President nominates Stafford for Pentagon role

  • ▲ Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, center, visits with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wallace and Terry Magill in the background during a Friday reception before the Rotary District 575 Conference banquet in Weatherford.
  • Stafford is congratulated by President Gerald Ford as he receives his General pin from his wife, Faye.
  • Stafford’s family participated in a Weatherford parade. Pictured from left are his wife Faye, Thomas Stafford, daughter Dionne, daughter Karin and mother Mary in the front seat.
  • Thomas P. Stafford
  • ◄ Members of the Russian and U.S. crews of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project are honored October 1975 during a parade. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, right, is joined by Chicago Mayor Richard Daly, second from right.
  • Gen. Stafford’s image as an astronaut greets visitors to the Stafford Archives at SWOSU.
Reprinted from WDN February 26, 1978 EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif (UPI) - Former astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, veteran of four space missions, has been nominated by President Carter for Air Force deputy chief of staff for research and development at the Pentagon, it was announced Friday. Stafford, 47, who has commanded the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base since Nov. 4,…

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