Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lead? The President understood well as he faced the Congress, the Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the diplomatic corps that he was facing a critical test. During the seven weeks he spent drafting the first address of 1958-probably the most important of his five years in the White House-the President and his works had been under heavy attack, and he knew the nation's temper. (Wrote New York Timesman Arthur Krock the day before the address: "The question is: Can and will he fully and firmly lead the U.S., and hence the free world?") Moving...
...parts of its current package proposal. Under Stassen's plan, the U.S. would agree to an end to nuclear testing, would not insist on an end at the same time to production of nuclear materials for weapons. Dulles stood aside while Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining turned down the proposal, backed by AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson-and Dwight Eisenhower. Where the defeat left Honest Harold, no one was sure. Powerful Administration staffers hoped he would quit rather than be fired. But, said a Washington acquaintance: "His soundings...
These minor government officials, he told a meeting of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, can hold up millions of dollars in defense work even after it has been approved by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Defense chief told newsmen "my principal military consultants" will be Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and two retired officers who held that job previously--Adm. Arthur W. Radford and Gen. Omar Bradley. McElroy said they have agreed to help him. Other consultants will represent civilian viewpoints, but McElroy said he isn't ready to name them...
...Harvard professors expressed their criticisms of the Administration's fiscal policies in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report...