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...ship. Captain Raymond E. Peet, 41, an Annapolis graduate ('43) with a master of science degree from M.I.T., was one of the officers hand-picked and trained by Admiral Hyman Rickover to operate the nuclear Navy. During World War II, Peet was a gunnery officer in Admiral Arleigh Burke's famed "Little Beaver" squadron of destroyers in the Pacific. Later he was Burke's aide for two years, when the man who handled a destroyer like a hot-rod became Chief of Naval Operations. To get ready for the Bainbridge, Peet had a year of special training...
...early days of the New Frontier, it was the Administration's censorship of a tough anti-Communist speech by Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh A. Burke that set off the whole dispute about the "muzzled military." Last week, now retired and thoroughly unmuzzled, Admiral Burke appeared before the Daughters of the American Revolution and delivered a speech that would have had the Pentagon's censors desperately clawing for their blue pencils. Burke's theme: "America and the West in general have a guilt complex about power." The complex, said Burke, derives from the "fundamental unreality" of seeking...
Enter Walker. When the Kennedy Administration took over, it made evident that it was going to crack down on military talkers. The first victim was Chief of Naval Operations, Arleigh Burke. A routine anti-Communist Burke speech was heavily cut by Pentagon censors on grounds that it might roil negotiations for the release of two U.S. RB-47 flyers held prisoner in the Soviet Union. In the week that followed, lesser military leaders submitting speeches for clearance got them back heavily blue-penciled. Finally, last spring, the controversy blew wide open with the Walker case...
...that unless U.S. air power was brought forward, the men on the beach were doomed. He asked that Boxer's planes be brought into the battle. Rusk still would not have this. Several others were also opposed, including the President's personal staffers. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke vouched for the worth of Bissell's proposition. The outcome of the meeting was a singular compromise. Jets from Boxer would provide cover next morning for exactly one hour, long enough for the ships to run into the shore and start unloading and for the remaining...
...issue, four men are tagged with the fatal word. Danny Kaye is referred to as an "old (48) Mittyslicker." Admiral Arleigh Burke, retiring while still capable of exercising his wit, is dubbed the "old king of the cans (59)." And Prince Philip, of all people, turns up as an "old Naval person"-a title hitherto reserved for one whose undeniable claims upon it were immortalized by his correspondence with an American president...