Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Qualified Answers. From the scars left by the revolt of the admirals, the committee turned to the open wounds left by Defense Secretary Wilson's proposed cuts in Air Force appropriations.* Disturbed by outgoing Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg's statement that he had not protested the cuts before the National Security Council, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith asked each of the four nominees whether he would "speak up" if he thought that the defense budget had been cut so much as to endanger the U.S. security. With varying degrees of qualification, each said he would...
Democrat Symington sailed in to defend Vandenberg, the man who wasn't there. By indirection, Symington accused Charlie Wilson of failure to consult Vandenberg, the Air Force chief of staff, on the Air Force budget cuts. It was his understanding, said Symington, that at the time of the crucial NSC meeting, General Vandenberg had not yet been told that the planned slash in the defense budget would come almost entirely out of Air Force funds...
...still have known only a fraction of the history of war at sea. But, like a considerable group of still serviceable flying officers, silver-haired, cigar-smoking General Nathan Farragut Twining has personally navigated sloops, junks and frigates of the air. When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare in the sky. Nate Twining, military airman since 1923, came to high command heavily fueled...
...half years ago. after a tour in Alaska where he hunted big Northern brown bear, he became vice chief of staff and No. 2 man in the Air Force. Last year, when Vandenberg was out of action for months recuperating from surgery, Nate Twining ran the Air Force in all but name, distinguished himself for evenhandedness and loyalty to Vandenberg's policies. Twining is near retirement age. President Eisenhower was thus able to appoint him for two years instead of the usual four, and still reserve the chance to appoint youngish (46) General Lauris Norstad, commander...
...Transfer of executive responsibility for a unified, multiservice command from one of the Joint Chiefs (e.g., Korea under Army General J. Lawton Collins. Alaska under Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg) to a civilian service secretary. Result: more civilian control, and a further confinement of the Joint Chiefs to their role of "military advisers...