Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ERWIN N. GRISWOLD, 70, a former dean of Harvard Law School (1946-67) currently practicing law in Washington. As U.S. Solicitor General, a post he held from 1967 until 1973, Griswold presented the Government's unsuccessful Supreme Court case against publication of the Pentagon papers. He also argued before the Supreme Court that the Army's surveillance of civilians from 1967 to 1970 was legal, though "inappropriate." But Griswold refused to argue the Nixon Administration's appeal of a court decision requiring court orders before domestic radicals' telephones could be tapped. After that, he was forced...
...many top Air Force officers descended on Dayton's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that a bystander asked: "Who's back at the Pentagon running the shop?" Replied Air Force Chief of Staff General David Jones: "Even more would have come if they could have got away." The beribboned brass hats were there to honor the one man above all others who gave the U.S. Air Force its unchallenged technological superiority: Lockheed Aircraft's famed design chief, Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson, perhaps the most successful aviation innovator since Orville and Wilbur Wright...
...silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where SR-71s are based. When TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin noticed that an SR-71 on public display near Washington in 1973 bore no fewer than 42 habus, he inquired about those missions. The Pentagon responded by ordering all the emblems scrubbed...
...been flying over Hanoi. The long record of lies and cover-ups by the U.S. embassy in Saigon and the Defense Department made their responses--"nonsense" and "no comment," respectively--less than reassuring, particularly in view of other official U.S. response last week. Sure enough, later in the week, Pentagon officials acknowledged that U.S. planes were flying over North Vietnam, in violation of the peace agreement...
...Pentagon Papers showed so strikingly, it was the CIA Office of National Estimates which waged a lonely battle within the government throughout twenty years of Vietnam policy making, consistently issuing analyses more pessimistic than most other agencies. The tragedy of Vietnam is not that Presidents listened too much to the CIA, but that they did not listen enough...