within the Air Force that eventually led to the modernization of the Air Force. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff In 1974, following the Admiral Thomas Moorer scheduled for retirement as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brown was tapped by President Richard Nixon and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger to succeed Moorer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Many including former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara whom Brown once work with as his military assistant has predicted that Brown would someday be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to General Robert J. Dixon who once served and a protégé of Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, when White was lying ill in the hospital due to terminal leukemia in 1964, General White tell General Dixon to congratulate George S. Brown on behalf of General White if someday Brown becomes Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A prophecy of General Thomas D. White which eventually become true ten years later and what was also told on Brown Biography book "Destined for Stars" written by Edgar F. Puryear, Jr. George S. Brown was sworn in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is sworn in as Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff by Department of Defense General Counsel Martin Hoffman in a ceremony held in the Pentagon on July 1, 1974, which was attend by Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and President Richard Nixon. In this capacity, Brown is now the highest-ranking and most senior military officer within the United States Armed Forces and is also the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense and the national Security Council. Brown also become the first Air Force General to held the position Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following the 14 years hiatus of Air Force General within the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff position, since General Nathan F. Twining retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on August 15, 1960. However, not long after Brown assuming the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff position, President Richard Nixon who appointed Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to resign from the presidency due to the Watergate Scandal and was succeeded by his Vice President Gerald Ford who assumed the presidency following Nixon resignation. Brown attended Nixon departure at the