Word: aire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once Stung. Only once during the week did Candidate Nixon get into the give and take of partisan politics. Then, stung by Democratic Presidential Candidate Stuart Symington's criticism of Administration missile and space policies, Nixon replied: "While he was Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There...
Facing an air reserve officers' seminar in Washington last fortnight, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who means what he says and says what he means, tossed aside his staff-drafted notes and growled, "I don't want to offer you platitudes." Whereupon LeMay, longtime (1948-57) boss of the Strategic Air Command, now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, proceeded into blunt analysis of the role of reserve and National Guard outfits in modern defense establishment. By last week, with the angry replies coming in. Curt LeMay may have wished he had stuck to platitudes...
...Air Force is faced with certain budgetary limitations which will require drastic and perhaps unpalatable decisions," LeMay told the air reservists. "These decisions must be made with one purpose in mind-to produce the greatest combat capability within the dollars and resources available. As weapons complexities continue to increase, the possibility of their being maintained and operated with a high degree of efficiency by other than members of the active establishment will decrease . . . Looking ahead, I can see the need for only one air reserve component. I personally do not believe we need both the Air National Guard...
...star. The militiamen, holding their national convention in San Antonio last week, cheered Texas Governor Price Daniel's charge that LeMay is an enemy of states' rights-"the typical Federal-minded bureaucrat that thinks the Federal Government has to run everything." The association brushed aside Air Force Secretary James Douglas' conciliatory telegram explaining that Le May had intended only to "stimulate dynamic thinking...
...truth," said the National Guard Association in a resolution passed by roaring voice vote. "The National Guard is always receptive to honest, constructive criticism and is opposed to petty, unfounded, destructive criticism tending to mislead the American public." Key clause in the resolution: a request that the Air Force investigate LeMay's qualifications to hold general rank. While that was plainly preposterous, the fact remained that Curt LeMay, distinguished air officer, had made in the National Guard Association a powerful enemy that would certainly do its best to block him from ever becoming Air Force Chief of Staff...