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L.B.J. He has been a close friend and counselor of Johnson's ever since. After John Kennedy's election, Vance moved to the Pentagon as general counsel to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, became Secretary of the Army a year later. In that post, and afterward as Deputy Defense Secretary, he worked as McNamara's partner in revitalizing the Army and instituting other reforms...
Crippling Trend. McNamara's plans are destined to undergo considerable trimming in Congress, where presidential pleas for a tax increase have been countered by demands for $6 billion in spending cuts-half of which probably will come from next year's defense budget and from some $22 billion in procurement funds for the development and purchase of future weapons systems. The Senate has pared $660 million from the procurement bill, which faces additional surgery in the House...
Despite the parsimonious mood of Congress, McNamara is criticized for having failed to allot enough defense funds for long-range planning. For three years, the war has forced the Pentagon to skimp on research and development. Says John S. Foster Jr., 45, director of defense research and engineering: "If this trend were allowed to continue, our national technological position soon would be crippled...
...guardian of McNamara's legacy under Clifford, Foster must balance military and budgetary considerations in planning the nation's future defenses. Among the projects at issue...
Secondly, the willingness of Senator Kennedy '48, to accept support from Robert McNamara indicates, to put it mildly, that he does not understand the basis of opposition to American foreign policy. The War in Vietnam is not the result of the demonic malevolence of Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow (all, incidentally, selected by John F. Kennedy '40), but follows quite directly from the policies pursued by the first Kennedy Administration. There is no confidence that a new Kennedy Administration would not feature the return to office of many men, of whom McNamara is only one, whose views...