Word: mcnamara
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...aware that every comment, however unkindly phrased or crudely expressed, might one day be revealed. The names on the Kennedy logs evoked an eventful era: General Douglas MacArthur, former Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Rusk said he had "no forebodings" about what the tapes may reveal, adding: "I doubt that the transcripts will shed very much new historical light." McNamara noted that all important meetings involve the presence of an official transcriber, so "I knew damn well that a record was being made of everything I said." Compared with the Nixon tapes, he predicted, "you won't hear many expletives...
...level of opposition in the south; Wallace called troop infiltration to the south "the most critical factor in the war." The Vietnam era--the go-go '60s, when the computer embodied all that was sleek and modern about America--had an obsession with numbers, and Robert S. McNamara installed his B-School brand of systems analysis in the Pentagon. There, he and his elite corps tried to guide the war by the cold, hard, objective numbers...
...Edwards 7 0-0 14, D. Sells 4 1-1 9, S. McNamara 0 0-0 0, T. Hassett 0 2-2 2, T. Conlan 1 0-0 2, K. Jones 1 0-0 2, M. Stewart 5 1-2 11, P. Anderson 9 4-4 22, B. Luby 0 2-2 2, T. Zanze 0 0-0 0. Totals...
...would think that if the foreign policy establishment had learned anything from the folly in Vietnam or the disintegration in Iran, it was that might no longer makes right in the international arena. Messrs. McNamara, Kissinger and Brown, to name a few proponents of the deal, do not seem to have absorbed this. Perhaps their support of the AWACs package should have sent a message to those who were voting. The selling of AWACs represents a questionable means to a questionable...