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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
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