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There is, of course, only one way to test Hanoi's offer, and that is to stop the bombing. The raids over the North have long since outlived whatever usefulness they might have had in bolstering the morale of the Saigon regime. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has testified of their dubious military value. The Administration should have halted the air attacks long ago; in the wake of Hanoi's apparently firm offer of a quid pro quo, it is unconscionable that they continue...
...ahead. He has allowed the Democratic National Committee's once smooth machinery to rust. Indeed, whereas Lincoln's Cabinet complained that he carried his files around in the sweatband of his stovepipe hat, Johnson tries to carry the whole Democratic Party in his inside coat pocket. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara will soon be leaving him, and a debilitating exodus of top officials could follow. The far-out National Conference for New Politics has threatened to assemble 1,000,000 pickets outside Chicago's International Amphitheater in August to disrupt the Democratic Convention though there is some question whether...
...both, was on the verge of widening the war. As long as, the Communists can move supplies more or less freely through Laos and Cambodia and retreat there to lick their wounds, the U.S. will find it difficult to drive them from the field completely. Nor will the "McNamara Wall" now being built along the DMZ be effective if the Communists can end-run around it in Laos. At some point, and last week's events indicate that it may be sooner rather than later, the U.S. may decide that the idea of sanctuary is a luxury that it cannot...
...lamenting the departure of Mr. McNamara, my boss for the past two years, I should like to make a few observations on our era: glamour and personality, petty and inconsequential qualities seem to play much too great a role in the selection of our national leaders. Mr. McNamara, with his drab, oldfashioned, almost spartan public image, has proved a welcome and competent exception to the rule. His unquestioned integrity, coupled with his demonstrated ability, loyalty and courage, mark him as one of the truly unsung heroes of our time. It is regrettable that such enormous talents are to be relegated...
...McNamara. Under it, NATO will counter any Soviet attack with a three-phase graduated response that will begin with conventional weapons, step up to limited-range battlefield nuclear missiles, and progress to all-out H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union only if the Russians refuse to withdraw...