...services shall not be eligible for appointment as Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Dcfcnso shall be the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the national security. Under the direction of the President and subject to the provisions of this Act he...

...after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force. [(b) The Secretary is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to tne Department of Defense. Subject to the direction of the President and to this title and section...

...after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force. [(b) The Secretary is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to tne Department of Defense. Subject to the direction of the President and to this title and section...

...authority granted the Secretary of Defense is superior to any made to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, since he is "the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense," whereas the Joint Chiefs of Staff constitute an element "within the Department of Defense," it may...

...services shall not be eligible for appointment as Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Defense shall be the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the national security. Under the direction of the President and subject to the provisions of this Act he...

...of Defense Administration The Department of Defense is administered by the Secretary of Defense who is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense. Under the direction of the President, and subject to the provisions of the National Security Act of...

...departments in lieu of their prior status as Executive Departments." (5 USC 171 (b).) Secretary of Defense As the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense, the Secretary, subject to the direction of the President and the provisions of the statute, "has ....

...addition, expressly given the Secretary of Defense even greater power when it made the Secretary of Defense "the principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense." To repeat, subject to the President and certain express prohibitions against specifically described...

...order of magnitude therein. Third, Congress in the National Security Act made the Secretary of Defense "the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense." These are words of potent authority, for, the President under the Constitution is the Commander in...

...there is no way to legislate its source. Moreover, the same law declares that the secretary of defense "is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense" with "authority, direction and. control over the Department of Defense": in ca<e anyone wondered, it...