President Eisenhower replied: “Well, I didn’t know that anyone had alleged that he [Wenzell] was the initiator, because no such statement has ever been made to me.
“But what I have done is this: I have gotten back Mr. Dodge, who was Director of the Budget when all this was done, when the 1954, I believe, policy on this statement, on this whole proposition was made, and he is going now before one of the committees.”
The President turned to Press Secretary James C. Hagerty to ask: “Isn’t that correct?”
Hagerty answered, “Yes, sir.”
The President continued: “He [Dodge] is going down before one of the committees with instruction to do this: to tell every possible item that has anything whatsoever to bear on Dixon-Yates, and see whether we can get the whole list of information properly coordinated and placed before the people that are investigating it.”
President Eisenhower still had not answered the question relative to whether he knew that his August 1954 order on complete disclosure on Dixon-Yates had been violated. I followed up the question of Garnett Horner:
“I hate to go back to Dixon-Yates again, but there was one thing I don’t think was completely clear. There were some AEC officials, Mr. Fields and Mr. Cook, who testified that Mr. Wenzell’s name was knowingly eliminated from the Dixon-Yates chronology; and, of course, they stated this was on the recommendations of the Bureau of the Budget.
“I wonder if you knew anything of this, and if you did know of it, if you would like to comment on whether you thought it was important.”
[On July 21, 1955, Kenneth E. Fields, general manager, Atomic Energy Commission, and Richard W. Cook, deputy general manager, Atomic Energy Commission, testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Fields identified Cook as the man who prepared the chronology.
“The Bureau of the Budget suggested that we leave them (the names of Wenzell and Miller) out,” Cook said in answer to a question from Senator Joseph O’Mahoney.