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in YEARS AGO
ComDletlon o i loutbern
Oregon mllfc cooperative or
ganization U expected soon.
Contractors and lub con
tractors have started pre
liminary work on relocating
of 1.23 miles of the Jackson-
ville-Provolt highway.
20 YEARS AGO ,
Naval authoritiei appeal to
public to aid In search for
Navy dive bomber believed
miising in Medford area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "One
wonders at the final fate of
the midwestern draftee, who,
when called up for examina
tion, claimed exemption on
the ground of poor eyesight
and brought his wife along ai
evidence.
1
30 YEARS AGO
Medford city council itudlcs
proposal for widening Eal
Main at.
First Civilian Conservation
corps camp in county estab
lished on Upper Applegate.
40 YEARS AGO
Medford motorists warned
to drive to curb and stop when
city fire whistle blows.
Local residents planning to
go to Portland to hear sched
uled talk by President Warren
G. Harding on Fourth of July.
SO YEARS AGO
Prof. P. J. O'Gara, county
pathologist, predicts Rogue
valley fruit crop will be larg
er in 1013 than in 1012.
Medford Choral society to
make second public appear
ance; group requests donation
of an organ for big scene in
production.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ) ran cornel li superior:
eeen a tlaht li eacellent) five or
ii la ojoo.
1. Technically, when a per
son votes for President is he
voting as a citizen of the U.S.
or as a citizen of his slate?
2. In the event neither
Presidential candidate or Vice
Presidential candidate re-
, ceivca a majority of the elec
toral vote, who chooses the
Vice President? '
3. What docs a football re
feree announce when he
places both hands upright
above hit head?
4. Which is the swiftest
moving planet In the uni
verse? 5. What Is the composition
of danca routines called?
, 6. How many pieces are
used In the gama of domi
noes? 7. What was Thomas A.
Edison's first patented inven
tion? A. What two slates touch
both Kentucky and Mary
land? 6. Approximately how far
beyond the earth's surface
does its atmosphere extend?
10. Luther Hodges of
North Carolina la secretary of
which federal dr-partment?
Answers! 1. Slats. 2. Sen
ate. 3, A score. 4. Mercury.
5. Choreography, 6, Twenty
tight. 7. Elaclrtcal olo coun
ter, t. Virginia and Watt Vir
ginia. I. 120 miles. 10. Com-mare.
THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1113
" Bisecting Jacksonville !
V Some days ago, the
voted to request the state highway department
to find an alternate route for its proposed relo
cation of Highway 238 through that community.
Why it reversed its earlier vote this weeK
is unclear, but presumably it was because of the
"take it or leave it"
department, which said the only choice was the
route along Jackson creek, right through the
middle of the community.
Faced with this ultimatum, the council de
cided that the new route, despite its drawbacks,
was better than none. As it is, the highway fol
lows Fifth and California streets, and the thought
of heavy logging traffic along them this sum
mer is a bleak prospect. i . .
CTILL, the affair raises some interesting ques-
tions.
If, in the view of some of the nation's most
respected authorities on historic sites, architec
ture and communities, the new road eventually
to become a four-lane highway will damage
irreparably many of the town's principal values,
how is the highway department going to justify
its action?
With the citizenry nearly equally divided (at
least on the basis of "votes'1 which weren't votes
at all, but merely a sampling of opinion), can
the council justify a decision which will irrevok
ably alter the character of the town? '', ;
TOO, is it possible that
Klnto anrl nation hIsd
ture of Jacksonville, not, perhaps, quite equal
to that of residents, but of a substantial nature
because of the historic values there I
. No detailed surveys of the other two possible
routes along he north bank of Jackson creek,
and through t. gap in the hills north of the cem
etery have been made: or if they have, they
have not been publicized
choice of alternatives can be made.
Can the highway department justify its "this
route or nothing" ultimatum when the pros and
cons of the alternatives are unknown?
THERE are many pressures on highway ccm-
jr.issioners and engineers -for this, road,
against that one, for and against proposed
routes. And theirs is the legal and moral respon
sibility for making decisions, and for spending
millions of tax dollars.
