ZUCKERT AND ROWAN RESIGN; BROWN GETS AIR FORCE POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200380004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 11, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Zuckert a.n''d. -ow Resign;
-r n Gets'Ar
`' AUSTIN, Tex.. - The resigna- . . s Deco
m a
tions of Carl T. Rowan as Norman S. Paul, who has beenI propaganda medium.
director of the United States assistant secretary of defenses The President wrote Zuckert
,Information Agency and Eugene for, manpower, since July 1962,1 that "both the Air Force and the
M. Zuckert. as secretary of the was named to succeed Mc:'!iltan' nation are permanently indebted
Air Force were announced , by -in the No. 2 Air Force job. ' * to you for singular achievements
!President. Johnson yesterday., - - As a replacement to the" of your four years in this critical
Several ' other changes In manpower job Paul will leave,) and demanding position" as Air
important government posts the President named Thomas D. Force secretary.
!announced' by the President Morris, who' was assistant, Zuckert's rep 1 a c e in e n t,
1included appointment. of Air ! secretary of defense. for instal-. Brown, was associated with the
Force Maj. James U. Cross- lations and logistics from Janu Defense Department in various
1 who will be promoted to lieuten~ ary 1961 until last December. advisory capacities before being
pant colonel July 15-to replace.. At the same time, the ,Press- named director of defense
,retiring Maj. Gen. Chester V.' dent announced he will nomi- research and engineering by
Clifton as the President's, mili-11 note William True Davis Jr.,' President Kennedy.
tary aide. , U.S., ambassador to Switzerland His appointment. as Air Force
-No successor to 'Rowan aslsince October 1963, as assistant secretary will worry a number}
USIA thief was announced. The secretary of the Treasury to 1of Air Force officers. As direc4
P, ~Q ~o is without a deputy succeed James A. Reed, who is
Wilson! returning to his low. practice tor of research, Brown has said:
erector. Donald M
.
resigned that post recently. And his in investment banking "no" to the Air Force. b/t a
the position of head of the Voice number of proposals foie. new'
Moyers America has been open since 1said Johnson. worked ibombers,' more missiles and
the resignation of Henry Loomis.' for about three hours on these some space projects.
s- and other appointments. in his
White House Press Secretary office at the LBJ Ranch yester-, . It has. been the experience of;
Bill D. Moyers said no date had day morning after arising 'early past appointees of Secretary?:of
been fixed for Rowan's resigna- I -
tion to be effective. Presumably taking a swim in his heated Defense Robert S. McNamaE$~i
Y putdoor pool; however, y +y
'Ropvan will remain on the jobs t He indicated announcements la , tant ofor nce
a service, e
,u To uss is chosen; ' ?;,Qf shifts in other' ma jjor govern b became nt sely service, they)
,became intensely loyal to that)
succeed. Z kert, ,who hat` nment jobs will be forthcoming in '
_ 1, service.
EUGENE M. ZVCKERT ??` 1'r
accepted his resignation "with
served since' Jan, 23, 1961 sincere regret."''
longer, than : any previous Air! Friction on voice
Force secretary-the President There has been some internal
named Dr. Harold Brown,. who, friction within the Voice of
has been director of. defense!
research and engineering' since; America in recent months over
May 3, 1961. No replacement. Its role and some criticism of it
was named for Brown.' ' ???arid . USIA on grounds their
The President. also accented output has become more- a
the resignaft~j/ii@f ~10-AlfO~d~ig.
McMillan as do ccretary,: of ation ' inking than A actual
-?
pi esi e .
S Writing Rowan that he had!' Clifton was appointed by
b
h
life" after more than four years J. Deegan Oo., a management
In government service. advisory firm, as executive vice'
ee ngs, a so
s the i With the old Economic Coopera.
first man appointed to such high Lion Administration, the Central
office by Johnson to resign. 1 Intelligence Agency and the,
it He wrote the President that D Gen. Ce Department.
lifton, a 1936 West Point
personal and family reasons !graduate, is retiring from the)
?!National Security. Council and been in government service
Cabinet m ti I continuously since 1948-serving'
i
rise high enough in government aul, to be nominated as.
to be a regular participant in Brown's undersecretary, has
Rowan, the first Negro ever to Cross Is Personal Friend,
roug
t : to % the USIA. job
"professional - confidence and
{unusual devotion to public
Kennedy as his military aide in January 1961.
The selection of Maj. Cross to
suceed Clifton as the President's
military aide represents a .
severe downgrading in rank for
the job-but presumably not in
its importance.'-
Cross is a personal friend of
Johnson. He commanded' the
aircraft assigned,- to Johnson'
when be was vice president. Another Ton tmenan-
Since February 1964, he has nounced yesterday, made Thom-"
commanded the presidential Jett as J. Watson Jr., board chair.-
Star-a small but fast jet Ere- m'an' of IBM, it member of the
pqn on Tech
t ~~ nJ~ 7 j 4~ alorf and Em,
dt', ~i~r
malty: know! ?AIr,~Fo>~ce ~isra~c Frogcess