Secretary of the Navy John Warner speaks at a meeting. Secretary of the Navy John Warner has refused to talk with a top civilian cost controller about his abrupt demotion and has ordered that he appeal through the same admiral who is trying to steer him to a backwater job. Gordon Rule, a $36,000-a-year Navy cost monitor, was ordered reassigned to a consultant's post last week after labeling as a mistake President Nixon's choice of Roy Ash to become the government's budget chief. Ash formerly was president of Litton Industries, which has been in dispute with the Navy over shipbuilding contract problems.

Photo is dated 1972.

Photo measures 8 x 8.25 inches.