Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the Pentagon has been wrestling with the problem of what to do about an Air Force chief of staff when General Hoyt Vandenberg's four-year term expires on April 30. There is a strong peacetime tradition against keeping a man in one of the top jobs of the armed forces for more than one term, but in Vandenberg's case there were strong reasons to justify an exception...
There was no obvious choice to succeed Vandenberg. Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter vigorously recommended General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command. Hard-boiled Curt LeMay is one of the nation's ablest fighting men, one of the Air Force's best commanders, but he is also a single-minded and conspicuously undiplomatic champion of strategic bombing. The Army and Navy mortally fear that he would set himself against big plans for short-range air support for ground troops and carrier-borne aviation. Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, well aware of the argument...
Bear Trap. Televiewers found it a lively if not very illuminating show. Next day letters and telegrams (running more than two to one against McCrary) poured into the network. The national Citizens for Eisenhower organization, headed by Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., hurriedly announced that McCrary was not an official or even a member of their group. Bruised but unrepentant, McCrary defended his charges on his own bedside radio show next morning (NBC promptly offered Taft equal time for a rebuttal). That night, as a guest on WMCA's Barry Gray program, McCrary protested that he had been caught...
...Defense production was a national headache, too. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's report on his return from Korea underlined the fact that we lag woefully behind the Communists in numbers...
...London, her parents announced that Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr., 23, son of the Air Force chief of staff, had won the hand of Sue Rosannah Johnson, 19, daughter of Major General Leon Johnson, Medal of Honor man (the Ploesti raid) and boss of the Third U.S. Air Force in Britain. They will be married at Mitchel Field, Long Island, after her father takes over his new job as commander of the Continental Air Command...