Word: reeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HARMON REEDER...
...since he became ill. But his greatest pleasure came when he opened a package from his grandchildren: Susan, 3, Barbara Anne, 6½, and David, 7#189;. Each child had sent an original drawing. David also sent a book, a 25? volume called The Mackenzie Raid by Colonel Red Reeder, a story of action on the Texas border around 1873. Each of the children filled out the personally wrapped packages with the most precious gift of all: two sticks of bubble gum. Showered with such important gifts, the President of the U.S. laughed more and felt better than...
Said General Reed.er, answering a reporter's pointed question: "I'm sure that [General Eisenhower] referred to ammunition. But [he] has been listening to the guys who would like to have all the ammunition we could possibly lay down. I would expect that." Reeder admitted that U.N. Commander Mark Clark had officially requested bigger deliveries of shells. Then Reeder volunteered a sleight-of-hand statement with few equals in the Pentagon's recent history: "We have plenty of ammunition to hold a line [in Korea]. But if you want to get going again it would obviously take...
...obviously willing to rattle any skeleton in the Truman closet to divert public attention from a snafu in supply. Sample Reeder rattles: 1) When Korea began, "we thought, and many responsible people said, that it was just a police action"; 2) ammunition stocks are low partly because of the "atmosphere of economy" enforced by onetime (1949-50) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson...
Under a correspondent's prodding, General Reeder acknowledged that U.N. troops are now being rationed on artillery ammunition. Censorship still hides the rest of the story, but when it can be told it will emerge as a major scandal in home-front procurement...