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...Maniac. Determined to show that the U.S. means business, the Planning Committee endorsed McNamara's suggestion for a limited call-up of air units, and decided to take the matter to the United Nations. Johnson also appeared on a nationwide TV hookup to explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also...
Like Mother. In the process, Gardner gave HEW a sense of purpose, turning what Johnson had called an unmanageable "hodgepodge" into a well-ordered, efficient department. The Secretary, the President observed last year, "does the same thing McNamara does, but in a compassionate way. He does it like Mother would do." Unlike Robert McNamara, whose primary loyalty was to the President he served, rather than to the Defense Department, Gardner was devoted to the realization of a better, healthier, more equitable life for the American people...
...distinctive as the double-breasted suits he continued to wear all through the two-button era. Last week, during his first center-stage performance as a Cabinet officer-designate, a 2½-hour appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he left the strong impression that Robert S. McNamara's succes sor as Secretary of Defense will be flexible in tactics but firm in strategy...
Clifford, 61, set the tone that is likely to dominate his Pentagon reign by taking a tough stand on Viet Nam. Unlike McNamara, who has questioned the military value of bombing North Viet Nam, he supported the aerial campaign and strongly opposed any pause "under present circumstances." For the air raids to stop, said Clifford, paraphrasing President Johnson's San Antonio declaration last Sept. 29, North Viet Nam must "agree to start negotiations promptly and not take advantage of the pause...
Tougher Policies. Though Clifford handled questions from the committee with notable finesse, there was no mistaking that he planned to follow policies that will be tougher, and more palatable to senior military experts on Capitol Hill, than were McNamara's. Clifford emphatically endorsed a program of "nuclear superiority" vis-a-vis Russia; McNamara had advocated a program of "nuclear parity." Without committing himself, Clifford also supported such congressional pet projects -which McNamara opposed-as development of an advanced manned bomber to replace the B-52 and construction of a greatly expanded nuclear fleet of warships. He also expressed serious...