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...will keep on growing. At the time of the President's speech in July, American forces in Southeast Asia numbered 135,000; today they total nearly a quarter of a million. Returning last week from his seventh visit to Saigon since 1962, Defense .Secretary Robert McNamara reported that while the U.S. has "stopped losing the war," it will be a long, arduous struggle. With him he brought the recommendations from field commanders that U.S. forces in South Viet Nam be increased to 480,000 by 1967. If Hanoi responds in kind, say U.S. military planners in Saigon, a commitment...
...cool, thoughtful officer who occupies Room 3-E-668 in the Pentagon. General Harold Keith Johnson, 53, the 24th U.S. Army Chief of Staff-and the youngest to be appointed since Douglas Mac-Arthur-is a team man of austere, probing intelligence in the managerial mold of McNamara's Pentagon. "Like McNamara," says a Defense Department aide, "Johnson is a computer. But he is a friendly computer...
Johnson brilliantly handled his role in the reconstruction under Chief of Staff Earle ("Bus") Wheeler, who was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1964. That July, reaching down past 43 three-and four-star generals with greater seniority, Defense Secretary McNamara chose Johnson as Army Chief of Staff. Johnson was awarded his fourth star...
...Ranh Bay, destined to be one of the world's biggest ports, will ease the bottleneck when it is completed next year. McNamara last week ordered 10,000 additional logistical and engineering and support troops to Viet Nam to help relieve the jam. Meanwhile, as a Saigon logistics officer puts it, "trying to handle this buildup is like a juggler on a tightrope trying to drink from a firehose...
...influential Ford Foundation post, Bundy would be in an excellent position to re-enter the government if the opportunity arises. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara held the same post before being appointed to the Cabinet...