THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION'S MILITARY BUDGETS DURING ...
THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION'S MILITARY BUDGETS DURING ...
a total of direct and indirect demands of $86 billion. Liberal critics of the military have pointed out that the impact of military spending occurs not only in ...
Nsc-68 1950 - Office of the Historian
While NSC-68 did not make any specific recommendations regarding the proposed increase in defense expenditures, the Truman Administration almost tripled defense ...
The Quiet Coup of 1949 | Air & Space Forces Magazine
First, the Truman Administration was determined to hold the defense budget to about $13 billion a year, a relatively low amount. Second, Forrestal believed ...
Annual Budget Message to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1948
The 1948 Budget assumes a reduction of civilian employment in the Government as a whole to less than three-fifths of the wartime peak number.
Presidency of Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia
In 1949, the Truman administration designed and presided over the creation of NATO, a military alliance of Western countries designed to prevent the further ...
Remarks to Key Officials on the Budget for the Military Functions of ...
... in an intensive effort to develop the military budget for 1952. That budget represents one of the most significant programing jobs that this administration ...
Harry S. Truman: Life in Brief - Miller Center
... War II when he chaired the "Truman Committee" investigating government defense spending. ... administration was "soft on communism," and the stalemated Korean War ...
Truman's First Budget Director, Harold D. Smith, 1945–1946
... Truman's First Budget ... in public administration, including demobilization, abolishing wartime agencies, and cutting military spending.
James V. Forrestal - OSD Historical Office - Department of Defense
Truman refused to allow the Air Force to spend the extra funds, limiting it to 59 groups. In 1997 constant dollars, FY 1949 TOA amounted to $127.7 billion.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949
At the same time, the Truman Administration instituted a peacetime draft, increased military spending, and called upon the historically isolationist ...
Harry S. Truman: Domestic Affairs | Miller Center
When Congress preserved the Office of Price Administration but stripped it of all its power, Truman delivered a stinging veto. As controls began to disappear in ...
Charles E. Wilson - OSD Historical Office - Department of Defense
The TOA for FY 1953, Truman's final Defense budget, was $44.2 billion. TOA in subsequent fiscal years was: 1954, $30.4 billion; 1955, $33.7 billion; 1956, ...
Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1949
In the 2 years since the surrender of the Axis Powers, expenditures of the Federal Government have decreased sharply from 63.7 billion dollars in the fiscal ...
Truman's First Budget Director, Harold D. Smith, 1945–1946
... administration, including demobilization, abolishing wartime agencies, and cutting military spending. It also included the need for novel governmental ...
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program
The committee's work prompted criticism from officials in the Roosevelt administration. When Congress declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, critics at the ...
President Eisenhower "Wages Peace" (U.S. National Park Service)
The Cold War and the directives of NSC 68 led to a significant increase in American military spending. Just over $13 billion was spent on the ...
Jul 15, 1948 Great Britain, Defense Policy, Military. Assistance, War Powers ... Jun 13, 1951 Far East, Budget, Intelligence, USSR, Economics,. Aviation ...
Paying the Defense Bill: Financing American and Chinese ...
In the face of what could be a decades-long competition, the United States and China must consider how they will finance defense spending.
Harry S. Truman - Naval Air Force Atlantic
For domestic affairs during the Truman administration the president sought a ... One of President Truman's closest military advisors was his naval aide beginning ...
Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War: Bretton Woods ...
Forrestal favored a defense budget of $17.5 billion, compared with Truman's ... within the Truman administration remained confident that American economic.