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...years, and he pointed out that it met all the First Family's requirements: it has beaches (Massachusetts is one of the few states that permit private ones), a golf course (18 golf carts were shipped in for the Secret Service), a good price (former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara donated his house), populism (the Clintons could eschew the main residence for the guesthouse), and enough celebrities to be interesting without being rarefied...
Says Popkin: "I still think it's immoral to do nothing in the face of injustice."Courtesy Harvard ArchivesStudents block the car of Defense Secretary William S. McNamara on DeWolfe Street...
...wanted for decades. A Wisconsin native who graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, triple-majored at Oxford (economics, politics, history) and earned his doctorate in economics at M.I.T., he first worked in the Pentagon as an aide to then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Aspin entered Congress in 1971 with a maverick, antiwar attitude. Serving on the House Armed Services Committee, he earned a reputation as "Dr. No," but during the 1980s moved toward a more centrist position...
...workaholic; he supposedly sails for relaxation, but he sails alone. His total devotion to work is generally given as the explanation why his first marriage failed and why he hasn't remarried. He lives alone in a disorganized Georgetown row house piled high with books (his latest read: a McNamara biography). An associate says Aspin's idea of a vacation is "thinking defense in a different setting...
...McNamara, a former conference coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health, was recently name the new administrative assistant for conferences and services, the job Breslow held at operations for two weeks before his first promotion...