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4 unusual facts about Charles Erwin Wilson


Charles Erwin Wilson

Charles Erwin Wilson should not be confused with the Charles E. Wilson who was the CEO of General Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

The 1953 Wilson Memo led the military to adopt the Nuremberg Code: Patients would have to provide written, informed consent.

Francis William Billado

In 1957 Billado made national headlines when he called for the firing of Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson after Wilson called the National Guard a haven for “draft dodgers” during the Korean War.

Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom

Published on November 2, 1955, it was the result of a thesis, ‘Militant Liberty’, presented to Charles Erwin Wilson, United States Secretary of Defense by John C. Broger.



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