Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give the U.S. the power of action, the President proposed a tremendous increase in the authority of the Secretary of Defense. Bypassing the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries, the Defense Secretary would command the armed services directly through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though emphatically subordinate to the civilian Defense Secretary and the civilian President, the Joint Chiefs would have the kind of direct operational control over the fighting forces that they have in wartime, would, in effect, outrank the cadres of civilian service secretaries and assistant secretaries who have laid a heavy bureaucratic hand on peacetime operations...
...Appeal. Into the plan's making went three months of hard work by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. service chiefs, former commanders. Congressmen, civilian experts, a staff of advisers-and by General Eisenhower. Fortnight ago McElroy began sending his conclusions to the President, who took the recommendations as raw material, retooled them in the shape of his own convictions on military organization. Almost every paragraph bristles with Ike's first person singular, e.g., "I have long been aware . . ." "I have directed . . ." "I therefore propose . . ." Many conclusions are based directly on his service as World War II Supreme Allied Commander...
From the President's office went the order to begin. Legislation was prepared, calling for civilian control over the U.S. space program except in specific areas of military endeavor. Scientific space-administration would, in the plan, be handled by a new agency comprised of members, of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and other top civilian figures, under NACA Director Hugh L. Dryden. For a starter, the Defense Department laid aside $8,000,000 and started plans for the first series of lunar probes. The Army will undertake one, perhaps two, using modified Jupiter rockets; the Air Force, with...
Principally, the President's optimism was based on his hope that the economy would soon be feeling the impact of wide-ranging Government antirecession measures. Last week he asked Congress to authorize immediate expenditure of half the funds requested in his 1959 budget for civilian agency supplies and equipment, e.g., desks, paper clips. Promptly okayed by the House Appropriations Committee, the measure will enable the Administration to pay out or commit some $840 million that otherwise would not be touchable until after midyear...
...manager) were on hand to record every detail. Abetted by space-conscious Army brass, reporters gathered brief quotes at every step from reveille to taps (sample: "I had a good night's sleep, and I decided to get up"), gleefully watched the Presley poll being pared by a civilian barber, snapped for posterity US 53310761-whose normal garb runs to cat boots, loud sports jackets and open-necked shirts-in a singularly unpressed set of fatigues...