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...does not soothe me to hear McNamara say that our ability to vaporize Russia is our best defense. I am more concerned with America's survival than Russia's destruction. What if our deterrent does fail? Are we to shout hurrah because their pile of ashes is bigger than ours? Or are we to congratulate ourselves on how much money we saved...
Secretary McNamara does not believe that the bombing is ineffective, as your own reporting in the rest of the piece clearly shows. The one out-of-place quotation from an unidentified source is in error...
...declined to characterize the U.S. moves as "escalation," but agreed that the level of the war had obviously changed. "This is action over and above what has been taking place over the last few weeks," he noted. "Certainly, it is more far-reaching." As Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara explained later in the week, the new steps "are supplemental to the air campaign." What makes them all the more important is the fact that U.S. intelligence has uncovered new signs that the North Vietnamese are attempting to increase supply movements toward the South. Moreover, as many...
...patience, his durability, his tolerance that many Faculty members admired in the handling of the McNamara incident and the planning for the Goldberg visit in February. Monro talked for long periods with members of SDS, and many Faculty members give him a major part of the credit for heading off a real confrontation. A more impulsive man, they say, might have provoked serious trouble...
...cannot understand why some officers of the Republican Club frown upon all association with SDS. SDS violated our system's basic political rules when it physically detained McNamara, but if SDS feels that the Vietnamese war is genocide, such actions are not entirely irresponsible...