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With Admiral Arleigh Burke's term as Chief of Naval Operations expiring this August, Pentagon and press speculation about a successor for weeks had covered almost the whole range between John Paul Jones and the coxswain of the Harvard crew. But last week, when the new CNO finally got nominated by President Kennedy, he turned out to be the admiral who had been the leading and most logical candidate all along: Vice Admiral George Whelan Anderson Jr., 54, commander of the U.S.'s Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet...
...Pentagon "conference" of nearly 100 of the Navy's top-ranking flag officers was laid on principally to give new Navy Secretary John B. Connally Jr. an opportunity to seek out candidates for the big promotion. Admiral Arleigh Burke's third term as Chief of Naval Operations expires in August, and an intensive search for his successor is already under way. One of the top contenders, Sixth Fleet Commander George W. Anderson Jr., could not leave his job long enough to make the trip...
...President got a big laugh at his press conference when he said that a recent muscle-flexing interview given by Admiral Arleigh Burke had been given before inauguration day, and thus predated the Kennedy directive requiring such comments to be cleared by the White House. "This," said Kennedy, "makes me happier than ever that such a directive has gone out." To some Washington hands, the crack grated as a needless rasp for the Navy's capable chief, who was a distinguished combat commander when Jack Kennedy was learning to run PT boats...
...sharpest critics had to admit that for better or worse he was bringing uncommon vigor to his presidential clerkship. His staff and his Cabinet had long since accepted him as an active boss who would not hesitate to order the toning down of a speech by tough-minded Admiral Arleigh Burke, to personally dress down an aide responsible for a critical news leak...
President Kennedy's action last fortnight in ordering Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke to rewrite almost completely a speech that minced no words about Russia brought press growls from several quarters. Said the New York Daily News: "Such suppressions can only stir up rumors, gossip and exaggerated guesses as to what the muzzled persons would say if permitted to talk...