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Title Evolution of the Secretary of Defense in the era of massive retaliation : Charles Wilson, Neil McElroy, and Thomas Gates, 1953-1961.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2012.

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  D 1.2:C 67/2/STUDY 3    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xi, 41 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Cold War foreign policy series, special study ; 3
Cold War foreign policy series, special study ; 3.
Note "September 2012."
Title from title screen (viewed December 18, 2015).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-39).
Contents Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Eisenhower, Wilson, and the Policy Process -- McElroy : Caretaker Secretary -- Gates : Reasserting the Secretary's Influence -- Conclusion.
Summary "The study presented here concentrates on the three secretaries who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower: Charles Wilson, Neil McElroy, and Thomas Gates. The first of these secretaries were primarily caretakers and administrators, leaving much of the lead role in American foreign policy to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in this era of increasing foreign policy and national security challenges. But Thomas Gates reinvigorated the role of the office in the last year of the Eisenhower presidency, providing a springboard for Robert McNamara, his successor in the John F. Kennedy administration, to increase the power of the position to unprecedented levels"--Foreword.
Subject Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1890-1961.
McElroy, Neil H. (Neil Hosler), 1904-1972.
Gates, Thomas S.
United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees.
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense -- History.
Gates, Thomas S. (OCoLC)fst00221870
McElroy, Neil H. (Neil Hosler), 1904-1972. (OCoLC)fst00221884
Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1890-1961. (OCoLC)fst00343817
United States. Department of Defense. (OCoLC)fst01852447
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. (OCoLC)fst01852471
United States -- Military policy -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
National security -- United States.
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
Military policy. (OCoLC)fst01021386
National security. (OCoLC)fst01033711
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author United States. Department of Defense. Historical Office, issuing body.
Added Title Charles Wilson, Neil McElroy, and Thomas Gates, 1953-1961
Other Form: Print version: Larsen, Jeffrey Arthur, 1954- Rearming at the dawn of the Cold War (OCoLC)784938438
Gpo Item No. 0306 (online)
Sudoc No. D 1.2:C 67/2/STUDY 3

 
    
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