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...Supine Acquiescence." The House Armed Services Committee and four subcommittees have been investigating the Pentagon as if it were the Kremlin. Areport on McNamara's overall management of the war in Viet Nam and another on his politically unpopular decision to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard are still under preparation. Of the three reports that have been released, one criticized McNamara's December decision to close, consolidate or cut back 149 military bases and warned that any future decisions on closings "must show a greater awareness of possible contingent requirements" resulting from Viet...
...most hostile report of all concerned one of the oldest controversies of McNamara's Pentagon tenure: his 1961 cutback on funds for big bombers and his subsequent decision to replace them in the next ten years with the FB-111, a flashy (Mach 2.5) modified fighter...
...Shockingly Distorted." Headed by Louisiana Democrat F. Edward Hebert, a hard-knuckled investigative veteran, the subcommittee accused McNamara of being a Pentagon tyrant who uses the word "we" in his testimony only "to hide the essential singularity of the decision-making process in the Department of Defense." Said the report: "The subcommittee was shocked to dis cover that the proposal to phase out of the SAC inventory all B58 aircraft was, as best it could ascertain, an action solely recommended and supported by the office of the Secretary of Defense and one neither recommended nor truly supported...
...McNamara blasted back in kind. In a press conference with Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, he termed the Hebert report "shockingly distorted," charged that its claim that his decision to curtail manned bombers was made despite J.C.S. protest "is without any foundation whatsoever." McNamara conceded that Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell had argued for "full deployment and full development" of a new big bomber and that a unanimous J.C.S. request for $23 million to pursue research on such a bomber had been cut in half by McNamara himself. "I see no clear need for a new strategic bomber...
Breakfast with Bob. As for the Nike X anti-missile system to defend the U.S. against such an attack, McNamara has long argued that it would be too expensive. Moreover, he points out, if the U.S. plans to defend itself by exploding the enemy's nuclear warheads in the sky, the nation will also need a vast and costly network of fallout shelters to protect its citizens. Nevertheless, the Senate last week voted $167.9 mil lion to buy Nike X hardware. McNamara has also been reluctant to build nuclear-powered warships for economy reasons-so the Senate voted...