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...gives him control of all U.S. troops in the Atlantic area. And he is Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic-NATO's top sailor-which means that he must be versed in diplomacy as well as war. To this demanding post, President Johnson has appointed Four-Star Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, 53, the U.S.'s fastest-rising sailor...
Starting May 1, Moorer will succeed retiring Admiral Harold Page Smith. Taking over Moorer's job as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, will be Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, who, in turn, will give up his Seventh Fleet command to Rear Admiral Paul P. Blackburn, 56, the senior member of the United Nations Military Armistice Commission in Korea...
...Going." McNamara hurried back to his office and set the plans in motion. The Pentagon phoned Sharp. In turn, Sharp called the Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, stationed at nearby Makalapa Naval Base, told him: "We're going to clo it." Orders crackled through the Pacific as units of the Seventh Fleet were alerted. The carrier Constellation moved out of Hong Kong-about 500 miles from the Tonkin bases-with instructions to join the Ticonderoga as quickly as possible...
...Vice Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, 52, new Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, succeeding Sharp. Alabama-born Tommy Moorer, known in Pentagon corridors as "the man you always send for when you have a tough job," is already an odds-on favorite with many a top officer to become Chief of Naval Operations one day. "Hell," says one, "you could tell that when he was still at the academy." Assigned to the Pentagon in late 1960, Moorer sometimes exasperated Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his computer-minded whiz kids (whom he was fond of calling "the numbers-racket people...
...Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, new commander of the Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Chinese Communist mainland, succeeds Moorer. A handsome, icy-cool carrier officer, Johnson served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Hornet. Promoted to flag rank when he was only 49, he became the first skipper of the U.S.S. Forrestal when it was the largest carrier in the world. "He set the pattern of how these ships should be operated," says one top Navy officer, "and it has stuck ever since...