Word: pentagon
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These savings are Pentagon nickels and dimes compared with the sums involved in one of the key decisions immediately facing Carter: whether or not to build the supersonic B-l bomber, at a projected cost of $22.9 billion for a fleet of 244. Ford has ordered production to start on the first three, but Carter can scrap that plan any time in the first half of 1977. During the campaign he opposed production of the B-l "at this time" but wanted R. and D. to continue while he rethought the future need for manned bombers. His decision will shape...
First Carter named as Defense Secretary Harold Brown, president of the California Institute of Technology, who headed weapons research at the Pentagon in the McNamara years. In his final session, after a quick trip to Chicago for the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley, Carter named three more old hands. To run Health, Education and Welfare, Carter recruited Joseph Califano, Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy chief. To head the energy agency that he hopes to expand into a Cabinet department, Carter chose his house Republican, James Schlesinger, whose resume is getting to be as lengthy as Elliot Richardson...
Brown's choice as Defense Secretary pleased many bureaucrats at both the Pentagon and State Department. Some military men regard him as too "soft," but others see him as an effective administrator with a superb grasp of weapons systems. As one of his first official acts, Brown is expected-but not certain-to advise Carter to go ahead with production of at least some B-l bombers. Says a friend of Brown's: "He wants to maintain a strong defense, but without hatchet-waving histrionics." At the same time, Brown will push hard to break the current impasse...
...nonsmoker and only drinks an occasional Tom Collins. He has a close-knit family life with his wife Colene and daughters Deborah, 21, and Ellen, 20. Every morning he swims laps in his backyard pool for precisely 30 minutes. Reserved in public, Brown can be arrogant. But Pentagon officials approvingly recall that during the '60s he got along well with uniformed officers and Congressmen after overcoming their initial suspicions of him as an insufferable boy wonder...
...PENTAGON BUDGET. There are issues that need to be looked at-military pay and retirement programs, training programs, the rapid movement of the military from post to post, the creep upward into higher salary levels, the duplication between ourselves and our NATO allies on different systems. In every case where we are getting less for our money than we should be, there are historical, bureaucratic, political reasons for it. That's the way democracy works. But it means that it's hard to get these things out [of the budget...