Volume 22, Number 12 · July 17, 1975
How to Lie in Washington and Get Away With It
By Laurence Birns
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which behaved—under Fulbright's chairmanship—less abjectly than most other congressional committees during the Vietnam war, is getting back to its old ways under its new chairman, Senator Sparkman. On March 10, by a vote of sixteen to one, the committee recommended the confirmation of Nathaniel Davis as assistant secretary of state for African affairs and it unanimously approved Harry W. Shlaudeman as ambassador to Venezuela. The Senate confirmed both nominations the next day.
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