Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voted, 410 to 0 in the House, for a $1 billion pay increase for the four military services, the Coast Guard and Public Health Service personnel. The amount is more than twice that recommended-or wanted-by the White House and the Pentagon. It is expected that the Senate will bring the pay raise closer to the Administration proposal, and that ultimately there will be a compromise between the average increase of 10.7% voted by the House and the 4.7% sought by the Administration...
...Sorensen also remembers how, while walking in the White House garden the same day, Kennedy "told me, at times in caustic tones, of some of the other fathers of defeat who had let him down." The "fathers" were the new President's top-level advisers, particularly in the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency, most of them Eisenhower Administration holdovers. By the Sorensen-Schlesinger account, these advisers misadvised, misled and misinformed Kennedy. They are even charged with having overawed him. Schlesinger speaks of the "massed and caparisoned authority of his senior officials" and quotes Kennedy as saying after the event...
...that the Chiefs said they still preferred Trinidad-but said it "softly." At one point Dean Rusk suggested that the operation be launched from Guantanamo, thereby providing the invaders with an opportunity for retreat; but the Joint Chiefs rejected that idea, and Rusk later complained to Schlesinger that "the Pentagon people" were willing to risk "the President's head" but not the U.S. base...
...emergency committee, which is sponsored by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, took a two-page ad in the New York Times to proclaim: MR. PRESIDENT: IN THE NAME OF GOD, STOP IT! Many of its members showed up in Washington a month later for a mass vigil at the Pentagon, protesting escalation of the Viet...
...Johnson. Leading the rumor list of possible successors: White House Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy; Defense Secretary McNamara, who once made the observation that no man ought to stay more than five years on the same job and who, by that standard, has about served his time in the Pentagon; and former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a Republican who has had a lot of State Department experience...