Word: symington
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Modesty for Moderates. Hardly a day has passed in the last month without Kennedy receiving a bright new program from a study group of his own choosing. First came the recommendations of a committee headed by Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington for a sweeping Pentagon reorganization. Later came a free-spending economic report from M.I.T. Professor Paul Samuelson, then big and costly proposals for aid to depressed areas, housing and education. Kennedy received all these reports with smiling thanks-and committed himself to nothing. And the five-point legislative program (including housing, medical-care, minimum-wage, depressed-areas...
Eugene M. Zuckert, 49, Secretary of the Air Force. As personally close to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington as Texas' Connally is to Lyndon Johnson, affable, golf-loving Democrat Zuckert knew many a political big name When. Manhattan-born, he roomed at Connecticut's Salisbury School with Michigan's G. Mennen Williams (new Assistant State Secretary for African Affairs), studied law at Yale under William O. Douglas, now a Supreme Court Justice. For four years (1940-44) Zuckert taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration (among his fellow teachers: his new boss...
Made public last week, Symington's report had borrowed liberally from major studies of the past, but went on to call for the most radical housecleaning ever suggested for the U.S. military establishment. Items...
...Although Symington optimistically estimated that his plan would save $8 billion, it was not likely to find many backers either in the Pentagon or on Capitol Hill. Even President Eisenhower's mod erate efforts at service reorganization, approved by Congress in 1958, have yet to be given a thorough trial, and that crusty Democrat, Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has made it clear that he thinks even the Eisenhower efforts...
...comment of President-elect Jack Kennedy: "It is an interesting and constructive study, which I know will be carefully analyzed by the Congress and the incoming Administration." At week's end the word around Washington was that Kennedy had no intention of submitting any significant portion of the Symington program to Congress...