Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace" issue in last year's campaign. For fully a month, despite Ike's call for speed, Senate Democrats nitpicked their way through the resolution, pausing for rhetoric, savoring revenge as they harpooned Dulles at every opportunity (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.). By last week, when the joint committee sat down to draft its version, the Democrats had made themselves look irresponsibly partisan. Then earnest, honest Mike Mansfield stepped in to the rescue...
...with all this, Mansfield left the resolution basically undamaged for external consumption. It would still fulfill Ike's purpose. To make that point unmistakably clear, the committee declared: "Let there be no doubt. Although the joint committee was sharply divided as to the proper constitutional processes, it was not divided at all as to the substantive policy announced by the President of using armed force, if necessary, to help nations in the Middle East resist overt Communist aggression...
...Force's General Nathan Twining, navy blue for the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke, brown for the Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate, and a nonsymbolic black for the fifth man-the quiet man -four-star Admiral Arthur William Radford, 60, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military adviser to the President. Before these five military officers also lies an awesome agenda. It can sweep across the types and size of next year's H-bomb production, this year's first test flight of an experimental intercontinental ballistic missile, every year...
Nine times out of ten the Joint Chiefs reach agreement and pass their recommendations upward to civilian authority for the final decisions, a red line slashed across the bottom of each of the white policy papers to signify J.C.S. agreement. When the Chiefs disagree, it is the job of the chairman, Admiral Radford, to press them, gently or not gently, or to report the disagreement to his civilian boss, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. "What do you think, Raddy?" Wilson will then invariably ask. Invariably, Radford will produce a written reply, saying, "Here are a few thoughts...
...donkey work of their jobs. Admiral Radford, a rugged (6 ft. 163 lbs.) man with sharp blue eyes and close-cropped sandy-grey hair, was once a zealous apostle of naval aviation who delighted in baffling battleship admirals and big-bomber generals alike. But Radford has grown in the Joint Chiefs as he has grown into all of his career responsibilities, and he now yields to nobody in his understanding and specific knowledge of the best military-diplomatic interest of the U.S. Items...