Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bitten. Such excitement was merely the beginning. In the midst of the nip-and-tuck 1954 congressional campaign, Wilson remarked in Detroit, referring to laid-off auto workers: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five...
...Wilson's freewheeling comments brought him plenty of drubbings from Congress and the press, but through the bitter days he kept his own sense of humor intact. "The price of progress is trouble," he once remarked, "-and I must be making lots of progress." The turning point probably came after Ike himself reproved Wilson for saying that the National Guard was a hideout for draft-dodgers during the Korean war. Wilson's wife Jessie promptly cracked right back at the President. She was "indignant" she said. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead...
Orchid-Bedecked. Last week as Charlie Wilson said his goodbyes, Washington realized something else: it was saying goodbye to a distinguished Defense Secretary. President Eisenhower wrote a warm "Dear Charlie" letter, took time out from the Little Rock crisis to show up briefly at a black-tie dinner given in Wilson's honor by Secretary Dulles. The three service Secretaries and Chiefs of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps stood up beside Charlie at Fort Myer as jet bombers and fighters roared by in an honorary flyover. And-perhaps in the most meaningful salute of all-newsmen...
...military spending (see below) get away from him, made it equally clear that he would characteristically try to repair the damage right down to his last minute in the Pentagon. Inevitably, during the nostalgic levity, the immortal "good for General Motors" misquotation came up again, and once more Wilson explained what it was he really had said. Then, grinning broadly, he added: "I have never been too embarrassed over the thing, stated either way." The newsmen laughed-this time with Charlie...
...spending total from running past the new $72 billion estimate, the Administration is squeezing to hold defense spending down to $38 billion. And the high cost of technological complexity in the jet-missile-atom era makes that ceiling uncomfortably low. In the past few months. Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that a reconnaissance wing would be deactivated...