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...reports were distributed simultaneously to the State Department's seventh-floor Operations Center, the Pentagon's basement National Military Command Center and the Situation Room in the basement of the White House. Duty officers immediately began calling second-echelon officials at their homes; Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was not alerted until 12:23 a.m. By 12:45, White House Aide Walt Rostow was convinced that the situation was serious and drove to the White House, arriving there at 1:15. Shortly after 2 a.m., he telephoned the President, who stayed in bed but was briefed during...
...President went into his crisis routine, meeting Rostow, conferring by telephone with Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms. The first afternoon of the crisis, an informal "Planning Committee"-reminiscent of the Executive Committee (ExComm) set up under President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962-began to emerge. It included Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Press Secretary George Christian, UnderSecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Sam Berger, and Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke...
...foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace in almost runproof harmony. Though it is frayed today by dissent over Viet Nam, Johnson would like nothing better than to reknit the cloth of American purpose. Last week he seized an opportunity to do so. To succeed Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, the President chose Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, a veteran Washington lawyer and presidential confidant who is both loyal to Lyndon and well liked by key Congressmen, a trusted figure in three Administrations and yet one who is completely his own man on any subject of contemporary...
...Hell" campaign. His only major official tie to Government is the unpaid chairmanship of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees all espionage operations. Yet from this unobtrusive vantage point, Clifford is counted one of the five most powerful men in Washington next to the President. With McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, he formed part of the small, leakproof ring of Johnson's cronies, privy to the Government's most hermetic secrets and summoned to advise on questions of great moment...
...current politics and history. To sift through the grammar is easy enough but the tonal business is frustrating. One word may have two, three, or even four completely different meanings depending upon the pitch and stress you use. There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the language on his frequent visits to Saigon. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides never told him that the printed words for the phrase have to be pronounced quite precisely to convey the message...