But the whole Jacksonville affair proposed
without public notice, surveyed in a hurry, rushed
through a public hearing, then thrust upon: the
city council with an either-or ultimatum
leaves open to question the department's sense
of the fitness 01 things, and of the proprieties
of democratic procedure.
Personally, we don't want our tax money to
be spent in cutting Jacksonville in two, and we
think a whale of a lot of other people feel the
same way. K A. r ;
Giles Always Said "Nooop!"
It is urobablv not earth shakintr news in
Southern Oregon that Giles French has sold his
nmirct-tanni' anT trtar nnct t( fViA erutna mncr vln-
orous editorial voices will
But in the newspaper
circles, and in politics all of which have
claimed French's attentions the event is of
considerable significance.
for OUes French crusty, outspoken, conserv
ative in the best sense; a prickly, thorny char
acter who is never afraid to say "no" is one
of the state's most respected (and occasionally
cussed-at) personalities. . ,
f"NE of the most vivid memories we have of
French noes back to the 1945 lccislature.
when he was representing an Eastern Oregon
constituency in the house. On roll call after roll
call, the clerk's spoken "French" would be an
swered by a loud ''Nooop 1" The dang legislature
passed too many 'dunged laws anyway, French
thought then and thinks today.
He later ran for Congress, and when de
feated turned his talents to authorship ("The
Golden Land,", the story of his own Sherman
county, published by the Oregon Historical So
ciety), and to running his newspaper.
He is best known as a paragrapher, turning
out a column of one-paragraph quips, comments,
opinions and observations each week in the Sher
man County Journal. They have been widely
reprinted.
IT IS doubtful whether we ever have or tver
would agree with Giles French on any polit
ical or economic matter. But our respect and
affection for him are unbounded.
He is an individualist, a non-conformist, a
burr under the civic saddle, a nagging conscience,
and a man who holds that change for change's
sake is infantile folly.
Men of his kind arc in short supply, sadly,
in a world of men which sometimes seems to be
turning into a vast sea of vanilla custard bland,
tasteless and shapeless.
French was spice, We wish him well. E. A.
5
The Pacific coast including Washington,
California and all of Oregon; all, that is, in the
Pacific time zone went on daylight saving time
this week.
And the republic still stands. E. A.
Jacksonville city council
attitude of the highway
other residents of the
havfi a stake in the fu
so that an intelligent
thus be silenced.
business, in historical
Here
"Wht Do You Mean, I
Communications
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bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
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edit all lettera with an eye to
clarification and condensation,
Lettera eubmitted for publica
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Bells f:- " '' ,
To the Editor: I read an ar
ticle regarding the campaign
to ring "Liberty Bells" across
the country on this July 4th.
One of the enthusiasts about
this project is Governor Fau
bus of Arkansas.
Oh, yes, the "Hero" of Little
Rock will ring the bell of lib
erty loudly and clearly.
Mrs. E. Reith
826 East Main st.
Medford
For the Future
-To the Editor: I agree com
pletely with Mr. Plngle. Our
school board is composed of
fine men who have each lived
and worked here for a good
many years. They are an as
set to our community. I am
sure that they have nothing
but the welfare of our chil
dren and our community at
heart. It is a tough job and
sometimes they must make
regret table decisions, but
basically wise ones.' ; ...
I urge all to get out and
vote. Vote as you wish, but
be sure to think about your
vote. It will affect otic schools
and community 30 years from
now as well as tin next few
years.
(Name on flic) '
Butte Falls, Ore.
Answers
To the Editor: I should like
to answer Carlcton White
hcad's accusations that I was
inaccurate in a recent letter
In your newspaper.
(1) I said Secretary Udall
stated In Florence that there
would be no overnight camp
ing in the proposed dunes sea
shore. Here is the question I
asked: "Mr, Secretary, will
there be overnight facilities
provided If the dunes park is
established?"
Answer: "No. They will bo
left to concerns outside the
park area." Others heard tills
reply. At present there are
24S family camping places
with many more planned by
the U. S. Forest Service which
manages the dunes. These
camps are very popular with
families who sometimes stay
for several days, people who
could not afford to stay at
motels.
