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Chilling Parallels. "This emphatically is not 'Westmoreland's War,' " observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief John Steele. "In years past, it has been quite properly referred to as 'McNamara's War,' and currently it can be referred to as 'Johnson's War.' From no source is there real criticism yet of Westy's military activities. This will come should Khe Sanh, by some horrible fate, fall...
...House, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), the committee's senior Democratic member, were opposed from the start and held fast. It is common knowledge in Washington that both men bitterly dislike Defense Secretary McNamara and were loath to support any reform so close to his heart. Despite their opposition, the House bill was only slightly more restrictive than the Senate's, providing for Presidential institution of a lottery only after a 60-day notice period during which Congress could act to veto...
...kept constant alert, pouncing on more than 25 reports that were rushed to him through the evening and night. At 5 a.m., he was up for a briefing in the basement Situation Room of the White House. Before breakfast, he was on the phone twice to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "He has a mental alarm clock," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. "He's working like a dog, keeping tabs on everything...
FIVE years ago, the Dow and McNamara protests would have been unthinkable. But in the intervening years, not only has the war gotten worse, but the tone of undergraduate life has changed. Students arrive here with far more sophisticated awareness of sex, drugs, and student activism. Far more than any who came before them, they are questioning the old order. They are not only agonized by the War in Vietnam and by the country's refusal to face the triple crisis of poverty, race, and urban life. They believe morality must be injected into the system somewhere, and they think...
...Brinksmanship" by Ernest J. Wilson, one of two promising new writers on the Lampoon, contains clever characterizations of our favorite national heroes--Ike, McNamara, Rusk. The other rising light on the magazine is James T. Hill, who contributes a bizarre tale of a "former neo-Trotsktie" who goes "from Molotov to White House cocktails in one weekend with hardly a brainwash...