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...address. Working with him on the speech were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, White House Aides Walt Rostow Harry McPherson and George Christian. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stall, was consulted. Also at Johnson's side, surprisingly, was Robert S. McNamara...
Faint Praise. At an unscheduled press conference, Johnson made much of the fact that his decision had been endorsed by Robert McNamara. He pulled from his pocket a rumpled piece of paper bearing, he said, McNamara's handwritten "alternatives" and "recommendations" and dated Jan. 19-more than a week before the Viet Cong's murderous Tet offensive. Thus did the President bring back the commander of the third greatest overseas force in American history, faint-praising him as "a very talented and very able officer." Westmoreland, it was clear, was no longer an unalloyed political asset...
...nations who created day's monetary system during three summer weeks of 1944 in the forest-cupped resort town of Bretton Woods, N.H. Out of their deliberations came the Washington-based International Monetary Fund and its sister agency, the World Bank (now headed by Rob ert Strange McNamara), which makes loans to underdeveloped countries. Bretton Woods' key decision was to stick with gold as the primary international monetary asset. In vain, Britain's John Maynard Keynes argued for creation of a new international money to sup plant gold. He warned that reliance on "the barbarous metal" would...
...shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North Viet...
...pros call him "Tiger," and every day for a week he went up the mountain after lunch to shoot "the Slot," one of the toughest runs at Snow-mass-at-Aspen. "Simply magnificent," gloated retired Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 51, a ski nut who has been using the Aspen ski slopes to unwind after seven crushing years in Washington. In his new job as president of the World Bank, the Tiger will be able to spend about half the year at his chalet in Snowmass, but last week's outing may prove unsurpassable. "This has been a beautiful...