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Laird is expected soon to appoint an unprecedented official commission, including people from outside the Pentagon, to review the strategic priorities for the next few decades. To forestall any doubts about the commission's findings, the chairmanship will probably go to a prominent outsider, perhaps a journalist. Any new Administration could be expected to take at least a perfunctory reappraisal of the nation's military posture. Under attack, Nixon's men seem to be taking seriously the need for a genuine and comprehensive review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Polishing the Brass | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...events as they saw them. The next day the Senior Class began drafting its statement as a reply to President Quincy's circular. But the Board of Overseers also entered the engagement by appointing a committee to look into the affair. The report of this committee under the chairmanship of former President John Quincy Adams, a relative of Josiah Quincy, was an indictment of the Senior Class circular...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: It Happened at Harvard: The Story of a Freshman Named Maxwell | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...earliest possible time, this Committee should consult with the President concerning the appointment, possibly as a University Professor, of a distinguished scholar deeply concerned with Afro-American Studies and identified with the black American experience and community. The person appointed to this Professorship should be invited to assume the Chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro-American Studies-What's Going On Here? | 4/21/1969 | See Source »

...second recommendation authorizes the standing Faculty Committee to "... consult with the President concerning the appointment, possibly as a University Professor, of a distinguished scholar deeply concerned with Afro-American Studies and identified with the black American experience and community. The person appointed... should be invited to assume the Chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Studies and Power | 4/16/1969 | See Source »

...post by General Maxwell Taylor, Wheeler was assigned to give weekly briefings to John Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign. The one-time West Point mathematics instructor's presentations impressed Kennedy, and he was appointed Army Chief of Staff in 1962. When Taylor stepped down from the chairmanship two years yater, Wheeler took over. By law, he should have held the job for only two two-year terms, but Congress gave him an unprecedented extension requested by President Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Military View--From the Top and from the Ranks | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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