Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12541, an Act to Promote the National Defense by Providing for Reorganization of the Department of Defense, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 444 pages |
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Page 264 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 371 - Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 137 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 243 - Code, is amended by redesignating subsections "(a)", "(b)", and "(c)" as subsections "(b)", "(c)" and "(d)", respectively, and by inserting a new subsection (a) to read as follows: "(a) There is a National Guard Bureau, which is a Joint Bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force...
Page 6 - Defense may determine after consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff ; and for a period of one year from the effective date of this Act, the Secretary of Defense or his designee is further authorized to engage in such advanced space projects as may be designated by the President.
Page 1 - ... eliminate unnecessary duplication in the Department of Defense, and particularly in the field of research and engineering by vesting its overall direction and control in the Secretary of Defense...
Page 6 - Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 430 - In questions of power then let no more be heard" of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief, by the chains of the Constitution.
Page 1 - In enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the United States; to provide for the establishment of integrated policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to the national security...
Page 4 - ... the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force...