(21 I said TV coverage of
the Udall 45-mlnute "survey"
was provided by a Portland
advertising man. Of course,
the actual shooting was done
by a Portland station but In
asniuch as the advertising man
heads a group in that city
plugging for the park and in
asmuch as he was a member
of the Udall party, it can be
safely assumed that he had
a lot to do with It, especially
in making arrangements.
(3) Mr. Whitehead says the
park service docs not "lock
up" areas. Answer: Look at
Olympic National Park where
sonic 800,000 acres arc going
to waste with an estimated
5 per cent of the tract being
available. Millions of board
fect of fallen and ripening
timber could be salvaged. Ac
cording to recent visitors, the
fire roads built by the U. S.
Forest Service before the park
officials grabbed the area are
overgrown. ,
Is this huge tract, which
could be administered for
multiple use, locked up, or
isn't it?
Decently National Park of
ficials blocked a road to the
south Jetty of the Siuslaw
river which would have open
ed up six miles of beach for
family recreation on the
grounds that they might have
a park there. There is some
thing wrong with the Nation
al Park Servicf) a. id peopm i
mvmviri xiv-' mil
MEOFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Can't Take It With Me ?"
Romney Liked -By
Businessmen
Washington (UPD Michigan
Gov. George Romney, who
used to be one himself, ap
parently has v."i the hearts
of some leading businessmen
in his role as a political figure.
Romney. former president
of American Motors, drew an
emotional and enthusiastic re
sponse Wednesday when lie
addressed business leaders at
the annual U.S. Chamber of
Commerce meeting.
The reception added more
lustre to his chances of be
coming the GOP presidential
nominee In 1964, although
Romney has disclaimed any
candidacy for the White
House.
The dapper, animated Re
publican won a standing ova
tion from the delegates. They
appeared captivated as much
by his political style as his
message. , ,
Romney warned them
against: using politics as an
instrument of economic pow
er. He urged the formation of
political party that would
have true citizen appeal, with
enough independence to tell
big business or big labor
where to go if either got
pushy.
The talk in the hotel lobby
and cocktail bars afterwards
suggested that Rom'neys
speech was the highlight of
the chamber's three-day meet
ing here. ; - . .
Boeing President
In TFX Hearings
Washineton-IUPP-Boeing Co.
President William Allen was
called before Senate investi
gators today as the first indus
try witness to testify in. the
stormy TFX werplane con
tract hearings.
Allen was expected to out
line Boeing's efforts in the
year-long competitive strug
gle to get the contract for the
jet fighter plane, one of the
largest military procurement
awards in U.S. history.
The investigation subcom
mittee, headed by Sen. John
L. McClcllan (D-Ark), is in
quiring into whether favorit
ism or errors affected the
award which went to General
Dynamics Corp. Instead of
Boeing.
Allen was accompanied by
Edward Wells, vice president
in charge of engineering, and
other Boeing officials.
Comptroller G e n e r a 1 Jo
seph Campbell said in testi
mony made public by the sub
committee that Air Force cost
estimates "could not be used
as a basis for comparing" the
rival Boeing and General Dy
namics bids.
Campbell said this left the
possibility that other figures
were used. "However," he
said, "we have found no inde
pendent or additional cost es
timates covering the TFX pro
gram as whole, and the sec
retaries have advised us that
none exists." ,
Colder Than Usual
Temperatures in West
Washington - itW - The
Weather Bureau Wednesday
predicted above normal tem
peratures in the South this
month and colder than usual
In the West and northern bor
der stales.
For the rest of the country,
the bureau said in its 30-day
forecast, average tempera
tures will prevail but with
large fluctuations.
Above normal rain was pre
dicted for states west of
the Continental Divide as well
as in areas extending fror.i the
northern plalivs U.rouch liu
Grcat Lakes and the Ohio Val
ley. are
out.
beginning to find that
Jack Parker
Box 1033
Florence, Ore.
i I I ri
Italian ciecuons seen as anaive isuwu
Of Political Sentiment; Few Changes Seen
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Italian voters gave Italian
Communist boas Palmiro Tog
liati a belated birthday pres
ent this year, but it seems too
early for Moscow to do much
celebrating.
The general elections which
gave tile Communists a rec
ord number of voles actually
were a shakedown of Italian
political sentiment and seem
likely to have little effect
on the "left-of-cenlcr" policy
which Premier Amintore Fan
fani launched in February
1962.
