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John Gardner, who resigned as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in January, might be coaxed back in a Humphrey Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet...
Even before he retired as Air Force Chief of Staff nearly four years ago, the bluff, iron-willed flier had become involved in policy scraps that shaded into the political Most notable was his running public quarrel with then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over whether, as thought, manned bombers should be equally important as missiles in the U.S. deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy...
...Essence of Security, McNamara...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet...