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laid great stress on developing guided missiles rapidly for their
paychological effect. The President asked whether Deputy Secretary
Quarles and Mr. Holaday agreed with Secretary Wilson's recommendations, and Secretary Wilson replied in the affirmative.
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Mr. Cutler wondered how long the committee referred to in
Secretary Wilson's letter would require for its deliberations. Secretary Wilson said he didn't know.
The President asked why Secretary Wilson wished to put the
single missile program, which would result from a combination of the
THOR and JUPITER programs, under the management of the Air Force.
Secretary Wilson said that the Air Force was responsible in accordance with its roles and missions, and that originally JUPITER had
been put under the Army because of its REDSTONE experience. The
President said that when he had agreed to the dual approach, he had
also agreed that the force developing the missile need not be the
one to utilize it. He stili wondered why there should be an advance decision that the Air Force would manage the single misaile
program. Secretary Wilson said the Air Force would be responsible
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The President said he wasn't objecting too strongly to Air Force
management, but he wondered what would happen to morale if a group
of technicians in a service worked for a long time on a missile
and then had it taken away from them. He thought Secretary Wilson
had adopted the correct approach in general, but still wondered
about this advance decision on management by the Air Force.
The President added that the part of Secretary Wilson's
letter dealing with cancelling the production of missile components
beyond those necessary for a continuing test program, made him amile,
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