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...mile road, Brasilia's first paved ground link to the outside world, was ready for Kubitschek's inaugural ride -and ready to carry tons of cement and steel for buildings yet to come. For Kubitschek, who plans to transfer 8,000 government workers to the new capital by 1960, it was a moment for an oratorical allusion to Brasilia's role as steppingstone to the vast, undeveloped interior of Brazil. The new capital, he said, "is the conquest of all that has been ours only...
...bill stipulated that 1) the Defense Secretary's authority must flow through the service secretaries-"legalized bottleneck," said the President; 2) Congress could, in effect, veto Pentagon decisions to transfer major combat functions of the services-''endorsement of duplication and standpattism," said Ike; and 3) each member of the Joint Chiefs and each service secretary had license to deal with Congress "on his own initiative" -"legalized insubordination" to the Commander-in-Chief...
...provision giving Congress what amounts to a veto over any Pentagon decision to transfer or abolish a "major combatant function" is an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism...
This remarkably peaceful transfer of power was a tribute to an entire nation's controlled anxieties, to the sophistication of politicians skilled at maneuvering to the danger point but not beyond it, and to the correctness of the difficult man who asked France for vast powers...
Should a failure of my attempt show that I made a mistake . . . the only road open to me would be to transfer immediately all my powers to the president of the National Assembly...