Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES M. DECKER The Reformed Church of Deerpark Port Jervis...
...Lyman Lemnitzer and the uniformed heads of each of the services. The talk turned from the defense budget to streamlining the Army's organization. Time and again, when proposals were made, the President insisted on having them spelled out, and kept pressing Army Chief of Staff George H. Decker for confirmation: "Is this what you want? Are you sure?" Finally it was agreed that Regular Army strength, would be upped from 14 divisions to 16. with the extra funds coming from cutbacks of some eight National Guard or Reserve divisions. Other changes approved by the President included a move...
This evaluation is specifically applicable to such officers as Generals Lemnitzer and Decker, whom your article mentions critically but whom I consider first-rate, loyal, forceful and competent military leaders...
...from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy have made little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president of the University of West Virginia, has yet to learn...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...