Word: mcnamara
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...group en masse. Thus while it is frowned on to yawn, fidget and mutter when listening to a lecturer who you find less than stimulating, if you can get enough people to join, you have a demonstration. Demonstrations are not appropriate with all speakers, but Robert S. McNamara, president of the World Bank, and Secretary of Defense under Johnson, will speak at the Boston Sheraton Hotel this Friday at 1 p.m. His speech will follow a presentation of an award to McNamara by the World Affairs Council of Boston. Unfortunately, reservations are required (267-6674) for the $2 admission tickets...
First Carter named as Defense Secretary Harold Brown, president of the California Institute of Technology, who headed weapons research at the Pentagon in the McNamara years. In his final session, after a quick trip to Chicago for the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley, Carter named three more old hands. To run Health, Education and Welfare, Carter recruited Joseph Califano, Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy chief. To head the energy agency that he hopes to expand into a Cabinet department, Carter chose his house Republican, James Schlesinger, whose resume is getting to be as lengthy as Elliot Richardson...
...Bronx High School of Science, finished Columbia at the head of his class by age 17, had his doctorate in physics from Columbia by 22. Two years later he was a protégé of Edward Teller, a leader in developing the hydrogen bomb. As one of Robert McNamara's "Whiz Kids" and research director of the Defense Department by the time he was 33, he was nicknamed Childe Harold. Now a mature 49, the brilliant scientist-manager was near the top of Jimmy Carter's talent list from the first...
...Califano grew "bored with practicing law and splitting stocks." He fired off a job application to the then general counsel for the Department of Defense, Cyrus Vance, in 1961 and was hired four days after being interviewed. Three years later he emerged as special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and a year after that held the same post under Johnson as assistant in charge of domestic programs...
...Senators and aides waged their fight in Washington, they persuaded some newsmen to re-examine Brown's Pentagon record. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak did so in a critical way, finding Brown to be inconsistent. First, he successfully resisted McNamara's efforts to abandon the bombing of North Viet Nam's military supply centers and transportation facilities (at one point Brown urged mining and bombing Haiphong harbor). Then, after the war, he pushed for faster disarmament agreements with the Soviets. In fact, the specific means of waging war are not really in conflict with ways...