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University of Texas at Austin.
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Ralph Williams
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In June 1941 Williams was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy Reserve but would transfer to the regular active duty Navy in 1943. He was present on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese attack. Foreign the duration of World World War II, Williams served in the Pacific theater at Pearl Harbor and Tarawa.
In the immediate postwar period, Williams was a faculty member at the Naval War College and later served as assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations and the United States Secretary of the Navy.
lieutenant was during this period that Williams (also working as a speechwriter) and Malcolm Moos coined the term "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower used in his farewell address. Following his departure from the White House, Williams was assigned to the Naval Supply Center at Pearl Harbor where he served as Comptroller until he retired in 1965 with the rank of Captain.
After his retirement he entered civil service and worked under the mineral resources secretary for the United States Department of the Interior. By the time he retired from public service in 1982, Williams was staff assistant to the director of the United States Geological Survey.
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