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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1958)
5 fM 23? 1 -f S k O h OLD A ft M I I fIB I'll dUAKfl? H A BARREL OF QUALITY IN EVERY BOTTLE! Today, more than ever, buying milder Old Quaker really makes the most sense... because it gives you everything you ever wanted in a whiskey. I ffl Zm - OVER 12,000,000 CASES SOLD! STI1I6HT I0UII0N WHISKEY U M00F 01D QUAKE t DIST. CO., UWIENCEIUIC, IND. President's Security Assistant Walking Repository of Secrets By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD If real life Washington were like a sov movie. Gordon Gray would be fol lowed every where he goes by a platoon of body guards. Gray is a walk i n g re pository of America's top military and louu Cassels diplomatic se crets. He knows just about everything that's worth know ing about this country's de fense potenti . jl, iis latest weap ons, its international commit ments and its strategic plans for coping with any crisis that may arise in the global strug gle with Communism. Keeping up to the minute on such matters is part of his job as President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Gray is a gentle-mannered North Carolinian who looks like, and once was, a college president. He was director of the Office of Defense Mobili zation until July 23, when he was called to the White House staff to succeed Boston bank er Robert D. Cutler as the President's right hand man in the field of national securi ty. Dislikes Publicity Like Cutler, Gray has a strong distaste for personal publicity. He consented to an interview with the stipulation that the talk would not be about him, but about the vital piece of government machin ery that he supervises on be half of the President. This machinery is called the National Security Council. It was created by the Armed Forces Reorganization Act of 1947 to coordinate all of the government's activities - in the military, diplomatic, eco nomic, foreign aid, propa ganda and intelligence-fields -that affect national security. The Council meets every Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in the Cabinet Room of the White House but may also hold special meetings during an international crisis. Its regular members are the President, Vice President, Sec retary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Di rector of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobiliza tion. Others who often sit in by invitation of the President are the Secretary of the Treas ury the Attorney General, the Budget Director, the Chair man of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Director of U.S. Information Agency. Contrary to popular impres sion, the Council has no au thority to make decisions about U.S. policy. No votes are ever taken. Its function is merely to advise the Presi dent, who retains sole re sponsibility under the Con stitution for all decisions. Iks Makes Decisions "The Council's role is to ex pose our major national se curity problems to full and vigorous discussion from all angles," Gray explained. "In its meetings, the President can hear what may be complete agreement, partial agreement, or strongly opposing views on national policy. But the de cisions are always made by the President." Gray's job is four - fold. First, he does the spadework for Council deliberations by meeting twice weekly with the so-called "Junior Council." The real name of this group is the National Security Coun cil Planning Board, and its members are deputies or as sistants to the officials on the Council itself. With Gray as chairman, they go over the problems to be discussed at Council sessions, prepare pre liminary "position papers" outlining agreements or dis agreements and sometimes draft proposed policy state ments. Prepares Agenda Gray's second task is to pre pare the agenda for Council meetings. This is a big respon sibility since it means that he decides what specific current or future problems are to be brought to top-level considera tion. Third, he serves as a sort of moderator at the Council meetings, keeping the discus sion going and making sure that all points of view are brought out fully. His final responsibility is to prepare the "record of action" for Council meetings, which summarizes the issues pre sented and the President's de cisions. Careful wording of this record is vitally impor tant since it becomes the offi cial statement of executive policy, binding on all depart ments and agencies. To keep abreast of all fac tors affecting national securi ty, Gray has to spend two or three hours every night doing his "homework" which con sists of reading top-secret in telligence reports, diplomatic messages and even research progress reports on new weap ons. He meets with the Presi dent several times a week. Gray, still sandy-haired and youthful at 49, admitted that he sometimes finds his re sponsibilities a little awesome. "I've never been quite sure I was up to this job," he said. Served Many Posts But if Gray isn't qualified for the post, it is hard to think who would be. He has served in a wide variety of govern ment posts under both Demo cratic and Republican admin istrations. In the Truman ad ministration, he was Assistant Secretary, Under - secretary and then Secretary of the Army. He also served as Spe cial Assistant to President Truman on foreign economic policy. Gray left Washington in 1950 to become president of the University of North Caro lina. In 1955 he returned at President Eisenhower's re quest to become Assistant Sec retary of Defense. He subse quently served as director of the Psychological Strategy Board (now extinct), and as I yf ppf jfj L You can feel the "Fury" in any Plymouth you pick!. 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