Word: mcnamara
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Reischauer has a very keen sense of his own physical and intellectual limitations--and of where his own speciality should lead him. The stamina of men like Rusk and McNamara amazes him. "These are bone-crushing jobs," he said. In the more limited job of Ambassador, Reischauer at first felt ffihe was "on the edge of a precipice: one false move could cause a catastrophe," and marvels at Rusk's ability to step off a plane after wearying world-wide trips and still make errorless, careful statements to the press...
...unpopular but efficient performance in his final year as Secretary of Defense of the U.S., during which he successfully perpetrated his "own" war, I nominate Robert S. McNamara...
...since World War II, where he served with distinction as an artillery commander, he fits ideally the cerebral requirements of modern military leadership. Like the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom the commandant meets regularly as an associate member, Chapman is largely a product of Robert McNamara's industrialized Pentagon; last August he was given the Armed Forces Management Association's annual merit award for his mastery of management techniques in running the corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters-and for the past five months as assistant...
...Chapman and both are experts on Viet Nam. Both are also controversial. Waltwhom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy, has earned enemies with a tongue that is as sharp as his mind...
Though the President has the utmost trust in Rusk, his departure would allay criticism of the Administration as effectively as McNamara's doubtless will -for awhile. Both are damned by dissidents as architects of the war. The all-purpose candidate for either post might well be former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, 48. A Republican who worked for Kennedy and Johnson and was tapped for duty by L.B.J. during the Arab-Israeli war last summer, his vigorous voice is still being raised in effective support of Johnsonian policies...