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mander for operations and then as vice commander of the Seventh Air Force.
•  He later commanded U.S. Air Forces in Europe, receiving a fourth star in 1971.
•  Three years later, President Richard Nixon tapped Jones to be Air Force chief of staff. He led a reorganization of the command structure.
•  President Jimmy Carter appointed Jones as Joint Chiefs chairman in 1978 and again in 1980.
•  Jones accompanied Carter to Vienna for SALT II talks with the Soviet Union in 1979, and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, helped transform a rapid deployment force for southwest Asia that Carter established into a regional unified command.
•  According to The Times, some Republican senators criticized Jones for publicly backing Carter's cancellation of the B-1 bomber, among other policies. But Jones said he felt he had a constitutional obligation to support civilian superiors publicly even if he offered different advice in private.
•  Still, Franklin said, "He really loved working with President Carter."
•  She also has more personal memories of her father, such as when the legendary World War II general Omar Bradley was in a wheelchair and "my dad took him all around the Pentagon when he was chairman."
•  Jones' son David said he was in high school when his father was Joint Chiefs chairman, but that his father put family first.
•  "We did so much together," recalled the younger Jones, of Sterling, Va. "Every moment he had he was not at work, he'd devote to family."
•  He recalled his father being "extremely honest" and "larger than life" to him.
•  Jones completed his second term as Joint Chiefs chairman during the Reagan administration, and retired from the military in July 1982. Jones was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the board of the American Red Cross. He also served on the boards of General Electric and Youth Service, USA, Inc., and was on the Council on Foreign Relations.
•  Jones' wife of 67 years, Lois, died in 2009
•  In addition to Franklin and David Jones, the general is survived by a daughter, Susan Coffin of Scottsdale, Ariz., a sister, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Burial will be at Arlington National Cemetery.
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