Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staff, there were some raised eyebrows in the U.S. Air Force: Radford was intimately and ardently identified with the Navy's assault in the 1949 "Revolt of the Admirals." But last week there was no surprise and no complaint from the airmen when the President reappointed able Strategist Arthur Radford as J.C.S. Chairman for two years; he had succeeded in establishing himself as concerned with the defense of the nation, not of the Navy...
While delays piled one legislative day on top of another, Strategist Conrad was at work in other fields. He asked for and got the governor's assurance that, while the fight was on, favors for senators would be cleared through him. Thus, when a small town asked the State Highway Commission for permission to park its new fire truck in the state garage, the request was referred to Roy Conrad. When the puzzled state senator representing that district asked Conrad to approve the request, he got a question for an answer. How was he going to vote...
...Obstructers. There is still one weak spot in the offensive. Ike has not learned to deal with Republicans in Congress as a forceful political strategist. His powers of personal persuasion are strong; his congressional liaison men are shrewd in estimating votes; and his House tacticians, notably Massachusetts' Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck, are loyal and effective. But Ike has not developed the feeling for maneuver that made Teddy Roosevelt a master at getting results in Congress...
...whatever to support their recommendations. Instead, he was helping those Senators who wanted to soften the censure resolution. This group included most of the other Republicans who hold official leadership positions in the Senate. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was the chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, whip, were in on the consultations. While McCarthy was vilifying Utah...
...What's the dope?" I asked the genial strategist, grabbing...