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MONTREAL, May 18--Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara today proposed that every young person in the United States be required to give two years of service to his country, either in the military or some voluntary service like the Peace Corps...
Message from the Cook. Despite such irritations, the President was in a light-hearted mood, darkened only briefly by his attendance at the funeral of Michigan's Senator Patrick McNamara in Detroit. After he had returned to the White House, some 500 heads turned, searching for some sign-any sign-of presidential wrath, when Senator William Fulbright made his way through the receiving line at a diplomatic reception. They searched in vain. Indeed, Johnson all but hugged his arch-critic, clasping his shoulders, squeezing elbow, patting arm. "I read Bill's speech on the arrogance of power...
...McNamara's troubles are partly a matter of manner. Though he is more gracious in testifying than he once was, and has even taken to asking key congressional military committeemen to the Pentagon for briefing breakfasts, the Secretary has consistently all but ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...
...French objection. It calls for a chain of commands across Europe to give Washington's remaining 13 NATO partners a joint voice in the target selection and firing of 6,000 tactical nuclear warheads, which the U.S. has placed in Europe for NATO defense. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his West German, Italian, and Turkish counterparts also endorsed a British proposal that the Atlantic Alliance must be prepared to "escalate its nuclear response rather than accept defeat in a European...
Died. Patrick Vincent McNamara, 71, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator since 1955, a genial Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...