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Military engineers will start work late this year or early in 1968 on the barrier, known so far to the Pentagon as Project Dye Marker and immediately nicknamed "McNamara's Wall." But it will be no ordinary wall: instead of a Maginot line of concrete and steel, great tracts of rugged, mountainous jungle will be guarded by hidden electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better...
...McNamara's news was greeted sympathetically by Washington critics of the war, who see the barrier as a possible first step to scale down the bombing of North Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged such a barricade since April. But there was little enthusiasm from soldiers. They oppose any attempt to tie down troops in static positions while the enemy roams free. "Militarily, it's no great shakes," grumbled a Marine officer. An Army general was kinder. "I guess it can't hurt anything," he hazarded, "if it doesn't draw...
Childish Stories. At the risk of erecting a credibility wall between himself and the public by leaving almost every question unanswered, McNamara forbade all discussion of the barrier by military men to stop any seepage of information valuable to the enemy. Although he promised to keep Congress up to date, American taxpayers may never know the cost ($1 billion over two years, according to one estimate) or the effectiveness of McNamara's stratagem...
...misunderstood," he snapped. "If you want to get into a discussion of who's been brainwashing who, I suggest you take a look at what the Administration has been telling the American people." With that, he whipped out a newspaper clipping in which Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was quoted as saying, just before the 1966 election, that draft calls might be cut the following year. "The information was not accurate," said Romney. The Pentagon quickly replied that "it is the Governor who is giving inaccurate information," noting that draft calls for the first ten months...
Perhaps the unkindest cut of all, because of its unintentional but magnificent ambiguity, came from Leonard Hall, chairman of the Romney for President committee. "I think it finally comes down to an issue of credibility between Governor Romney and Secretary McNamara," he said. "And given that choice, I have no doubt whom the American people will support...