Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of missiles does not indicate relative strengths--both countries have been "equal" for most of this decade. Nixon's determination to increase the size of the arsenal is irrelevant as Robert McNamara explained in his final statement of military posture, because...
...Republican position also capitalizes on voters' vague suspicion that McNamara, who clearly had responsibility for nuclear planning, too often disregarded the advice his Joint Chiefs gave him. A Republican Secretary of Defense would probably be forced to adopt the same management techniques McNamara used to keep the Pentagon under control, but Nixon's rhetoric reassures uneasy voters...
John Gardner, who resigned as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in January, might be coaxed back in a Humphrey Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
...missiles and, presumably, atomic weapons on Cuban soil when he was called into his brother's office early on Tuesday morning, Oct. 16. 1962. Almost immediately, in the intense, often emotional debate, Bobby firmly declared himself opposed to a military strike but in favor of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's arguments for a naval blockade...
Even before he retired as Air Force Chief of Staff nearly four years ago, the bluff, iron-willed flier had become involved in policy scraps that shaded into the political Most notable was his running public quarrel with then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over whether, as thought, manned bombers should be equally important as missiles in the U.S. deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy...