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	Charles Erwin Wilson Summary
		Charles Erwin Wilson (1890-1961), engineer, businessman, and secretary of defense during the Eisenhower administration, is popularly remembered for his remark comparing the welfare of the United States with that of General Motors Corporation.
		Wilson indicated his intention to retire from office shortly after the start of the second Eisenhower term and left on 8 October 1957.
		Charles Erwin Wilson should not be confused with the Charles E. Wilson who was the CEO of General Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
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	Charles Erwin Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 - September 26, 1961), American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower.
		Wilson indicated his intention to retire from office shortly after the start of the second Eisenhower term and left on 8 October 1957.
		Charles Erwin Wilson should not be confused with the Charles E. Wilson who was the CEO of General Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
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	Charles Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Wilson (physicist) (Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, 1869-1959) was a 19th Century physicist.
		Charles Wilson (Montreal mayor) was the first elected mayor of Montreal in the 19th century.
		Charles E. Wilson - ("Electric Charlie") was the CEO of General Electric and the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization under President Truman.
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	Charles Erwin Wilson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wilson's nomination sparked a major controversy during his confirmation hearings before the (Click link for more info and facts about Senate Armed Services Committee) Senate Armed Services Committee, specifically over his large stockholdings in General Motors.
		Both Wilson and Eisenhower entered office committed to reorganizing the (The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947) Department of Defense.
		Total obligational authority approved by Congress during Wilson's tenure decreased significantly at first and then began to creep back up, but remained lower than the Truman administration's last budgets (that were of course inflated because of the (Click link for more info and facts about Korean conflict) Korean conflict).
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	Charles Erwin Wilson — Infoplease.com
		Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1890–1961, American industrialist and cabinet officer, b.
		He was an electrical engineer with Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company from 1909 to 1919 and designed the first automobile starters made by Westinghouse.
		Shaping Science with Rhetoric: the Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson.
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	Encyclopedia: Charles Erwin Wilson
		Alternative meanings in State of the Union (disambiguation) The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate).
		Charles E. Wilson was the CEO of General Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
		Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18, 1930) was a government official in the United States associated with the Republican Party who was United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 until 1989.
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		Wilson dio la bienvenida al plan de la reorganización, que llegó a ser eficaz el 30 de de junio de de 1953, como facilitando una gerencia más eficiente del departamento de la defensa.
		Wilson, un hombre folksy, honesto, y abierto, conseguido a veces en apuro debido a observaciones ocasionales.
		Charles Erwin Wilson no debe ser confundido con Charles E. Wilson que era el CEO de general electric y de presidente servido Truman como el jefe de la oficina de la movilización de la defensa.
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	Charles Erwin Wilson - American Industrialist and Cabinet Officer
		Charles became president of Delco Remy Corp., a subsidiary of GM in 1926, Vice president of General Motors from 1929 to 1939, he became executive vice president in 1939 and president in 1941.
		Charles died September 26, 1961 in Norwood (East Feliciana Parish), Louisiana and is buried in the Acadia Park Cemetery, Southfield, Michigan.
		Charles Erwin Wilson, President of General Motors -- the largest single maker of armament in World War II -- gave Americans a much-needed warning: "The emergency of the Korean war and the defense program, however, is being used to justify more and more government restrictions and controls.
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	Charles Erwin Wilson
		In July 1954, to complement the 1953 reorganization, Wilson issued a directive to the JCS, the most important provision of which stated that "the Joint Staff work of each of the Chiefs of Staff shall take priority over all other duties"namely their tasks as chiefs of individual services.
		Implicit in the policy was rejection of the idea that a year of crisis with the Soviet Union was imminent (to occurwhen the Soviets achieved offensive nuclear capability against the United States) or that a general war was just around the corner.
		The Army did move into missile and space programs in an effort to preserve for itself a part in planning for and fighting a nuclear war, but in the late 1950s it continued to push for adop-tion of a new national security policy acknowledging the primacy of limited war.
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	American President
		Charles Erwin Wilson was the secretary of defense under President Eisenhower from January 28, 1953 to October 8, 1957.
		Wilson rose to become president of Delco-Remy Co. in 1926 and vice president of General Motors from 1929 to 1939.
		I was elected to worry about a lot of other things than the day-to-day operations of a department." Wilson later brought about a programmatic shift in the armed forces in preparation for modern warfare, including expanding research and development, cutting the size of the standing army, and boosting readiness for a nuclear conflict.
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		Wilson, Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron, 1881-1964, British field marshal.
		Dorr, Thomas Wilson Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-54, leader of Dorr's Rebellion (1842) in Rhode Island, b.
		Wilson Observatory was founded in 1904 by George E. Hale.
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	Wilson, Charles Erwin -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Wilson, C.T.R. Scottish physicist who, with Arthur H. Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the Wilson cloud chamber, which became widely used in the study of radioactivity, X rays, cosmic rays, and other nuclear phenomena.
		Wilson used innovative molecular techniques to set forth two important evolutionist theories while serving as professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught from 1964 to 1991.
		Wilson was born to Frank and Minnie Harden Wilson on April 30, 1899, in Mayfield, Ky. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a founder of the Chicago Art League in 1925.
