Hearing on House Joint Resolutions 519, 596, and 937: To Provide for the Appointment of George Washington to the Grade of General of the Armies of the United States : Before the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, July 28, 1976

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Stran 4 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Stran 9 - Defense on the bill to provide for the appointment of George Washington to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States. We have no objection to the enactment of the proposed legislation.
Stran 1 - That a commander of the army of the United States shall be appointed, and commissioned by the style of " general of the armies of the United States:" and the present office and title of lieutenant-general shall thereafter be abolished.2 SEC.
Stran 5 - Washington was holding the office of commander with rank of lieutenant general, and which provided "that a commander of the Army of the United States shall be appointed and commissioned by the style of 'general of the armies of the United States'; and the present office and title of lieutenant general shall thereafter be abolished...
Stran 5 - Congress, when they passed legislation which stated that "a commander of the Army of the United States shall be appointed and commissioned by the style of General of the Armies of the United States * * * and the present office and title of Lieutenant General shall thereafter be abolished.
Stran 3 - Lieutenant-General be, and the same is hereby, revived in the Army of the United States of America ; and the President is hereby authorized, whenever he shall deem it expedient, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a commander of the army, to be selected, during war, from among those officers in the military service of the United States...
Stran 4 - President is hereby authorized, whenever he shall deem it expedient, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a general of the army of the United States, to be selected from among those officers in the military service of the United States...
Stran 4 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint on the retired list of the Army of the United States, from among those who have been generals commanding the armies of the United States, or...
Stran 4 - Lieutenant-General shall continue until a vacancy shall exist in the same, and no longer, and when such vacancy shall occur in either of said offices immediately thereupon all laws and parts of laws creating said office shall become inoperative, and shall, by virtue of this act, from thenceforward be held to be repealed.
Stran 4 - ... be authorized, under the direction and during the pleasure of the president, to command the armies of the United States.

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