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With action still sporadic, the Leathernecks found time last week to receive Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who had flown to South Viet Nam for his eighth inspection trip since the war began heating up in 1962. As usual, McNamara spent the first two days in the briefing rooms of Saigon. Then, again as usual, he climbed into khakis and scuffed brown desert boots for a two-day whirl through American units stationed all over the country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck...
Encouraging Report. McNamara's last previous trip to Viet Nam had been eleven months ago, when the American buildup was just getting under way and the military effort against the Communists was stalled. This time he found much to be encouraged about. Noting that the Americans have now seized the initiative, he reported that "the pressure on the Viet Cong, measured in terms of the casualties they have suffered, the destruction of their units, the measurable effect on their morale, has been greater than we anticipated...
While he was preoccupied with preparations for the Manila Conference and playing host to U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky last week found himself faced with a major Cabinet crisis...
...McNamara Named Associate
...honorary associates" and the approximate dates of their visits to Cambridge are Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, Nov. 6-7; Gerald Ford (R-Mich.), House Minority Leader, Nov. 16-17; Jerome Cavanaugh, Mayor of Detroit, Dec. 11-13; Lawrence O'Brien, Postmaster General, Jan 8-10; Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...