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Whether or not Clifford's optimism on Viet Nam proves to be justified, he faces another battle with even larger implications for the nation's security. From Robert McNamara, Clifford inherited responsibility for the nation's long-range defense planning, a process that must necessarily be programmed from five to ten years ahead. McNamara's legacy was an $80 billion 1969 budget and elaborate blueprints projecting the nation's defenses into the next decade...
...Since Mr. McNamara has been telling us about Senator Kennedy's role in formulating foreign policy while a member of his brother's Cabinet [April 19], it would only seem fair that McNamara inform us, in detail, of Bobby's efforts at that time to enlarge our commitment in Viet...
Some time after President Johnson said that he would not run again, Robert McNamara, new president of the World Bank, fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara could not endorse Kennedy. But who could complain if he recounted Bobby's "energy and courage, compassion and wisdom" during the crises of his brother's Administration...
...Thus McNamara's effusive praise was taped for TV plugs in the Kennedy campaign-and McNamara landed in the midst of a Pentagon-sized controversy. It was a curious gaffe on both sides. McNamara will not find it any easier now to pry money from the U.S. Congress, which provides 27% of the bank's funds. Kennedy will scarcely gain. He has always dissociated himself from the Johnson Administration and the Viet Nam war. Yet no official, save Dean Rusk, has been more closely associated with both than Robert S. McNamara...
...afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next day, he warned that such spending would only feed inflation and thus starve the slum dweller. Nixon turned with greater vivacity to the Democrats. "McCarthy has the intellectuals, Hubert has Lyndon and Bobby has the World Bank," he quipped vis-a-vis Robert McNamara's fulsome endorsement of Kennedy. Nixon had just had a haircut, and he noted that R.F.K. had got one too. "I've known Bobby Kennedy for 14 years, and he gets a haircut about this time every year...