Word: mcnamara
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...McNamara resigns! New Secretary of Defense names!" cried the man with the cap and the Harvard sweatshirt. Now one of the three students, the one who was somebody else, went to buy a paper...
...Fifteen cents, son." The man tucked one of the papers from under his arm under the arm of the student, and whistled down the street. When somebody else unfolded the paper the headline did not relate to Secretary McNamara, nor did any story on the front page. The headlines were not even clear. It occurred to the three students, almost at once, that the man with the grey cap and the Harvard sweatshirt was in some way illegal...
...Moyers' leave-taking approaches, rumors have blossomed that McNamara may leave the Pentagon to become the President's executive assistant, with powers akin to those that Sherman Adams exercised with flinty authority under Dwight Eisenhower. That prospect is, at best, remote. McNamara and Johnson are almost certainly too strong-willed to operate harmoniously under one roof. With the Potomac River between them, they get along swimmingly...
...these same protectors of capitalism, represented by administration spokesmen from Hanson Baldwin to Robert McNamara, have come out for "draft reform." Their reason seems to us obvious, and directly opposite from the reasons the Left opposes the draft: They want draft reform because they need a army adequate for a widened conflict...
...year of the draft review, a real fight against the draft is necessary and possible: Not by mouthing McNamara's "Abolish 2-S," but by fighting for an end to the draft itself and reforms consistent with that end. While these reforms are (like all reforms) obfuscations of the ultimate goal, mobilizing support for them can broaden the base of our movement, and bring nearer the time when it will be politically impossible for a Johnson to wage a Vietnam...