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...President's impact on a midterm election is always hard to assess, Johnson could hardly absolve himself of blame for the Democrats' reverses. His performance the week before the elections was probably the least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage swipe...
...beyond that point, divergence looms between the generals, on the one hand, and Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on the other. Last week McNamara disclosed a planned "slowdown in our rate of troop deployments" in Viet Nam, "a statement," explained the Defense Department the day after Election Day, "that does not necessarily rule out a figure as high as 500,000 for the end of 1967." To the men running the war in Saigon and many of their colleagues in the Pentagon, half a million men falls considerably short of what is needed. Marine Commandant Wallace Greene...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara went to Cambridge to deliver the first lecture at Harvard's new Kennedy Institute of Politics. The 350 members of the Harvard S.D.S. decided that this would be an ideal time for a debate between McNamara and an eloquent spokesman they had brought to the campus, Robert Scheer, an editor of Ramparts magazine and an unsuccessful anti-war congressional candidate. Institute officials quashed the proposal, and McNamara spoke for three hours in Quincy House to 15 students at a lunch and a random selection of 50 at a seminar. He urged students to work...
...afternoon, some 600 students gathered to hear Editor Scheer denounce U.S. policy. Split roughly in half between those for and those against the Government, the crowd carried signs reading STOP THE WAR, NAPALM S.D.S., and BACK MAC. Scheer's oratory raised emotional temperatures even higher. S.D.S. members, awaiting McNamara's departure, watched all Quincy House exits. Officials dispatched several cars as decoys before McNamara slipped into a police wagon. About 25 S.D.S. members spotted . the vehicle, threw themselves under its wheels. Their shouts of "We got him-we got him!" brought the crowd running...
...reviewing last week's events, most members at the meeting agreed that the McNamara demonstration had been a good thing...