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...also happened that the Hilsman cable was sent on a Saturday. A junior officer was manning the Viet Nam desk when the cable with the Harriman approval came in. The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman-who apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up. And among the many Pentagon officials enraged by it was the highest-up: Defense Secretary McNamara. Summarizing McNamara's reaction, a Defense official said: "While it lasted, it was an atomic blast...
...Harvard's Center for East Asian Studies. He has spent 18 years in Japan, has a Japanese wife, is fluent in Japanese, reads Chinese, and is one of the leading U.S. authorities on Asian literature and history. Reischauer has had State Department experience as a Far Eastern deskman during Asia's postwar upheaval (1945-46), is now Ambassador to Japan...
...much-revered dens of Pentagon bureaucracy. Defense Secretary Robert S. (for Strange, his mother's maiden name) McNamara should be tiptoeing through the cutbacks and the rest of his job with all of the lip-biting hesitancy of a young maiden at her first prom. Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction. But Bob McNamara, his well-slicked hair carefully parted, his rimless glasses gleaming, approaches his job with...
Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass. With her SOS unheard, Indy would not have been missed until she became overdue at Leyte two days later. There the fact that she was overdue was overlooked for more than a day. It was not immediately reported because a loophole-riddled directive saying "Arrival reports shall not be made for combatant ships" was construed to mean that non-arrivals were not to be reported either...
...chance to show his face to the people in all 29 states. Crowds have been well-ordered and speeches safe: "Every Mexican has the right to enjoy the liberty created by our heroes." But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired López Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count. Like his predecessor, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he will probably head a government that talks to the left in public but runs down the political middle...