Any changes that do come
about can be expected to be
internal rather than external,
having no effect cither on
Italy s NATO tics or on its
membership in the European
Common Market.
All this is bubed on the as
sumption that the political
forces which made Italy's
left-center government retain
their tics and that the left
wing Socialists of Piclro Nen
ni do not heed Togliatti's siren
call to join the Communists
in a "new Dolitical course."
To do so would be to
plunge Italy into the greatest
political chaos since World
War II.
Past action makes such an
event unlikely.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
fc) Field Enterprise. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
To achieve self-honesty, we
should approach with mistrust
all those "principles" we up
hold that coincide so neatly
with our profit and self-inter
est: it is only when we hold
to a principle that does not
benefit us (and may, indeed,
injure us in a material way)
that we may leel reasonably
confident of its truth.
From many writors, wo
learn something; from a few
writers, we become some
thing: only the latter are
ultimately of any value.
The men who make a rev
olution are usually the first
ones to be unseated by it, as
the Old Bolsheviks were swift
ly executed in Russia; and the
fatal flaw in all revolutionary
doctrines is that they provide
no pattern of steady succes
sion, and simply create an at
mosphere for their own over
throw. . .
It is a -singular irait in
Anglo-Saxon society that
brilliance in conversation is
the surest way to evoke sus
picion in tho company; un
like the Latins, who appre
ciate and admire vorbal
dexterity, wa and the Eng
lish instinctively suspect
any man who speaks fluent
ly and amusingly of being
ilher "slippery" or "n o t
quite sound."
No laborer works as hard
for his necessities as the exec
utive docs for his luxuries;
and this is the irony of mod
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Senator Magnusou's bill is
offered at the request of the
Interstate Commerce Commis-siou-which,
one suspects, may
be beginning to wonder how
the heck interstate commerce
can be carried on at all if (as
seems not improbable at the
moment) every slate in the
Union - and maybe, every
town and every county-has a
different kind of time. ,
QUESTION: '
Just what is a DAY?
AGAIN you may be sur
prised. There arc DIFFERENT
KINDS of days.
The pcrinH hrtwc
time when the sun moves
across the great circle in the
sky which extends north and
south thrmich a point DI
RECTLY OVER US. is called
the "apparent solnr day."
More complications:
This "apparent solar day"
Li not always the same in its
length, because the motion of
the earth varies in Its orbit,
or path around the sun. There
fore scientists have developed
a unit of time which is intend
ed to be always the same in
length.
That unit has been adopted
as the standard fur the meas-
Thc news today?
You niiiy be surprised.
The federal government is
considering the idea of taking
over the problem of Daylight
Saving Time.
NAMED TO POST
Corvallls - Jame.' A. Al
bright. 1S78 Orchard Home
dr., Medford, hits been circled
an officer in his liwng croup
at Oregon State university.
He Is treasurer of Hugall
Thorn, ono of iho campus dor
mitories. Albright is a fresh
man this year ai OSU in the
school of science..
. ? C
When Fanfani began his
left-wing center government
a little more than a year ago,
it was in search of a political
stability unknown In Italy
since the post-war govern
ments of Alcide de Gaspcri.
Fanfani's own. Christian
Democratic party remained
the largest in Italy but it was
a pptchwork of elements rang
ing from tiie moderate left to
the extreme right. Since the
war, Italy has had 22 govern
ments. Conflicting interests within
the smaller parties such as
the neo- Fascists, the mon
archists, the liberals and
others made successful coali
tion impossible.
Meanwhile, the left-wing
Socialists who had joined the
Communists in a popular
front in 1946 and split with
them two years later, were
drifting steadily farther away
from their former allies under
the leadership of Ncnni. '
. In 1962, Fanfani obtained
agreement from his own party
for his left-center experiment.
His new government was com
posed of his own Christian
Democrats, the Republicans
and the Social Democrats.
It had the outside support
of the Ncnni Socialists in re
turn for promises to nation
alize the electrical industry,
to decentralize state adminis
J. Harris
ern-day affluence, as com
pared with the poverty of by
gone eras-lhat what used to
be called the "leisure class"
is now the coronary class.
