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...Chairman," cried Georgia's plain-spoken Carl ("Swamp Fox") Vinson, "this is the first time in my 44 years as a member of Congress, 25 years as chairman of committees presenting defense legislation, that I have seen a matter involving our national security become a subject of partisan politics...
...bluntness that he rarely lets the public see or hear, Dwight Eisenhower let fire last week with the toughest language he has aimed at Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME, April...
...Great Trouble." Part of Congressman Vinson's reversal was practical recognition of increasing and impressive support for the reorganization plan. Before Vinson's committee last week came two respected military leaders who had learned of the difficulties and dangers of the present disjointed defense organization through their own experiences as chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Insane Bickering." The Eisenhower plan got still another big boost, this one from Missouri's bulb-nosed Democratic Congressman Clarence Cannon, 79, chairman of the potent House Appropriations Committee, and a man who considers himself every bit as much a military expert as Carl Vinson. Rising on the House floor, Cannon delivered an old-fashioned stem-winder. "Who is better qualified." demanded Democrat Cannon, "in training, experience, and capacity than General Eisenhower? When it comes to military affairs involving the safety of the people and the survival of our form of government, he is a general, and I take...
When he sat down, after 48 minutes, Cannon got a standing ovation from most of the 150 Congressmen in the chamber. And it was in the face of such obviously growing sentiment for reorganization that Carl Vinson, above all else an eminently realistic politician, began backing down in his announced determination to scuttle the Eisenhower plan, started working with Nate Twining on a revision that would be acceptable both to the Administration and to Congress...