Word: mcnamara
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WASHINGTON, Nov 29--Robert S. McNamara announced tonight that he is resigning his post as Secretary of Defense to become president of the World Bank...
President Johnson followed McNamara's announcement with a statement that the major defense policies initiated under McNamara would not in any way be altered by the change in personnel. He also said he had asked the Defense Secretary to stay long enough to finish the military program and financial budget for the fiscal year...
...President praised McNamara's performance of the duties of Defense Secretary, but said, "I could not justify asking Secretary McNamara indefinitely to continue to bear the enormous burdens of his position nor could I, in justice to him and to this nation's obligations to the World Bank, refrain from recommending that he be selected as president of the bank...
...author of the first volume, Merton J. Peck, now professor of economics at Yale University, felt that it had "some impact, but how great an impact I couldn't say" on the changes made by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in the awarding of defense contracts. "It didn't outsell Earle Stanley Gardner in the Pentagon bookstore, but it sold well for its type of book," Peck commented...
...development for so long, why did Washington wait until last week to make it official? One answer is that it was only in the past few weeks that analysts felt the evidence was strong enough. Also, with congressional hearings this week on the nation's missile defense system, McNamara obviously wanted to use his own platform for such a significant disclosure. Finally, no doubt, Washington felt that Moscow might make the announcement during this week's 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Revolution, and thus create the shattering impression that the U.S. was now wide open to destruction...