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More Power for Killian Urged...
...into contact with experts in every field of governmental activity. One recent week, surveying the scope of U.S. missile programs and potentialities. Nixon talked to Air Force Missile Chief Bernard Schriever, Army Rockets Boss John Medaris, Army Scientist Wernher Von Braun, Physicist Edward Teller and Presidential Science Adviser Killian. That same week he surprised Dr. James G. Miller, head of the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute, with his knowledge of behavioral science (Nixon is convinced that the U.S. is substantially ahead of Russia in the field). All the time he was acquiring such knowledge, Nixon brought...
...James Harold Doolittle, is a notable all-round man -engineer (doctor of science, M.I.T., 1925), topflight air commander in World War II, executive (a director and vice president of Shell Oil Co.). and one of the clearest voices in the field of defense. M.I.T.'s Dr. James R. Killian, who is also a member of the committee, still remains the presidential eyes and ears on the subject. But as a presidential committee, the scientists will be able to deal more directly with the President, and will be able to approach the Pentagon and Congress with more authority and more...
...Neil McElroy. Missileman William M. Holaday, explained the Defense Secretary, is missile "director," and "I consider that I am easily accessible to him when he needs the power that I happen to possess.'' As for President Eisenhower's new missile adviser, M.I.T.'s Dr. James Killian: "I do not believe it was intended at any point for Dr. Killian to come into the Defense Department for order-giving, and I do not believe that he thinks...
...many people believed that President Eisen-hower announced just such a reorganization in his televised speech on the missiles program. One Boston newspaper ran a vast headline which declared, "KILLIAN APPOINTED MISSILES CZAR." While Killian is an adviser of some sort, he is certainly not a missile czar. Nor, for that matter, is William Holaday, special assistant on guided missiles to the Secretary of Defense, a missile-czar. At best, Holaday represents an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy by adding another bureau-crat. Neither he nor Killian can do anything more than advise the already over-advised...