Word: killian
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Both Huntington and Leach, however, voiced some skepticism. Leach thought that the defense budget would have to be raised to give Dr. Killian sufficient funds. Huntington pointed out that "these special assistants have a long tradition of futility and frustration since they are out of the official hierarchary...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, stated that "if Killian has the authority he must have for his job, he should be Secretary of Defense." Schlesinger added that "if that were the case, I cannot see what is left for the present Secretary to do, which shows us that we should not have a soap salesman as Secretary of Defense...
Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, agreed that "Killian's effectiveness in his new post will be largely determined by the amount of governmental access he is granted, and by the budgetary limits which are set on his work...
...added, however, that "Mr. Killian would not have accepted the post if he were not assured of strong support...
...proposals themselves are a step in the right direction but, unless subsequent definition gives the new appointees more independence and support, they will fall into the tangle of interservice rivalry and irrational economizing which has already put us behind. Killian will need full Presidential backing without which his plans would succumb to inevitable Pentagon opposition...