Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lead? The President understood well as he faced the Congress, the Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the diplomatic corps that he was facing a critical test. During the seven weeks he spent drafting the first address of 1958-probably the most important of his five years in the White House-the President and his works had been under heavy attack, and he knew the nation's temper. (Wrote New York Timesman Arthur Krock the day before the address: "The question is: Can and will he fully and firmly lead the U.S., and hence the free world?") Moving...
...statement. Paratrooper Gavin, the two-fisted boss of the Army's Research and Development section, bluntly revealed his "intuitive" feeling that Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor had reneged on an agreement to make him head of the U.S. Continental Army Command (with a fourth star for his shoulder). Furthermore, said Gavin, the Army had tried to transfer him to command of the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe (the same three stars), a step that was aimed at halting his ringing insistence that the Army's role was being whittled down...
These minor government officials, he told a meeting of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, can hold up millions of dollars in defense work even after it has been approved by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Alexander M. White '25, head of the Program for Harvard College, stated that the $15 million for the Library is needed to expand research facilities, to purchase new books, and to increase staff salaries...
...Defense chief told newsmen "my principal military consultants" will be Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and two retired officers who held that job previously--Adm. Arthur W. Radford and Gen. Omar Bradley. McElroy said they have agreed to help him. Other consultants will represent civilian viewpoints, but McElroy said he isn't ready to name them...