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...civilians who ever came to work in the five-ring circus of the Pentagon, none was more roundly disliked as a matter of principle than handsome, brainy Wilfred James McNeil. The reason was understandable enough: McNeil, hand-picked in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal to be the new National Military Establishment's first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget...
Last week Wilfred McNeil, 58, burdened with the problem of supporting the five children (all under eight years old) of his Navy flyer son, who was killed recently in a carrier crash (another son is an Air Force B-52 pilot), turned in his resignation. Then he announced that in November he will become president of Grace Line...
...mark of his achievements, in the careful handling of no less than $375 billion, that Washington and the Pentagon hated to see him go. Said New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "Wilfred McNeil literally has saved the taxpayers of America billions of dollars. And yet comparatively few people in this country have ever heard of him." Wrote President Eisenhower last week to "Dear Mac": "All Americ?, joins me in saying to you, well done...
...George McNeil sounds a note of caution: "Perhaps we need a reactive motive, some restraining influence to compress creative energy antecedent to its spontaneous and meaningful discharge...
...talks with the President and a constant stream of Pentagon interviews about prospective recruits for Defense. Administration leaders grimly watched him hunt hardest for a successor rather than a new deputy. A deputy could be picked from among the seasoned hands, e.g., Assistant Defense Secretary (Comptroller) Wilfred McNeil, or the Air Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects: AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime Air Force Under Secretary; Presidential Assistant (for National Security) Gordon Gray, onetime Army Secretary; retired General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower...