Inside Reagan's Navy : The Pentagon Journals / Chase Untermeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Untermeyer, Chase, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Webb, James, 1946 February 9-.

Webb, James.

Lehman, John F., Jr.

Lehman, John F.

Untermeyer, Chase, 1946---Diaries.

Untermeyer, Chase.

United States. Department of the Navy--Officials and employees--Diaries.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While serving as an assistant to Vice Pres. George H. W. Bush, Chase Untermeyer concluded that the only way to learn how the US government really works was to leave the silken cocoon of the White House and seek a position in one of the departments or agencies. In March 1983, when offered an appointment as a deputy assistant secretary of the navy, he jumped at the opportunity. After only a year as a "DASN," he was named by Pres. Ronald Reagan as assistant secretary for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, in charge of all personnel issues affecting nearly one million sailors and Marines and a third of a million civilian workers.Inside Reagan's Navy offers an engaging, up-close narrative of Untermeyer's experiences in the Pentagon, interwoven with descriptions of events and people, humorous anecdotes, and telling quotations. As in his earlier book, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration, Inside Reagan's Navy paints a portrait of official Washington during the Reagan years, with its politics, parties, and personalities.

Contents:

Preface: Third time in the fleet

The education of a DASNIF

Incautious snakes and an irritated princess

The call from across the river

Breaking my flag

Secret mission to Dallas

Fleet week

SecNav car #2

Jus' give us dat port

Punching the feather bed

The tongue of the ocean

Change of command

Plebe spring, plebe summer

The evolution of authority

The second death of Lieutenant Hodges

Bound for Valparaiso

Afterword: lessons learned.

Notes:

"When Things Went Right (Texas A&M University Press, 2013), predecessor to this volume in telling the story of my years in the Reagan Administration."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-216-5

OCLC:

900540606