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First to testify was Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who put up a dutiful but unenthusiastic* defense of Wilson's decision to cut the Air Force buildup target from 143 to 120 wings. The goal of 120 wings by December 1955 was only an "interim" matter, he emphasized, and it might well be raised once Eisenhower's appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff had completed their planned review of the whole U.S. military position. And while the Air Force is to be allowed only the manpower and air bases necessary for the 120-wing "interim" goal, aircraft...
Cool Criticism. Talbott was followed in the witness chair by outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, the man principally responsible for the rise of air power to predominance in U.S. strategic planning. Vandenberg spent the better part of three days ticking off criticisms of the Wilson budget in cool, unemotional tones...
Where previous Defense Secretaries had tolerated, and suffered from, dissension among the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries, Wilson put a businessman's emphasis on cooperation. Determined to weld them into a unified team, Wilson made Army Secretary Robert Stevens, Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott and Navy Secretary Robert Anderson his most frequent luncheon companions, kept his door open for them at other times...
...Vinson, once a favorite of Harry Truman's at the poker table, is a regular at Ike's bridge table. A crackerjack player, good-humored Fred Vinson has never been known to get openly riled at a partner's misplay. Another regular is Air Secretary Harold Talbott. who has a competitive spirit to match Ike's, and plays an equally smart game. Among occasional players: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith; Banker Clifford Roberts; Newspaper Executive William E. Robinson, Bridge Master Oswald Jacoby. (Says Jacoby: "The President plays better bridge than golf...
...address to Princeton students, Talbott said that "since the need for junior officers who are not qualified of don't desire to fly, and who lack the technical background will be more and more restricted, the number of students in this category admitted to the advance course will be limited sharply...