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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay out of the news, makes it big when it has something that it wants to tell. So it was last week when Richard Helms was named to replace Admiral William Raborn, 61, as director of the CIA. And, as usual, there were countless cloak-and-dagger theories to explain the switch. President Johnson compounded the conspiracy theories by burying the news in a clutch of routine personnel announcements...
Dietz's supposed irrationality is often invoked to explain why he hung on in his fight against the Coop, winking at setbacks from zoning boards and courts. But, for those who know Dietz, it isn't much of an explanation...
Aside from Romney, few governors have higher political ambitions, which may explain their silence on Vietnam. Their greatest importance, as far as affecting policy is concerned, will be the effect of their showing on their states' congressional delegations. If Romney, for example, runs strongly, he may defeat all four of Michigan's marginal Congressional seats and sweep newly-appointed Senator Robert Griffin into a full term. The expected weak showing of Governor Rockefeller of New York, on the other hand, may help produce surprise victories for three of four marginal Democrats--a result which would tend to overstate the President...
...Discuss the relationships and differences between Dulles' strategy of massive retaliation and MacNamara's doctrine of flexible response. Indicate the role of conventional war forces in each strategy." In other questions cadets must discuss the impact of new technology on strategy and tactics in the Civil War. Or explain the significance of limited warfare, as opposed to conventional warfare, within the context of nuclear stalemate. About half of the questions on most of the ROTC exams are essays...
When asked, some cadets will say that they enrolled in ROTC because they believe military service is a personal obligation which they have to their country. "I owe my country a couple of years of my life," one says. Others explain they enrolled in ROTC because they came to Harvard from military schools, or because they come from military families...