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Three Things. At the Pentagon, General Earle G. ("Bus") Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, picked up a direct line to the War Room at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the supreme U.S. commander in the Pacific (TIME cover, Aug. 14). Sharp was discussing the attack with his aides when the amber light on his dialless gold telephone flashed on. Wheeler wanted to make sure that the Seventh Fleet was ready. Sharp assured him that...
...Chairman Earle Gilmore Wheeler, 57, is a handsome, strapping West Pointer who, with the exception of five months in a World War II combat area, has served his entire Army career at desk jobs far removed from battlefields. A onetime math instructor at the academy, Wheeler still doodles with algebraic equations during J.C.S. sessions. As director of the Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor...
...followed by the Navy's McDonald, deeply tanned from a recent inspection trip to a Southern installation. Last to arrive was the Marine Corps' Greene. "Well," he said, "as long as we are going to be in here ten years, we might as well not hurry." Chairman Wheeler rose to the bait. "Ten years?" he asked. "Why ten years?" The Army's Johnson ruefully explained that Greene was "pulling my leg"; only a few days before, Johnson had been quoted in the newspapers as having said that the U.S. might have to stay in South Viet...
...Chiefs are unanimous in their opinion that the U.S. and its Vietnamese allies should 1) try to interdict Viet Cong supply lines in North Viet Nam and 2) "punish" the North Vietnamese by air attacks on military and industrial installations so as to let them know, in Wheeler's words, that "they have to pay a price for their activities." The Joint Chiefs realize that such action might bring the Communist Chinese into even more active participation in the Vietnamese conflict-but that is a risk they are willing to run. President Johnson and Secretary McNamara obviously disagree with...
...giving up their strongly held opinions. But, as Admiral McDonald says, "It is up to us to be as persuasive as possible. You don't do that by means of headlines or bellyaching." Under the new J.C.S., interservice rivalries have diminished to the point of disappearing. But Wheeler expresses the sentiments of all the Joint Chiefs when he says: "I do not want a strong Army at the expense of any member of the defense team. The full expense of a balanced team must be borne...