Word: mcnamara
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...speech, Mrs. Mitchell asked her largely student audience, "What are you going to do with your lives? Are you going to be on the side of Che Guevara or of McNamara? Are you going to join the movement, or will your life be one of quiet desperation, drowned out by Black Label scotch and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation...
Robert S. McNamara, president of the World Bank, was named Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Memorial, and Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Chairman of the Board of IBM, will be the Finance Chairman. Samuel Brown, coordinator of student activities for the McCarthy campaign, is one of the seven members of the Executive Committee...
...number of missiles does not indicate relative strengths--both countries have been "equal" for most of this decade. Nixon's determination to increase the size of the arsenal is irrelevant as Robert McNamara explained in his final statement of military posture, because...
...Republican position also capitalizes on voters' vague suspicion that McNamara, who clearly had responsibility for nuclear planning, too often disregarded the advice his Joint Chiefs gave him. A Republican Secretary of Defense would probably be forced to adopt the same management techniques McNamara used to keep the Pentagon under control, but Nixon's rhetoric reassures uneasy voters...
...missiles and, presumably, atomic weapons on Cuban soil when he was called into his brother's office early on Tuesday morning, Oct. 16. 1962. Almost immediately, in the intense, often emotional debate, Bobby firmly declared himself opposed to a military strike but in favor of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's arguments for a naval blockade...