LBJ Connection: Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee in the 1950s; Staff director, Senate Committee on Aeronautics and Space Sciences, 1958-1961; Ad Hoc Committee on Space to President-Elect Kennedy, 1961; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1961-1964; Undersecretary of the Navy, 1965; Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, 1969-1971; Undersecretary of the Army, 1971-1973