Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denfeld's outburst startled a few people. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hurried from the room, speechless. General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tore up his prepared statement and started over again. The Army hastily summoned Chief of Staff General Joe Lawton Collins back from Japan to testify in rebuttal. This week, too, the Air Force would at last have...
...Navy felt it was outnumbered on the Joint Chiefs of Staff; time after time General Omar Bradley and the Air Force's Hoyt Vandenberg voted 2 to i against the Navy's Denfeld. The Navy also had no confidence in the leadership of Navy Secretary Matthews, who was Johnson's choice. Matthews cheerily admitted, when he took office that he had never commanded anything bigger than a rowboat...
...Military Committee promptly got down to work the next day under Chairman Omar Bradley, head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...calmer the American people take this, the better," declared the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Omar Bradley. "We have anticipated it for four years and it calls for no change in our basic defense plans." That was true. But there was an enormous difference between "tomorrow" and "now" and the armed forces were the first who would have to readjust their timing. Minutes after the news flash whipped through the Pentagon's interlaced corridors, officers were hastily pulling papers from confidential files, and translating future strategy into plans for the present...
While he was gone, embarrassing questions began to crop up. Was it essential for General Omar Bradley to go pheasant hunting in a special Air Force plane? Was it vital to national defense for Navy Secretary Francis Matthews to fly his whole family to a military ceremony in Honolulu? Did Vice President Alben Barkley have to use a B-17 to take a three-piece band to a party for his St. Louis friend, Mrs. Carleton Hadley...