Word: mcnamara
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...next night, during a dinner at the White House, including the Robert Kennedys, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, there was "puckish horseplay" as the mourners recoiled from shock. Everyone knew that Ethel Kennedy often wore a wig; during the meal, it was "snatched off and passed from head to head, winding up . . .on the slick pate of the Secretary of Defense...
...military situation in Viet Nam gave ample cause for confidence. South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky said that the Communist forces in his country are "on the run" and pictured the supply system in the North as "in near paralysis." All the same, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara pointed out, the Reds are "by no means beaten...
...anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) system around Moscow, and are thought to be extending it to other cities as well. If the U.S. followed their example, it would set off a new and immensely expensive round of the arms race (TIME ESSAY, Feb. 24) without, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has noted, adding one whit to the security of either side. Thompson's task is to convince the Russians, who have an almost paranoiac regard for defense, that they have nothing to gain-and billions to lose-by attempting to upset the balance with an ABM fence...
Despite the Senate Committee's recommendation that this year's funding of $289 million for FDLS be cut and the program halted, McNamara will press the fight in the House, where he has greater support. As ammunition against the critics, he has data from 17 reports compiled since 1964 by LOGLAND ("Logistics Support for Land Operations") and other Pentagon committees that strongly advocate the FDLS program. The reports show that McNamara's flexible response strategy would by its very speed alone slash the duration of conflicts by half, cut casualties to the U.S. and its allies...
...other hand, the administration, particularly in the deans and the administrative representatives in the Houses, stress responsible citizenship. (The harrassment of Secretary McNamara earlier in the year was viewed by both administration and the majority of the students as a violation of that principle.) Harvard, therefore, recruits students who have both a strong intellectual orientation and one toward social interaction and citizenship. Once recruited, the student finds himself in an environment that supports these interests...