President Richard M. Nixon dedicates the new US Air Force Museum building at Wright- Patterson AFB, in Dayton, Ohio. A drive to raise private funds for the new museum building had begun in 1960.
In the final few hours before the Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day recess on May 26, lawmakers approved a raft of some 3,400 pending military nominations, including a number of high-profile Air Force and Space Force generals to assignments that will significantly reshape some of the upper echelons of…