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...McNamara estimates that fully half a million North Vietnamese have had to be mobilized to repair bombing damage. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, commander of all Pacific forces, testified before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee's hearings on the air war that the "drawdown on farm labor has reduced food production, and large amounts of food now have to be imported." All told, he said, about half of the North's war-supporting industry has been destroyed or disrupted...
...strike photos of North Vietnamese targets within minutes of their emergence from the developing fluids. "Hell," he says, "F.D.R. would have waited a week" for similar results. That speed, of course, makes it all the more tempting for the President and his key advisers, most notably Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, to run the war at every level, down to platoon and squad actions...
Curing Riots. Not that Aviation Week does anything to undermine the aerospace industry. It enthusiastically supports expansion of the industry and opposes Defense Secretary McNamara's attempts to economize on aerospace purchases. Prone to be overexcited by Soviet technical achievements, the magazine supports the establishment of an anti-ballistic missile system. An Air Force intelligence officer in World War II, later public relations director of United Aircraft, Hotz is a superhawk to the point of suggesting that the Sino-Soviet split may be a ruse to lull the U.S. into a false sense of security...
...Romney and Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanagh were convinced that they would need Army aid: a wire went off to the White House saying that there was "reasonable doubt" that the situation could be contained. The President turned to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and, at 11:02 a.m., ordered up the paratroops-but sent them only as far as Selfridge Air Force Base outside Detroit, not into the riot area itself...
...relevant to the final decision as the appeal of the goals they seek or the cogency and wisdom of their arguments." In history and memoir, which fortunately occupy the bulk of the book, Hilsman is pungent and direct in his appraisal of men and events. Defense Secretary McNamara is described as "almost totally lacking in self-doubt," former CIA Director John McCone as a man with "a rough and ready sense of decency" that redeems his "streak of the alley fighter...