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There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the Vietnamese language. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately, to the Vietnamese it came out sounding quite different--"The duck wants to lie down." The Viets would always howl at this and Mac thought he had really scored. Vietnamese, is their answer to Sun Valley, Palm Beach and White Sulphur Springs. Both sides regard it as one of the trophies in this war and consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals...
...graceful goodbye is not one of Lyndon Johnson's fortes. In the past three years, several dozen of his top aides and administrators-including such onetime prodigies and proteges as Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti, Robert McNamara and Gardner Ackley-have resigned or been reassigned. And often the manner of their going has left an aftertaste of malice and misunderstanding...
...budget detail, Schultze had the difficult task of analyzing federal spending programs before an economy-minded Congress. Although the sharp rise in war spending dominated his attention, Schultze was still able to undertake a major streamlining of the Budget Bureau and to promote the cost-effectiveness techniques that McNamara introduced at the Pentagon. Though he could have commanded $100,000 a year, Schultze accepted modestly salaried posts as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and part-time professor at the University of Maryland...
...only concluded that the President's office, shaken by the recent Dow and McNamara incidents, is attempting to exert control over the kind and amount of publicity Harvard's Left will receive. Such interference is intolerable in a university and is flagrantly inconsist-with the ideals President Pusey insisted he was upholding at the time of the Dow demonstration...
...bridge is not repaired on time there are the bicycles and the boats to transport military equipment. Greene insists that one bike can carry 400 pounds of material. Five bikes, one ton, and then you think about what Secretary McNamara has said: less than 100 tons of materiel flow from North to South Vietnam each month. Before the bombing began, it was about six tons a month. You wonder whether American bombing can stop all of the 500,000 bycicles in North Vietnam...