The
Presidents Committee to Study the United States Military
Assistance Program ("Draper Committee") was a
bipartisan committee, created in November 1958
by U.S.
President Eisenhower to undertake a completely
independent, objective, and non-partisan analysis of the military
assistance aspects of the U.S.
Mutual Security Program (MSP).
Members
The Committee was composed of:
- William Henry Draper
Jr., board chairman of the Mexican Light & Power Co. and
retired World War II major general,
- Dillon Anderson, Houston Lawyer,
onetime presidential assistant for national-security affairs;
- Joseph M. Dodge, Detroit Banker, onetime Budget
Director;
- Alfred Maximilian
Gruenther, American Red Cross President, onetime Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe;
- Marx Leva, Washington Lawyer, onetime
Assistant Secretary of Defense;
- John J. McCloy, New York Banker, onetime High
Commissioner in Germany;
- George C. McGhee, Dallas Businessman, onetime
Assistant Secretary of State;
- General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of
U.S. forces in Europe;
- Admiral Arthur W. Radford (ret.), onetime Joint Chiefs of
Staff chairman;
- Oklahoma Oilman James E. Webb, onetime Under Secretary of State,
onetime Budget Director.
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