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| | George Scratchley Brown, General, United States Air Force |
 | | General George Scratchley Brown was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he served as the senior military adviser to the President, the National Security Council and the Secretary of Defense. |
 | | In March 1977, he told high-ranking military and government personnel in a lecture that Congress was being meddlesome and irresponsible in its dealings with defense and foreign aid. |
 | | The President's press secretary, Jody Powell, said in March 1977 that Carter was "not inclined to evaluate his performance on the basis of events that took place during the previous administration." He had served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 1966 to 1968, when he went to Vietnam. |
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