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...Guam conference was called to keep top U.S. and South Vietnamese officials in touch on a semiannual basis (they last met in Manila in October 1966). Accompanying the President on the 18-hour, 8,600-mile trip from Washington were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, other top aides and two jetloads of reporters. In from Saigon flew U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, General William Westmoreland and South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...said, had been precarious since he first ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1956. "I got in the hole in '56, and I never was able to get out, and some of these things had to be paid off," he said. His 1958 campaign manager, Paul V. McNamara, concurred sadly that Dodd could not "keep his head above water. His financial affairs were a complete debacle." In 1961, for example, despite an income of $88,031, plus $56,110 from testimonials, he ended the year $149,-461 in debt...
Workmen shifted the three caskets in the evening gloom, laboring under harsh spotlights. Among the few spectators were Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Boston's Richard Cardi nal Gushing. After a crane lifted the caskets to their new site, Gushing intoned a brief prayer, then wept. So did the Kennedy brothers...
...maintenance of the bombing will do little but undermine these goals. Secretary of Defense McNamara has openly doubted its military effectiveness. The argument that it is necessary to bolster the morale of Saigon is a specious one, for Ky is in little danger of being toppled. But to intensify the war in the North as a response to peace feelers that didn't work out is no answer. And to insist, as the President did in Nashville last week, that it "aims to exact a penalty" from the North for its violations of 1954 and 1962 Geneva accords implies...
...quarter G.N.P. John son was understandably worried. With such economic aides as CEA Chairman Gardner Ackley, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Budget Director Charles Schultze, he had been mulling over for some weeks a restoration of the 7% credit. In two days of meetings that eventually included Defense Secretary McNamara and House Ways & Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, he decided that the time...