Word: mccone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour started in Washington, with a briefing by John McCone, head of the Central Intelligence Agency. After a stop in Paris, where TIME'S principal Asia correspondents joined the party, the first visit was to Pakistan. At his Karachi residence, Sandhurst-educated President Ayub Khan, a red rose in his lapel, bluntly discussed the problems facing his country and the U.S. Chief among these is Pakistan's bitterness over American military aid to India, which Ayub feels will sooner or later be used not against the Communists in Asia but against his own country. As a result, Pakistan...
...Johnson means to rebuild his team, he is certainly going about it slowly and cautiously. The word last week was that the President is seeking no major Cabinet changes, at least for the present, although Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, HEW's Boss Anthony Celebrezze, and CIA Director John McCone all may resign soon. Nor is Johnson rushing to fill the vacancy left by Bobby Kennedy, though the post may well go eventually to Nicholas Katzenbach, who is now Acting Attorney General...
...commission did, however, suggest that a top-level committee be set up to study the problem. No sooner urged than done. Last week President Johnson named as members: Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, CIA Director John McCone and White House Aide McGeorge Bundy...
...require moving warships into territorial waters. McNamara suggested instead an air strike against five specific targets-four torpedo-boat bases and an oil storage facility. Rusk thought it might be wiser to hit two of the southernmost bases first and save the others for a possible second-stage attack. McCone argued for clobbering all five places, in view of the gravity of the North Vietnamese "act of war" against the destroyers. That was it. "All right," said the President...
...massive military machinery gathered its strength, Lyndon Johnson and McNamara briefed the National Security Council and summoned congressional leaders to the White House. McNamara, Rusk, McCone and Wheeler explained the events and the plans. The President was grim, decisive. He made it clear he was informing his old Capitol Hill colleagues, not asking their advice. "These are our plans," he snapped...