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The Moorer-Radford Affair was a political scandal involving members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who operated an espionage operation against President Richard Nixon's Cabinet, from 1970 to 1971. [ 1 ]
Thomas Hinman Moorer (February 9, 1912 – February 5, 2004) was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as the 18th Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970 and 7th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974. [1]
Joseph Park Moorer (October 18, 1922 – February 26, 2014) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy. Born in Mount Willing, Alabama, he was the younger brother of Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer. [1] [2] Joe Moorer graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1941 and served in the Pacific Theater in World War II and in the Vietnam War. [1]
four-star admiral. The rank of admiral (or full admiral, or four-star admiral) is the highest rank normally achievable in the United States Navy. It ranks above vice admiral (three-star admiral) and below fleet admiral (five-star admiral). There have been 279 four-star admirals in the history of the U.S. Navy.
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral David Dixon Porter – Senior admiral of the U.S. Navy from 1870 to 1891; Admiral Harry D. Train II – NATO Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, CSA – Veteran of the Civil War and Governor of Kentucky
Roy L. Johnson was born on March 18, 1906, in Eunice, Louisiana, to John Edward Johnson and the former Hetty Mae Long, as the eldest of 12 children.He completed high school and earned an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland on June 15, 1925.
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of a forbidden love between two gay men.
Admiral; Chief of Naval Operations (1919–1923); governor of Guam (1912–1914) [148] William Gilmer: 1885 Captain; Governor of Guam (1918–19) and (1919–20) [149] Henry Hughes Hough: 1891 Admiral; Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, a role that he only acted in for a year. He was the first non-acting military governor to govern ...