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First of all, Lyndon Johnson was concerned whether Holaday had "the facilities that truly make you a director in charge of missiles or whether you just have the title." Asked to define his duties, Holaday said: "I would act more like a vice president of a corporation." Then, after a vague explanation of what a corporation vice president might do, Holaday asked hopefully: "Does that help?" Replied Subcommittee Counsel Edwin Weisl bleakly...
...Despite Holaday's belief that the Atlas program is in pretty good shape, a more realistic estimate came in a letter to the subcommittee from a man with more knowledge of Atlas than any that William Holaday had displayed. Wrote James R. Dempsey, manager of the Atlas program for Convair: "The present planning of the Government for ... the Atlas as currently known to us is less than it could be, and if we correctly understand the Soviet accomplishments in the ballistic missile field, the present Atlas program will tend to widen rather than close the gap between...
...Missile Director Holaday's testimony accurately reflects the kind of top management the U.S. missile program has been getting, the Senate Subcommittee clearly has its work cut out for it. And the high civilian command in the Pentagon is likely to be hopping busily from spot to hot spot...
...Department must find a way to become an operational as well as a policymaking body in such grey areas as missile development. McElroy has promised a single manager for new space programs. Another critical problem is the increasing demand for an effective missile "czar," since neither Missile Director William Holaday nor Presidential Science Adviser James Killian has yet fulfilled that role...
...Pentagon last week: the Air Force's brand-new Directorate of Astronautics, launched only three days before to plan the Air Force's space and space-weapons projects, e.g., contramissiles, space satellites, space platforms. The Air Force, charged the Pentagon's Missile Chief William M. Holaday, had "jumped the gun" and had been trying to "grab the limelight and establish a position." Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted that the Directorate of Astronautics had indeed been set up "prematurely" and "contrary to assurances." oint was that the Pentagon intends soon ) set up its own Advanced Research...