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...phrases that really rocked the U.N. Plaza were those of Stokely Carmichael: "There is a higher law than the law of Racist McNamara; there is a higher law than the law of the fool Dean Rusk; there is a higher law than the law of the buffoon Lyndon Baines Johnson." Though Stokely never defined it, his law was demagoguery, pitched to all authority haters...
...Vietnam"--a group of Greenwich Village intellectuals staged six different "carnivals of death" on floats around the Park. One show consisted of poetry readings delivered from a stage decorated with sculptures of mutilated babies and severed hands. The whole thing was entitled, "Vietnam Monument, Designed by Johnson, McNamara...
...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara never tires of pointing out, Viet Nam has necessitated neither the mobilization of reserves nor the imposition of wage-and-price controls at home. Yet the war has inevitably caused strains and shortages, none of them potentially more perilous than the dwindling supply of military aviators. Ironically, the attrition has resulted not so much from the hazards of Hanoi's MIGs and antiaircraft batteries as from the built-in competitiveness of American society in the jet and space...
Already the services have replaced some bright, energetic young men with older, more senior pilots who normally would be flying subsonic desks in the Pentagon or stateside bases. McNamara himself recently ordered a screening of 1,864 Washington-based flyers to see if their jobs could not be held down by nonaviators. Stepped-up recruitment and training programs in all services should overcome the slump eventually, but as one Navy captain lamented: "We won't be well until sometime between...
What the Department wants to know is how "systems analysis" and "program budgeting" -- techniques with which Robert McNamara overhauled the Defense Department in the early '60's -- can make more effective the $5 billion Federal agencies spend annually in assistance to foreign countries...