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...Robert McNamara's accomplishments [Dec. 8] will live long after his littie hecklers are forgotten. One may not agree with all of his policies or actions, but in this complex world he had the courage to try. In this hour, which must be painful to him, the American people should give him a rousing cheer for a job well done...
There is speculation that the task force will also recommend a new police commissioner, although Edmund L. McNamara still has four years remaining in his term of office...
Reischauer has a very keen sense of his own physical and intellectual limitations--and of where his own speciality should lead him. The stamina of men like Rusk and McNamara amazes him. "These are bone-crushing jobs," he said. In the more limited job of Ambassador, Reischauer at first felt ffihe was "on the edge of a precipice: one false move could cause a catastrophe," and marvels at Rusk's ability to step off a plane after wearying world-wide trips and still make errorless, careful statements to the press...
...since World War II, where he served with distinction as an artillery commander, he fits ideally the cerebral requirements of modern military leadership. Like the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom the commandant meets regularly as an associate member, Chapman is largely a product of Robert McNamara's industrialized Pentagon; last August he was given the Armed Forces Management Association's annual merit award for his mastery of management techniques in running the corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters-and for the past five months as assistant...
...Chapman and both are experts on Viet Nam. Both are also controversial. Waltwhom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy, has earned enemies with a tongue that is as sharp as his mind...