When President Eisenhower in 1953 named Admiral Arthur W. Radford chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there were some raised eyebrows in the U.S. Air Force: Radford was intimately and ardently identified with the Navy's assault in the 1949 "Revolt of the Admirals." But last week there was no surprise and no complaint from the airmen when the President reappointed able Strategist Arthur Radford as J.C.S. Chairman for two years; he had succeeded in establishing himself as concerned with the defense of the nation, not of the Navy.
The surprise came when President...
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