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	AllRefer.com - Charles Erwin Wilson (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Charles Erwin Wilson 1890–1961, American industrialist and cabinet officer, b.
		He was an electrical engineer with Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company from 1909 to 1919 and designed the first automobile starters made by Westinghouse.
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	352. Charles Erwin Wilson (1890-1961). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		CHARLES E. confirmation hearing, January 15, 1953.—Nominations, hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, 83d Congress, 1st session, p.
		Wilson, who had recently resigned as president of General Motors, was about to become secretary of defense.
		He was asked if he could make a decision in the interests of the United States government which would be adverse to the interests of General Motors or other companies whose stock he held.
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	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Charlie's Hurricane -- Jun. 04, 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wilson turned to an aide, said reproachfully: "I thought you told me there wasn't anything hot going on." It was a brilliant, cloudless Armed Forces Day 1956—a day set aside for the services to parade their unity across the U.S.—and around Charlie Wilson's shaggy head had broken a storm of military disunity.
		Charles Wilson arose early to dress for the Armed Forces Day review, glanced hastily at the Washington Post but saw nothing to upset him (he had skipped too fast over the Post's account of the Pentagon conflict).
		Once Wilson had caught the full furor of the Army's revolt, he moved swiftly last week to make one principal point: the battle was a low-level affair and (unlike the Revolt of the Admirals) did not represent the thinking of the responsible service chiefs.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wilson, C to D
		Wilson, Charles Erwin (1890-1961) — Born in Minerva,
		Isaiah Stetson; son of Franklin Augustus Wilson and Carolyn Pierce (Stetson) Wilson.
		Wilson, Clarence R. — of District of Columbia.
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	20th Century American Leaders Database
		Despite his reluctance to produce military goods, Wilson was nonetheless an excellent manager during World War II and helped his company garner over $14 billion worth of military contracts.
		His most notable accomplishments, however, were his achievements in labor relations, including his creation of an inflation-indexed wage and a uniform pension plan for all workers.
		Wilson's labor policies ultimately became the standard for the entire auto industry.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/968 (91 words)

	Wilson, Charles E., Good Neighbours
		Wilson spoke to us in January, 1951, as the President of General Motors Corporation on the difficult subject, 'The Essentials for Labour Peace'.
		Then, when President Eisenhower was seeking to build a cabinet of all the talents, he prevailed upon Charles Wilson to renounce his General Motors possessions and give his services to the nation.
		WILSON: I appreciate your kind introduction, and I am very pleased to have this opportunity to speak to such a distinguished group of Canadians.
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	Normandy and conspiracy (from Rommel, Erwin) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Erwin Rommel inspecting beach defenses in German-occupied France, March 1944.
		He was an outstanding tactician who purposely turned down the chance to become a member of the German general staff in order to remain a front-line officer.
		The Austrian theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
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	Charles E. Wilson
		Charles E Wilson was Secretary of Defense in the Eisenhower Administration from 1953-57.
		From 1909 to 1919 Wilson was an electrical engineer with Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh from 1909 to 1919.
		It was Wilson, who, as President of the largest maker of armaments and also Secretary of Defense, pioneered the intimate partnership (later to be dubbed the 'Military Industrial Complex' by Eisenhower), between Big Business and the Military.
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	Wilson Family Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thomas Bonar Wilson was born December 12, 1836 in Staford, Franklin Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio, son of William Wilson and Mary Hupp.
		Thomas Erwin Wilson was born September 28, 1862, Stafford, Franklin Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio, son of Thomas Bonar Wilson and Rachel Ann Hannah.
		Charles Fredrick Wilson was born October 13, 1878, Stafford, Franklin Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio, son of Thomas Bonar Wilson and Rachel Ann Hannah.
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	Medal of Freedom Recipient Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson
		TO For nearly five years, the positive leadership, sound judgment, and unceasing efforts of Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson, have been major factors in strengthening the security of the United States and its allies against aggression.
		Wilson was born on 18 July 1890 in Minerva, Ohio.
		As to air defense, the Army received responsibility for point defense of specified geographical areas, vital installations, and cities; the Air Force became responsible for area defense the interception of enemy attacks away from individual vital installations; and the Navy could maintain ship-based air defense weapon systems.
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	My Family
		Children were: Charles Robert BAHAM, Thomas Earl BAHAM, Earl Foster BAHAM, Edgar Earl BAHAM.
		Charles Daniel FRANKLIN was born on 22 Feb 1879.
		Charles Erwin FRANKLIN was born on 6 Jun 1879.
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		Spouse: Stephen J. Stephen J. and Annabelle WILSON were married on 30 APR 1934 in Carrolltown, Cambria Co., PA.
		Bird C. WILSON was born March 5, 1863, daughter of Dr. John Russell WILSON and Charlotte (WALKER) WILSON, in Washington, Pa. She was reared there and graduated from high school in 1880.
		Charles R. was born in 1887 in Shermans Dale, Perry Co., PA.
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	Charles Erwin Wilson - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the wake of the Korean_War, he cut the defense budget significantly.
		During his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated "What was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." Wilson was born in Minerva,_Ohio and died in Norwood,_Louisiana.
		Charles Erwin Wilson should not be confused with the Charles E. Wilson who was the CEO of General_Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
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