Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jobs in the Eisenhower Administration. Among them: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Flint Chevrolet dealer and ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee; Secretary of Defense (1953-57) Charles Wilson, ex-president of General Motors; Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller, Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer; Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker, onetime Michigan Governor (1931-32); Budget Director (1953-54) Joseph Dodge, Detroit banker...
...Staff: Their inability to agree "removes the professional military experts from any effective role in the decision process." Command of the armed services goes by default to "a combination of short-tenure appointed civilian secretaries supported by permanent, professionally unprepared, civil service civilians." (Medaris' extravagant exception: Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, a staunch defender of the Army missile program, "one of the best, if not the best Secretary of the Army ever...
...week's end the Army seemed to be retreating sidewise. In a press release titled "U.S. Army Aligns with Educators," Army Secretary Wilber Brucker announced the end of college classes in machine-gun dry firing and other venerable exercises, turned the time over to normal academic subjects. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates also seemed prepared to say out loud that no military requirement exists for compulsory ROTC. Under the circumstances, many a college may decide to make ROTC voluntary...