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...shortage of helicopters is easily detected and quickly cured. But the ultimate effects of McNamara's decisions to scrap projects such as the Air Force's Dyna-soar spacecraft and to phase out long-range heavy bombers, will not be fully measurable for years. McNamara has been spending $7 billion a year for research and development, far more than had been allocated previously; yet he is accused of killing more projects than he carries out. Ten years hence, the nuclear aircraft engine, which he abandoned, may prove to be a vital necessity...
...establishing civilian control of the Pentagon as a fact of life as well as a theory, McNamara perhaps went too far in alienating service officers. He not only outthought and outmaneuvered such potentates as General Curtis LeMay, but he sometimes humiliated them as well. Within the Pentagon his information policies throttled internal dissent. Even Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, himself a rebel against traditional military procedure, protested: "Independence of expression has now become almost unthinkable...
...balance, nonetheless, McNamara's accomplishments must rank as historic, while his mistakes seem ephemeral by comparison. The generals themselves recognize that nothing like McNamara has ever happened to the Pentagon, or is likely to again very soon. "He is the only one," says Army Chief of Staff Harold Johnson, "who has ever...
...quickest way to change Lyndon Johnson's mind about a high-level appointment is to predict who the man will be. In the case of a successor to Robert McNamara, newsmen and Washington officials alike were doubly leary of trying to read the President's mind. Even so, more than a few observers were warily-and hopefully-raising the name of Cyrus Roberts Vance, the former Deputy Defense Secretary whom Johnson had drafted for an arduous diplomatic assignment in Cyprus (see THE WORLD) well after Mc-Namara's departure was decided...
...only to supervise the U.S. Army during the Detroit riots last summer, but to mediate the latest Mediterranean mix-up as well, vouched for the President's trust in the handsome, lanky lawyer. Lyndon has said he would like a man experienced in government to succeed McNamara-and Vance is clearly experienced...