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...Ridgway fought publicly for a bigger budget for conventional warfare-and was eased out of the Pentagon. General Taylor, Ridgway's successor, waged a behind-the-scenes battle-and resigned in 1959 in frustration. Next came two men who have been criticized for their lack of drive. General Lyman ("Lem") Lemnitzer, 62, a brilliant staff officer with little combat experience, served as Army Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy have made little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer...
Still another series of The Adams Papers, according to Lyman Butterfield, lecturer on History and Editor of the series, is now in active production. This is the Adams Family Correspondence, running continuously from the courtship letters of John Abegail Adams in 1762 to the death in 1989 of another Abigail, the wife of Charles Francis Adams. The family correspondence is expected to run to some 20 volumes...
...Project, directed by Lyman Butterfield of the Harvard History Department, involves the publication of personal, family and public papers of three generations of Adamses: (1) the letters and autobiographies (he wrote two) of John Adams, already completed; (2) the diary of John Quincy Adams, which will require 30 volumes, and for which no editor has been named yet; and (3) the diary of Charles Francis Adams. With family correspondence and public papers and addresses, the Project will probably publish 100 volumes. The papers were donated to the Society by members of the Adams family, and the Belknap Press...
Pinched Pentagon. In April, Kennedy was even prepared to fire Army General Lyman ("Lena") Lemnitzer, the tradition-bound chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The President was ready to give the job to Taylor. But Politician Kennedy quickly foresaw the outcry that would surely roil both the Pentagon and Capitol Hill; he decided instead to put Taylor on his personal staff...
...General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke for the Pentagon. Before Lemnitzer went on the Senate grill, it was widely reported that the Joint Chiefs presented President Kennedy with a written, signed approval of the Bay of Pigs operation. The rebuttal prepared for delivery by Lemnitzer blamed the subsequent failure on the withholding of key information by civilians. After hearing Lemnitzer, Tennessee's Albert Gore stalked out with an angry demand that all the Chiefs of Staff "be replaced by new, wiser and abler...