Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Took firm hold of the thorniest defense problem of them all by calling for Pentagon reorganization and by warning the Pentagon's generals and admirals that "harmful service rivalries" must stop...
Free Hand, Sure Touch. Neil McElroy's great advantage is that he has clear and specific authority for cleaning up the Pentagon mess. A few weeks ago President Eisenhower called him in and told him to get the job done-no matter how. Said the President of the U.S.: "You have a free hand...
...Army Jupiter had gone so far, taken so long and cost so much that both should be put into production. McElroy upgraded Deputy Assistant Secretary William Holaday to the post of missile boss. To those who doubted Holaday's ability, McElroy also let it be known that the Pentagon's real missile boss was Neil McElroy...
...prepares for hot war while the Secretary of State wages cold war. Indeed, U.S. defense shortcomings have been a major factor in the weakening of the U.S. diplomatic position in Europe. And not until Neil McElroy-or someone else-brings sound defense and sound organization to the Pentagon will the U.S. again move ahead positively in both hot and cold war capabilities...
Washington's new attitude on contract-letting represented a decided turnabout from spending in the early part of this fiscal year. When the Administration set a Defense Department budget of $38 billion for fiscal 1958, the Pentagon was already running far above its spending ceiling, and the Budget Bureau held down defense authorization for new contracts for the first four months of the fiscal year to only $8.4 billion. Then, reassured that the Pentagon's spending rate was under control, the bureau relaxed, released another $10 billion in November and December. Contracts for the rest of the fiscal...