Word: radford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Secretary Wilson and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, conceded that their new look delivered last week was only a quick look, and a temporary one. Obviously, the armed forces must soon be altered drastically, to fit a changing concept of war and the changed military situation of the U.S. The Chiefs cannot do this on their own authority. Switching armaments is expensive in the short run, even though an armed force redesigned to fight atomic wars may not turn out to be more expensive than the one the U.S. has now. (Example: while...
Since last July, Admiral Arthur W. Radford and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been making a new assessment of the U.S. armed forces. Last week, their deliberations almost over, they found one problem more pressing than others. The problem: manpower...
...Myer, traditional home of the Army's No. I man. General Joe Collins, coming in as Bradley's successor, had to make do in a commodious brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort McNair, and Collins would be househunting again...
Close Ranks. Since he is staying on in Washington as Radford's NATO assistant, Collins (who is not called "Lightning Joe" for nothing) reacted fast. He learned that the spacious quarters at Fort Myer, which Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg had occupied,* were still vacant, and that Van's successor as Air Chief, General Nate Twining, had no plans to move into them. Collins called Ridgway and suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway...
...nearby and close ranks. The crisis spread to the Navy. As the new Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Carney was entitled to live in a huge, turreted barn at the Naval Observatory, next door to the British Embassy, but he nursed a dark suspicion that the higher-ranking Radford might grab it first. To forestall an invasion, Carney leaked a strategic news item to a society columnist, who reported that "Admiral Carney says he expects to move into the admiral's house on Observatory Hill." Ridgway told the same columnist he intended to take over the Bradley house...