Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flaws in such a military structure showed up almost immediately, and the Pentagon has undergone a bewildering succession of committee surveys, reorganization plans, and legislative attempts to plug up the holes in the system. But all the efforts to strengthen Defense Department control over the separate services have, in fact, served mostly to make the office of the Secretary of Defense itself an unwieldy, sprawling compromise of an organization, with nine assistant secretaries, about 300 committees and 2,151 staffers. Far from working toward unification of forces, the Defense Secretary's office has virtually become a fourth service...
...same time, to strengthen the lines of civilian control, the Secretary of Defense would be the final Pentagon authority in all matters, especially including administration of the services, which he must now share with the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those Secretaries would be replaced by Under Secretaries of Defense, one for each service, whose responsibilities would lie within the Department of Defense instead of with the separate branches...
...that weak, then the nation is in worse trouble than it ever reckoned. A career Army officer inhabits the White House, with the authority of Commander in Chief, and no President has operated in closer harmony with constitutional concepts. Moreover, all the general staff systems currently contemplated would strengthen, not weaken civilian control of the military...
...bias. They will announce, "We have nothing against wonks, other things being equal." An enraged Joseph Kennedy (John's father) will confirm reports that he is going to "buy Harvard College for my boys." Rev. Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean Watson will offer to find gold with his IBM machines. "Damn, but those machines are awfully smart. Awfully" he will...
...Million. What the Catholics need to do, said Cavanaugh, is not only strengthen their schools and colleges, but recapture their tradition as intellectual leaders. Unfortunately, the 2,500,000 alumni of Catholic colleges and universities do not seem to be doing much of anything. "I am a member of the board of the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation. In the last six years we have given away $29 million . . . Not a single Catholic program of liberal adult education has, so far as I can remember, received a dime. This has been due, not to bigotry...