Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson also admitted that he had a "pretty fair conviction" of how the competition between the Air Force and Navy's air arm should be decided. Anyone who objected, he said, "would have a chance to argue me out of that conclusion in the next couple of days." After that anyone who still disagreed would get out. Said Johnson: "There will just not be room for them around the Pentagon and I told the three secretaries that...
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
...even Louis Johnson knew that he could get no real unification without some law-changing by Congress. At week's end, as a starter, the President signed a bill creating a $10,000 post, Under Secretary of Defense, for his chief administrative assistant. But armed-services committees in both houses of Congress and their gold-braided pals in the armed forces were still balking at bills which would make the Secretary of Defense the absolute boss of the services as well as their titular head...
Harry Truman missed no chance to let the boys know that bygones were bygones. Displaying some herniated Latin at a dinner for Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Truman mentioned the old Roman cry: "Delenda est Carthago!" (Carthage must be destroyed). Some Senators had cried "Delenda est Trumano!"-said the President, but "I am happy to say that I have no ill feeling towards those gentlemen who would like to have delenda...
...could be earned out. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the convocation was that it heard no boosters of the 20th Century's high towers and great deeds. Yet a quiet optimism persisted. British Scientist Sir Henry Tizard, quoting the remark a school friend once made to Samuel Johnson, summed up the spirit of the conference: "I too have tried to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness kept breaking...