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McNamara overawed the generals and admirals who worked for him, and he barely disguised his contempt for the military way of doing things. His notion of opening a conversation was not "Hello" but "I've got ten minutes for this one." And ten minutes it was. The military resented the fact that he and his small band of "Whiz Kids" shunned their advice and blithely turned down the weapons they wanted. They grudgingly admitted that McNamara's cost-effectiveness program had brought rationality to much Pentagon planning, but they could not forgive him for never admitting...
...over the Purloined Papers was another journalistic controversy. The questions: Does First Amendment protection extend to television and allow it to freely edit news? Does the Government have the right to judge whether TV's editing is deceptive? The answer may come soon, and with it perhaps a contempt-of-Congress citation for the president...
Staggers: In my opinion, you are now in contempt...
...players have been "carrying guns and several others are known to have hidden knives-to use as protection in case of fights among themselves." Hall went on to report that several Angels openly considered ailing Outfielder Tony Conigliaro "a malingering misfit." Recently, they are said to have shown their contempt by laying Tony's uniform on a stretcher with a pair of crossed crutches and some sanitary napkins and then splattering everything with catsup. On another occasion, Hall wrote, some players deliberately tried to hit General Manager Dick Walsh (known to the team as "the Smiling Python") with line...
Lindsay: "The state government is acting with a combination of arrogance and contempt...