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TIME, June 1, carried a picture of the Pentagon chiefs saluting the colors. Three of them [in civilian dress] are rendering the salute strictly in accord with Section 5 of Public Law 829 (commonly referred to as the flag law). This . . . states in part: "... When not in uniform, men should remove the headdress with the right hand, holding it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Men without hats should salute in the same manner...
...Senate's Preparedness subcommittee early in the Korean war. Lyndon knew the field; he had specialized in military affairs in the House, had served for eight months during World War II on leave from the House as a naval officer in the Pacific. His Preparedness subcommittee infuriated the Pentagon, but did what non-Pentagon observers consider a good job. It saved the U.S. taxpayers $500 million by recommending changes in the tin program, saved $1 billion by its discovery that the Government was paying too much for natural rubber while disposing of its own synthetic rubber plants. The most...
...Break. News of the decisive break at Panmunjom clacked onto a Pentagon teletype machine in the small hours of Thursday morning. By 9 a.m. the official report from Tokyo had been sped by courier across the Potomac to State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs. There, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson studied the message, then hurried word up two floors above to Secretary Dulles, who relayed the word to the White House. Before the day was out, a wave of truce optimism spread from Washington to U.N. headquarters, and on to the capitals of the West...
Navy Outcry. When Wilson got home, he discovered that the chips were flying in the corridors and outer-ring offices of the Pentagon. One of his principal organizational recommendations-which he persuaded the Rockefeller committee to insert in the Defense Department reorganization plan-involved straightening out lines of authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To date, the Joint Chiefs have operated like a loose federation, capable of interservice horse-trading, but seldom of clear-cut decision. Wilson bought the plea of retiring JCS Chairman Omar Bradley for additional authority for the chairman. This touched off a Navy outcry...
...reaction was to order and enforce a long-needed tightening of Defense Department security. Circulation of documents was greatly restricted, public demonstrations of new weapons was stopped, and the expensive public information divisions of the individual services faced virtual abolition (they are now operating under a reprieve). Some Pentagon reporters, finding their news sources drying up and the usual flood of publicity handouts dwindling to a trickle, joined the battle by writing that an Iron Curtain had been dropped over the Defense Department...