Word: nsc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, Secretaries of State and Defense and the chairman of the National Security Resources Board (Stuart Symington), and says that the President can add others. As regular members, Truman has added Mobilizer Charles Wilson, Advisers Averell Harriman and Sidney Souers, General Omar Bradley, Intelligence Chief Bedell Smith and the NSC's secretary, James S. Lay, 39, an alert administrator who before World War II was a sales manager for the Hagerstown Gas Co. in Hagerstown...
Policy & Action. Formally, the NSC can decide nothing. Harry Truman decides. But Truman's attention is most sharply focused on the great issues of war or peace, appeasement or resistance, "containment" of Communism or retaliation, when he is sitting, on Wednesday afternoon, with the NSC...
...NSC 68. With a much clearer eye, in January 1949 the new Secretary had faced Western Europe. Dean Gooderham Acheson, son of an Anglican cleric, graduate of Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School, could understand the West...
There was consternation in Washington. The President ordered State and Defense to re-examine U.S. positions around the globe and report to him exactly what needed to be done. Acheson himself was named boss of the project, which finally produced a massive document dubbed NSC (for National Security Council) 68. Among 68's recommendations were the creation of vast armaments, the spending of tens of billions annually. Louis Johnson took a horrified look and repaired to his corner, where he sulked over what was being done to his economy program. While he sulked, while the military's budgeting...
...problem the NSC had wrestled with before. As long ago as last January, the policymakers had drawn the broad outlines of U.S. action in case of Korean invasion: the quick recourse to the United Nations Security Council and the dispatch of arms aid (which the President had set in motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy...