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ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
2.
SERVICA"
waiver legislation for the Nimitz Commission promptly and wi thout
hesitation.
Certainly neither the President nor Congress should
be limited, in their choice of persons to conduct such an inquiry
as you called upon the Nimitz Commission to make, to office holders,
civil servants and members of Congress. At times it is desirable,
and it was in the present case, to obtain an outside point of view,
and to seek the part-time services of private citizens, men of large
affairs and wide interests and experience, men not on the government
payroll, including lawyers in active practise and company officers,
who cannot and should not altogether divorce themselves from their
private affairs to undertake a brief and temporary government service.
Indeed it was I suppose precisely because the question was whether
legislation of Congress and the administration of the Executive
Departments, in regard to internal security and individual rights,
left something to be desired, that you sought to obtain an outside
point of view from persons detached from the ordinary business of
government, and appointed a commission including such busy private
citizens. In such a case surely a waiver of the conflict-of-interest
statutes is fully justified.
Much the same is true of the lawyers and experts who
should be employed by such a Commission. It should not be limited to
Government employees or to elderly persons, retired from active life,
to academic persons, and to persons whose law practise, or practise
as experts, is so restricted that, in these days when the Government
has its eyes on everyman's business and its hands in everyman's pockets,
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