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...former Secretary of Defense returned to admit that he--and the "best and the brightest" of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations--were "wrong, terribly wrong" in prosecuting a losing effort against the Vietnamese Communists. His apology did not erase the horrors Vietnam's victims have suffered and still remember. However, he is to be commended for his candid and long-awaited admission of error...
Lithgow desribed similar difficulties, which helinked to his academic background. "You go toHarvard, and you are among the brightest, thebest, and you know you are [among them]...[Butthen] you're on the streets, you are auditioningfor Drano commercials, and soap operas, anythingyou can get, anything. And I think it may be avery specific difficulty for people who come froman environment like [Harvard]," he said...
...very excited about joining the faculty of Harvard," Caramazza said. "It has the reputation of having some of the very brightest undergraduates...
...Retrospect is the title of the socalled "candid, poignant" book by the former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Sitting in his beautiful office near the White House in Washington D.C., the old man, once revered to as the "Best and the Brightest," now 78 years old, punches his right first into his left palm with strength and determination, as if all these silent years of retrospective meditation have finally brought him a point of self-revival. "We were wrong, terribly wrong," he declares. And suddenly, he feels the monkey is off his back...
...these principles and traditions, ambiguous and politically flexible as they have always been, led the "Best and the Brightest" man to throw the nation into a decade of turmoil, destroying a whole generation physically and psychologically. Seeing the mistake snowballing into a tragedy, wise people cried out, protested, and ended up suffering the most. McNamara caused it all, then left office, took the helm of the Ford Motor Company and went to the World Bank, where he became an excellent leader again, and is now safe and sound, his hair still slicked back as 30 years ago. Hey, think about...