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Francis P. Whitehair wanted to be Secretary of the Navy. Last week he made it. The last step on his Jacob's ladder was a disappearing letter of resignation...
...Whitehair's first step came in 1951 when he got himself named Under Secretary of the Navy on the recommendation of Harry Truman's crony, White House Aide Donald Dawson. Whitehair was not a hit with the admirals, who thought that he neglected the Navy in favor of politics in his home state of Florida. They were scandalized when he gave an $11,800-a-year job to William E. Willett, another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance...
When it came time to choose a Truman appointee to stay on with the Navy Department until Republican Secretary-designate Robert B. Anderson could learn his job, former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett passed over Whitehair in favor of a lower-ranking official, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John F. Floberg...
...fell on one of the RFC men most susceptible to Merl Young's influential ways. William E. Willett, ousted as an RFC director last February, had slipped back on to the Government payroll as an $11,800-a-year "specialist" for Under Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Whitehair. When news of Willett's new job leaked out last week (TIME, Dec. 24), Defense Secretary Robert Lovett (who hadn't been told that Willett was drawing a Government check again) demanded his resignation forthwith...
...Whitehair's most urgent tasks is to clear up the desperate housing shortage for sailors and their dependents at expanding Navy installations. Last week he named a special assistant to take care of this problem, which, the Pentagon professionals insisted, is "a topflight executive job." The appointee, classed as a "manpower" expert, was none other than Whitehair's-and Donald Dawson's-good friend William Willett, out of a job ever since the Senate kicked...