Word: nsc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symington sailed in to defend Vandenberg, the man who wasn't there. By indirection, Symington accused Charlie Wilson of failure to consult Vandenberg, the Air Force chief of staff, on the Air Force budget cuts. It was his understanding, said Symington, that at the time of the crucial NSC meeting, General Vandenberg had not yet been told that the planned slash in the defense budget would come almost entirely out of Air Force funds...
...concurred in the decision to withdraw the troops from Korea. Around the time of the Mac-Arthur report, State Department's Far East ern experts and policy planners (among them John Davies, whose role in Far Eastern policy is still controversial) worked up a new policy paper (NSC-8/2) for the National Security Council. In it, MacArthur's advice was misrepresented: he was quoted as saying that the combat readiness of the South Koreans justified complete U.S. withdrawal, while his warning that the South Koreans could not withstand invasion from the north was ignored...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff joined with the State Department in recommending withdrawal. This was in keeping with Truman's decision to reduce total U.S. ground forces, which were then down to 691,000 men. The National Security Council accepted, and Harry Truman signed NSC-8/2 on March...
...NSC. National Security Council. The nation's top agency for coordinating domestic, foreign and military policies affecting national security (TIME Feb 5) Chairman: President Truman. Executive Secretary: James...
...NSC now has before it nothing less than a reappraisal of basic U.S. attitudes and policies in world affairs. Events-Korea, the U.N. mess, Eisenhower's electrifying trip through Europe, the wage & price freeze-have overtaken the old policies and outrun the old pace of U.S. action. In a sense, the NSC is considering whether to advise Truman to adopt consciously, officially and essentially the broad policy to which he has already committed the U.S. by piecemeal actions...