After ten bitter weeks of hearings and debate, the Senate finally came to grips with the Lilienthal appointment. Ohio’s John Bricker provided the opportunity. He had offered a motion to send the ...

THE JOURNALS OF DAVID E. LILIENTHAL. 1,400 pages. Harper & Row. $20. For 17 years, through Roosevelt’s New Deal and Truman’s Fair Deal. David Lilienthal rode the seas of controversy and survived.

THE first chairman (1946 to 1950) of the Atomic Energy Commission, David E. Lilienthal, startled the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last spring by declaring that he would not care to ...