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...least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage swipe at Nixon, thereby giving the "chronic campaigner" a boost that may find its way into the history books. And, in denying that he had been planning a last-minute blitz of twelve...
Though restrained and formal during the taped WHRB interview, McNamara was relaxed and engaging in conversation afterward. His responses were concise, tightly reasoned point-by-point capsule analyses. But his passion for exhausting the possibility of every idea sometimes carried his logic further than he meant to go on the record. And at these points, one of his aides would remind the secretary that if he let the remark stand he would be quoted in such a way on this or that issue; and the secretary would regretfully take it off the record. After one of these reminders, McNamara grinned...
...after he returned from Asia, Lyndon Johnson summoned news photographers to the Cabinet Room of the White House for a picture-taking session. What was the occasion? "I'll give you the caption later," the President told the puzzled cameramen. Minutes afterward-when the stock exchanges had closed for the day on Wall Street-Johnson sent for reporters. They assumed that he was going to brief them on his last-minute campaign swing. Instead, he began reading a prepared statement...
...full concurrence of Saigon, emphasize an accelerated effort to "forge a social revolution, even as the conflict continues." They include wider use of South Vietnamese troops in "clear-and-hold" actions designed not only to rid villages of guerrillas but also to help them build a more productive society afterward, a top-priority program of land reform and agricultural modernization, and scrupulous observance of the Geneva conventions on war prisoners. In the political field, the document commits Saigon to bend every effort to complete its constitution by March, the holding of nationwide elections by October and of village and hamlet...
...Sound of Sense. Incredibly, Frost complained for years afterward that his grandfather had sent him into farming "to die," and then cheated him out of a larger fortune. Thompson suggests that this notion was typical of Frost's self-indulgent "mythmaking," a compulsion to see himself as a hero battling against insuperable odds. This particular fancy gained a wide audience when Frost went to England in 1912 and published two collections of poems. It was Ezra Pound who, in his review of A Boy's Will, launched the poet and the myth by singling out In Neglect...