Mark Warner: “I went to the Department of Defense early one morning around 7:30 or quarter to 8 and spent the better part of an hour…”

“I went to the Department of Defense early one morning around 7:30 or quarter to 8 and spent the better part of an hour with the Secretary of Defense and his top budget people. I wanted to make certain that if I were to formulate this amendment along those lines--I concede to the chairman that it was my idea, and it caught them a little bit by surprise--the Secretary said he would like to consider it. That he did. He went back in his own internal system and eventually he conveyed to me the message that the amendment as I have given him in draft form would be acceptable to him and the administration. I did concur that the calculations to be performed by the President's Office of Management and Budget would enable this amendment to authorize those funds.”