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...Bum Rap. On his return, McNamara gave the President a generally optimistic report on the war. Claims that the war was stalemated were "ridiculous," he said. On the pressing question of manpower, he said that requirements could be met without increasing draft calls or extending the one-year tours of duty for men assigned to Viet Nam. "I think some more U.S. military personnel will be required," he said. "I am not sure how many. I am certain of one thing: that we must use more effectively the personnel that are presently there...
...year-old mother in Columbia, S.C., he flew up to Washington to confer with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
Holcey Hip. The peculiar appeal of the Smothers is that they pull off these bum mots with such a deceptive air of wide-eyed innocence that the cornier the material, the louder the laughs. A more apt name for them would be the Mothers' Brothers. "We attract the kind of fans that want to mother us," says Dick, 28. "We're so college-looking and clean-cut," says Tom, 30. "The American Legion likes us and so does the left wing." And so does every wing of the younger generation. The boys have the jug-eared look...
...seems impossible to deny," Ford said, "that a war of ill-defined aims, of ill-defined scope, involving some weapons which apparently do not meet minimum requirements--such a war is a bum...
...added, "[any war] in which the adversary seems highly satisfied to have the United States involved is a bum...