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...Viet Nam did not come cheaply. In the first week of November alone, 70 Americans died, the highest seven-day U.S. toll since the American entry into the war eleven years ago. Yet the results continued to be encouraging. After meeting with President Johnson last week, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told reporters: "The South Vietnamese, with our help, have blunted and defeated the Viet Cong monsoon offensive, and the Viet Cong have paid a very heavy price indeed...
While Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was in Texas last week conferring with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam, Hubert Humphrey was laying a Veterans' Day wreath at Arlington Na tional Cemetery. While McNamara bat tled the aluminum industry in private, pleaded the Administration's case in public and announced the Government's "victory" (see U.S. BUSINESS), the Commerce and Treasury Secretaries - the officials most directly concerned - were little seen or heard...
There are reportedly three other candidates being considered for the post: Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles, and David E. Bell, director of the Agency for International Development...
Murphy is reported to have said he was unavailable. It is believed that even if McNamara desired the position, Johnson would not let him leave Washington at this time. Bell, a former Harvard economist, has reportedly received a firm offer of the Foundation's vice-presidency in charge of international affairs. Bell also refused to comment on the job-shuffling...
...which left the metal selling for 10 per Ib. below its 1960 peak). That move, flagrantly ignoring Johnson's veiled warning, brought the Administration into the open. At a press conference in Wash ington, called at Johnson's specific command, Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley, Defense's McNamara and Treasury's Fowler declared that the alumi num price rises "have no justification under the wage-price guideposts and therefore are inflationary." Though he denied that the decision had anything to do with aluminum price rises, McNamara announced that the Government will sell 200,000 tons of surplus...