Word: cno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first voyage under the polar icecap, to head up the not-yet-existent National Service Corps, sometimes referred to as the domestic Peace Corps. Until such time as Congress passes the President's National Service Corps bill, Anderson-no kin to Admiral George Anderson, who was fired as CNO the same day-will serve as a "presidential consultant" on the project. > Telephoned greetings to Harry Truman on his 79th birthday. > Told his midweek press conference that he was "not hopeful" about the prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement with Russia. > Let it be known that he had rented...
...commissioned Yorktown (the first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer of the Sixth Fleet. That same year, General Eisenhower, who was setting up his SHAPE headquarters in Paris, wired CNO Forrest Sherman: SEND ME THE SMART EST NAVAL AVIATOR YOU'VE GOT. Ike got Anderson, made him senior U.S. officer for plans and operations...
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...
...CNO Ahoy...
Along with his orders, Red Raborn got a letter, a blunt, forceful document which was a rarity in the annals of the Navy, signed by the CNO himself. "If Rear Admiral Raborn runs into any difficulty with which I can help," wrote Admiral Burke, "I will want to know about it at once, along with his recommended course of action ... If more money is needed, we will get it. If he needs more people, those people will be ordered in. If there is anything that slows this project up beyond the capacity of the Navy and the department, we will...