Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission testifies on June 2, 1954, before the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee. Strauss's later confirmation hearings for commerce secretary ...

What was supposed to be a confirmation hearing on the qualifications of Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be Secretary of Commerce turned out last week to be an ...

Lewis Strauss, rejected by the Senate in 1959 as President Dwight Eisenhower’s choice to serve as secretary of commerce after an epic confirmation battle, died on this day in 1974 at Brandy ...

Did JFK Oppose Lewis Strauss ... the case against Adm. Strauss' confirmation for this position became stronger as it was considered more intensively. I read large portions of the hearings before ...

Lewis Strauss oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. They often disagreed on subjects, namely whether or not the US should construct the hydrogen bomb. Strauss ...

Lewis Strauss, played by Robert ... 1947 and was intensified by Oppenheimer humiliating Strauss during a public hearing in 1949 about ... lobbying against the confirmation due to his actions in ...

Once upon a time the U.S. Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee sat down to begin hearings on the confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and ...

At 35 minutes past midnight on this day in 1959, after two months of hearings, the Senate, by a vote of 49-46, refused to confirm Strauss. Eisenhower called that day “the second most shameful ...

This leads to Lewis Strauss actively targeting Oppenheimer later in his life via the intense AEC hearing. And finally, at the end of Oppenheimer , Strauss' hatred of Oppenheimer prevents him from ...

Strauss finds himself at the center of his own U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, ... Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).