

RECORDS AND AUDIT

Sec. 7. The. accounts of the Board shall be audited in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to, and as part of, the' audit of the other Federal and trust funds of the Smithsonian Institution.

Approved October 24, 1968.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

HOUSE HFP0RT No. 1942 accomparying H. R. 19988 (Comm. on House

Adrninistrat inn). SENATE REPORT No. 1599 (Comm. on Rules & Administration). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vcl. 114 (1968):

Oct. 3: Considered and passed Senate.

Oct. 7: Considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of

H. R. 19988. Oct. 11: Senate agreed to House amendment.

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