Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, answered charges and innuendoes-based on the contention of Carl Vinson, true boss of his committee-that the plan would eventually lead to 1) elimination of the three separate services, 2) development of a Prussian general staff system or maybe a czar, and 3) the dissolution of the powers of Congress itself. Congress, said McElroy quietly, need have no concern about losing its legitimate power over the Defense Department. "The present authority of the Secretary of Defense is very large," said he. "Yet it is subject to the checks and balances...
...have long to wait for a Niagara from the man who has long rained over military matters in Congress: Georgia's seasoned, sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, 74, member of the House for 43 years, chairman of the old House Naval Affairs Committee for 16 years, and unchallenged czar of the Armed Services Committee for seven of the eleven years of its life...
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...Eisenhower for battle that he forswore his customary distaste for a news conference, and stayed in town to hold one last week. When the reorganization questions popped, he poured it on. First off, he knocked down the recurrent complaints that the new plan (TIME, April 14) would make a czar out of the Defense Secretary. "Let's look at the built-in constitutional guards that there are," said he. "A commander in chief over the Secretary of Defense [who in turn] is certainly not going to be very effective if four chiefs of staff are not supporting him very...
...idea of making a czar out of anybody! Usually, they have always tried to do it about a military man. Now they found that wasn't very profitable because . . . they couldn't find a single military man in modern history, not to say American history, but in modern history, except in certain of the Latin American countries. Hitler and Mussolini were not soldiers; and Bismarck, who was almost a dictator until Wilhelm II came along-he was a civilian. So they gave up that argument, and now they are talking about a civilian czar...