Word: claytor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brock Adams, the stubborn Secretary of Transportation. Carter has not yet settled on his successor, but his job will be filled temporarily by still another Southerner, W. Graham Claytor Jr., who was president of the Southern Railway Company until his appointment as Navy Secretary...
...Washington's Andrews Air Force Base and embraced his mother and his fiancee while his three beaming sisters looked on. Then, as a band launched into the Marines' Hymn, Sergeant Kenneth Kraus drew his 5-ft. 6-in. frame to proud attention. Navy Secretary W. Graham Claytor pinned the Navy Commendation Medal on his chest, and the Marine commandant, General Louis Wilson, awarded him a Purple Heart. Said Claytor: "You acted like a Marine should, and that's the finest thing...
Navy Secretary Claytor was horrified. He retorted to both Brown and Murray that this amounted to a "fundamental change in national strategy," and he resisted "the conclusion that a smaller and less capable Navy is somehow logical." Claytor got strong support from General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (whose term ends July 1), who denounced the tendency to make policy and strategy "secondary to programming and fiscal considerations...
...strategy with confidence of victory. With a twelve-carrier force [in a 525-ship fleet], it is worrisome." And a fleet smaller than this, according to some admirals, could mean a tacit wartime "abandonment" of some key allies, including Japan, Norway, Greece and Turkey. Declared Navy Secretary Claytor in a confidential memo to Defense Secretary Brown: A reduced fleet would "concede the Norwegian Sea 9 to the Soviets" and restrict us to "the defense of a sea lane from Norfolk to the English Channel." States Sea Plan 2000, an official Navy analysis of its needs...
...Navy maintains, however, that the builders share much of the blame for what it calls "cost growth." The admirals cite low worker productivity at the shipyards, long delays in deliveries from subcontractors and an uneconomical and unwise expansion of productive capacity. Nonetheless, Navy Secretary Claytor concedes that "there is enough blame for everyone concerned...