Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Control of Time. Before his statement had burst into print Texan Johnson was on his way again. He seemed everywhere at once: describing a new electric vibrator to Vice President Richard Nixon, eating breakfast with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and again with Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, holding seven-hour committee sessions, making television films for a Texas network, striding down a corridor tossing off orders to two pretty secretaries who took notes as they scurried after him, slipping into a dinner jacket for a banquet, speaking to the Women's National Press Club and to 1,200 steelworkers...
...Lieut. General James Gavin concluded his closed-door testimony before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee one day last week, Chairman Lyndon Johnson scribbled out a press statement summarizing the testimony and handed it to Gavin. Old Soldier Gavin hurriedly looked it over and okayed it. With that began Round Two of the extraordinary story of Jim Gavin's proffered resignation from the U.S. Army (TIME...
...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...
...statement, Pusey emphasized the advantageous location of the new theatre. He cited its central position between the two colleges and its proximity to public transportation. "However, the parking problem is as bad at that site as it would be anywhere else," the President stated...
...frequently has in the past. While not taking a partisan approach, he assumed some of the blame for under-estimating the psychological significance of the Sputnik, and he at least recognized the existence of the dispute over inter-service rivalry. Because he did not make a mea culpa statement of reform and renewed good intentions, he left a large measure of the blame unplaced. As a result he may still be accused of some lack of candor, but the positive effect of his proposals can over-ride such charges...