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...Carl Vinson, 78, of Milledgeville, Ga.has spent 45 years influencing military legislation in the House of Representatives, where he is known fondly as "Uncle Carl," "The Admiral" and "The Swamp Fox." Since World War II, Chairman Vinson of the Armed Services Committee has been doing a slow burn while Pentagon leaders under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much...
...beginning July 1) to develop three prototypes of the bomber. McNamara reasons that missiles like the Minuteman are the weapons of the future, not manned bombers. But General Curtis LeMay, the Air Force's tough Chief of Staff and an old bomber pilot, made a strong plea to Vinson's committee for rapid development of the full RS-70 weapons system...
...Vinson sided with LeMay against McNamara. His Armed Services Committee, which he dominates as chairman like a benevolent first sergeant, proposed spending an additional $491 million on the RS-70 in fiscal 1963. But far more important was the form of the proposal. To make sure that McNamara would spend the extra $491 million on the RS-70, Vinson's committee set a precedent: it urged that the Administration be "directed, ordered, mandated and required" by Congress to build the bomber...
Constitutional Case. "More and more," said Vinson's report, "the role of Congress has come to be that of a sometimes querulous but essentially kindly uncle Who complains while furiously puffing on his pipe but who, finally, as everyone expects, gives in and hands over the allowance, grants the permission or raises his hand in blessing, and then returns to his rocking chair for another year of somnolence...
When McCormack mounted the rostrum to voice his thanks and to take the oath of office (administered by Georgia's Carl Vinson, the dean of the House), his smile flickered. It was a supreme moment for John McCormack-one he had dreamed of for half his life. Yet McCormack could sense a melancholy and a reserve in the House mood...