Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President a note saying that Dulles had arrived and was waiting in the President's office. The President adjourned the meeting and walked back to his office with Vice President Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining, and a squad of other experts...
...would probably not be in this predicament had it let Britain, France and Israel finish off Nasser at the time of Suez. Montana's Mike Mansfield, acting Senate Democratic leader, and Arkansas' Bill Fulbright wanted the U.S. to act through the U.N. in some sort of joint effort. Finally, House Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke up: "Mr. President, what I want to know is, do you realize the implications of the step you are taking? I want to ask, if you go this far, are you prepared...
...take early action we are much less liable to be involved in a major way than if we hesitate now and become involved later. I realize the potentialities, and naturally, when I go into this thing I am prepared to go through with it." General Twining, speaking for the Joint Chiefs, supplied the clincher: The Pentagon leaders, he said, "are unanimous in their opinion that this is the only sound course of action...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. The J.C.S., elevated to new operational status, in effect commands the armed forces under the President and the Defense Secretary. Recognizing this broadened role, the bill enlarges the J.C.S.'s Joint Staff from 210 officers to 400, and, while shying from any idea of a general staff, effectively makes the J.C.S. chairman more powerful than he had ever been by giving him power to assign duties to the Joint Staff. The bill also authorizes the three service chiefs who are J.C.S. members to delegate their service duties-but not responsibilities-to their vice chiefs...
Next step: a joint conference to smooth out the differences between the House and Senate versions...