As Secretary of Defense, Charles Erwin Wilson is the boss of 3,500,000 uniformed men & women and nearly 1,500,000 civilians. So far, Wilson has been able to bring into the department only eleven men of his own choosing. "An awfully small piece of yeast," as he says, "for such a big lump of dough." The real managers of the Defense Department are a few hundred generals, admirals and civilian bureaucrats.
It was the key career men who drew up the $45.4 billion military budget which Wilson inherited from Harry Truman. Accordingly, they keep...
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