The Beauregard Matter (AFRTS)

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You know, someone once said that everyone and everything here in America depends on speed, and that as our country grows older, we all move faster. But it wasn't much more than a hundred years ago that the fastest anyone could travel was at the speed of a running horse, which wasn't very fast when you compare it to the speed of our latest jet plane,

and talk about going to the moon at 25,000 miles an hour. And during that same 100 years or so, we've grown from the first crude telegraph to the perfection of color television. Yes, this increased speed in transportation, communication, and everything else has changed almost everything in our country, including the Cabinet of the United States.

For example, up to World War II, there wasn't any reason why the war and Navy departments shouldn't be directly responsible to the President. But then, there was a growing need for the speeding up of military action and decision, calling for unified commands and a more closely knit integration of military activities.

Thus, our Department of Defense was born, creating a new cabinet post to coordinate and to execute the overall general policies relating to the armed forces. And the Secretary, heading this new Department of Defense, became the representative to the president for the newly designated secretaries of the Army, Navy and more recently the airport.