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WS Commission, David E. Lilienthal, Nominee for Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, seated listening as Sen. Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) questions him / CU Lilienthal listening as McKellar questions: "You have never urged the appointment of any individual. Did you so testify or not?" / CU Lilienthal SOT: "Yes, I did, I would like to check that against the record, but I do recall that I stated that you never urged any appointment."; McKellar interrupts, saying as CU Lilienthal frowns at the question: "And yet, have not your publicity people to which you pay $150,000 a year out of the Government's till from the TVA receipts, (unintelligible) denounced me in the last several weeks, time and again, for being a patronage monger, and that I ought to get the patronage of the TVA? You know of your own knowledge that is false, don't you?" / CU SOT Lilienthal answers: "I will simply stand on the statement that you had not, since our first meeting in discussion of this subject, urged any appointment on me. It is, of course, true, as I stated in these hearings that the Senator has recommended many people to the TVA. And I also stated that that in itself is neither improper nor inappropriate." / MS photographers taking picture of Lilienthal as he speaks / WS commission