The psychological reason
that it is necessary to re
spect excellence was
shrewdly put by Goethe,
when he observed: "There
is no defense against some
one else's superiority except
love."
No superstition of the ig
norant is half as damaging as
the chief superstition of the
educated - which consists in
the erroneous belief that
knowing the proper words for
something signifies that we
comprehend it and are in con
trol of it.
Men of similar vices band
together, not for company
but for camouflage; for
when the birds are all of a
feather, tha poculiar strip
ing of each docs not stand
out so much.
The conscious search for
sercniiy is one, of the main
sources of continual agitation
and perpetual unfulfilment.
The real reason that it is
profoundly immoral to live
by the rule that "the ends
justify the means" is that
nobody can know what tha
ends will be (so often are
they contrary to our best
intentions), and all we can
regulate are the means we
use; and if these are cruel
or evil, they in themselves
pervert and deflect the ends
we aim at.
rpHREE bills to that effect
- are now before the Senate
commerce committee . . . One
of them is by Senator Warren
Magnuson, of our neighboring
stale of Washington. Another
is by Senator Norris Cotton,
of New Hampshire. The third
is by Senator A. Willis Rob
ertson, of Virginia.
Senator Magnuson and Sen
ator Robertson arc Democrats.
Senator Cotton is a Repuoli
can. So, you sec, the idea that
the federal government should
take over the Daylight Saving
Time mess is getting so popu
lar that ncithpr narlv want
tlie,)10 nihr-r narlv In nnl Ihn
credit for bringing it about.
Thai's the politics of it.
SENATOR Magnuson's bill
kJ provides for a federal
agency to establish, after hear
ings. Daylight Saving Time
within zones. It would set the
change-over dates as the last
Sunday in April and the last
Sunday in October,
urcment of time, and is called
the "mean solar day." It is as
long as the average "apparent
soiar day" in 1900.
ND
At one time
The mean solar day was
considered to begin at noon.
The civil day used for meas
uring the day for calendar
purposes began at midnight.
But in 1923. the use of a solar
day beginning at noon was
abolished by international
agreement among astronom
ers. Day is now considered to
begin at midnight. This day
and night business is a com
plicated affair. li's little
wonder that we get all snarled
up when we start trying so
make changes in the way we
handle day and night.
' CL.!,. ft.,..'
tration by creating regional
governments, to institute
school reforms and develop
ment plans, especially for the
south. -i
It alienated both the ex
treme right ana the e.:treme
left and it was anticipated
that some votes would flee
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald'
THE ATTACK ON .
McNAMARA
Washington - This' week,
Sen. John McClellan's Special
Investigating Committee will
resume its hearings on the
TFK contract.
The word is
going round
the capital
mat tne Sena
tor, a determ
ined man,
means to keep
the hearings
going until
July, and ex-
AiMio jocts to turn
the TFK contract around."
That means, in effect, that
Sen. McClcllan hopes to force
the resignation of Sacrctary
of Defense Robert McNamara.
For the Secretary can hardly
accept the reversal of his de
cision, to award this contract
to General Dynamics Instead
of the Boeing Co., without re
signing because his judgment
has been reversed.
The TFK controversy turns
upon technicalities which out
siders, conspicuously includ
ing Senate investigating com
mittees, are by no means well
qualified to weigh. Secretary
McNamara, who had to fight
hard to get even one brief
hearing from the Committee,
has had no real chance to tell
his side of the story.
BUT the rights and wrongs
of the TFK affair are very
much less important, in any
case, then the rights and
wrongs of the attack on Mc
Namara, for which the TFK
affair is merely the vehicle.
If this vehicle had not served,
another one would have been
made to serve. That was ine
vitable, In view of the nature
of McNamara's effort.
Since the Defense Depart
ment was established, all the
successive Secretaries before
McNamara have been divisi
ble into two categories. The
good Secretaries were primar
ily interested in national de
fense. To these, the contem
porary members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff invariably be
haved with extraordinary ar
rogance.
The bad Secretaries were
primarily interested in bud
getary economics. To these,
the Joint Chiefs invariably be
haved with shameless servil
ity. When the pic was big, in
short, the uniformed chiefs
of the armed services com
plained because there was
not more pie; and when the
pie was limited, they bowed
to the ground to get the larg
est slice.
