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...anyone still underestimated either the depth of U.S. determination or the physical dimensions of the war it was fighting in Viet Nam, McNamara's brisk recital of statistics brought both into focus. The Defense Secretary told Congressmen that U.S. forces in the war zone have been firing $210 million worth of ammunition a month. "We are preparing," said he, "to support a much higher rate...
...Lyndon marched in with Sargent Shriver and Jack Hood Vaughn, his nominee to succeed Shriver as head of the Peace Corps (see following story). That ceremony was swiftly followed-all in the White House-by Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's resume of Johnson-proposed constitutional amendments, Robert McNamara's rundown of defense expenditures, a discussion of tax revision by Treasury Secretary Fowler, and brief appearances by House Speaker McCormack, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and Vice President Humphrey...
...Five years ago," Freeman told a farm group in Lincoln, Neb., last month, "I was just beginning to learn what a Secretary of Agriculture does to earn the title." What does he do? "He sur vives." To which McNamara, Rusk and Udall would probably agree...
Five years, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara once remarked, is about the longest any man should serve in a top Administration job. Of the eight men who have held the Defense post since it was created in 1947, he is by all odds the ablest and most controversial (TIME, Jan. 21). Yet as he entered his sixth year on the job, Mc Namara, 49, showed no signs of battle fatigue. Nor, for that matter, did the three other durable men who celebrated their fifth anniversaries as Cabinet officers last week...
DEAN RUSK, 56, has, if possible, weathered even more rumors of impending resignation than McNamara...