Alumni Group Plans
Formative Dinner
Ashland-Thcte will be a
formative dinner meeting of
Douglas County Alumni
chapter of the Southern Ore
gon College Alumni associa
tion Saturday, May 11, at the
Roscburg Umpqua hotel, Dale
Truax, alumni secretary, has
announced.
Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson.
president of Southern Oregon
college, will be guest speaker.
tniertainment will consist of
music and dancing by mem
bers of the Hawaiian club and
folk singing by the Letter-
man, a college quartet. '
Alumni wishing to attend
the meeting may make reser
vations wilh Mr. and Mrs.
John Foust. 1478 NW Eden
lane, Roscburg. Tickets also
will be available at the door.
CUBAN
EXILES
ORGANIZATION
rug THE
UBEtATiON
OF CUBA
m
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, J I KMbltrf I PuJ.7CLr.WI I 'L Irv I
"It li obvious, not Before wt can overthrow Castro
wa must first overthrow this Kennedy!"
both the Christian Democrats
on the right and the Nenni
Socialists on the left.
In the Sunday-Monday elec
tion these predictions were
borne out. But the present
combination Is practically tha
only one able to rule with any
degree of stability.
Joseph AUop
Trlhune Syndicate
THUS curious rhythm wag
only once Interrupted. In .
the early summer of 1943,
after the Czechoslovakia!!
coup d'etat, the Joint Chiefs
confronted James V. Forrestal
with combined requests for a
defense budget of $24 billion.
Forrestal, although intensely
defense-minded, rather than
budget-minded, knew he could
not get so large a sum in
those days. Hence he atkerl
the Chiefs' help in makin
cuts.
Knowing Forrestal wss defense-minded,
the Chiefs re
fused to help. Forrestal then
worked almost from dawn
until late at night, day after
day, week after ween, Uirough
all that summer and au
tumn, making his own line-byline
cuts to reduce the de
fense budget to $18 billion.
The strain of that unaided ef
fort was what, in fact, killed
Jim Forrestal.
Despite that warning, Mc
Namara has set out to accom
plish more than Forrestal ever
attempted. He is just as defense-minded
as Forrestal was,
and his first requirement is a
fully adequate national de
fense program, but he has)
also been trying to reduce the)
unit-cost of national defense,
which has risen continuously
and remorselessly, and not
least under the economizing
Defense Secretaries like
Charles E. Wilson and Louis
Johnson. -
a
rpO OBTAIN maximum de---
fense at minimum cost, in
turn, McNamara has had to
use his own judgment, just
as Forrestal was driven to do
in that summer of desperate
overwork which caused hia
breakdown and death. For a
Secretary of Defense who
wishes to do what McNamara
is trying to do, there is no
alternative to relying on his
own judgment.
This is the case because the
Army, Navy, and Air Force
have never been able to agree
among themselves, not just on
their own roles and missions,
but also and far more im
portantly, on the basic strate
gy and tactics of our national
defense. With three wholly
different defense concepts, the
Chiefs of Staffs invariably ask
for appropriations to defend
the country in three different
ways at once.
In these circumstances, if
there is to be a unified strate
gic and tactical defense con
cept, it has to be imposed on
the Chiefs of Staff by the
Defense Secretary. In the ex
isting system no one else can
insist upon a unified concept.
Yet if a unified concept is not
insisted upon, one of two re
sults must follow.
EITHER the cumulative bill
for satisfying three con
flicting concepts will be com
pletely astronomical. Or the
bill will be reduced to meet
budgetary limitations and the
defense program will be in
adequate. In the last 16 year9
the Joint Chiefs have repeat
edly shown that they prefer
the risks of an inadequate de
fense program to the strain
of agreement on a unified de
fense concept.
McNamara has been trying
to change all this, by improv
ing a unified concept. In
other words, he has been try
ing to get the United States
the best weapons that money
can buy, but no more weapons
than are really needed, and
at the lowest manageable unit
cost. That is the source of
his troubles with the Joint
Chiefs, which are the sourceSi
in turn, of the TFK affair.
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