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...strength has not been bought cheaply. For McNamara's buildup, which has given the armed forces the capacity to respond flexibly to guerrilla and conventional warfare as well as to nuclear attack, the defense budget this year will be $7.5 billion higher than the last Eisenhower defense budget...
...bill could have been nearly $5 billion a year higher had not McNamara brought a management revolution to the Pentagon. Coldly weighing every decision on its merits, he has frequently rejected the once sacrosanct proposals of his military chiefs, demanding documented facts to support opinion. Obsolete, political and redundant programs-many of them pet projects of brass and politicians-have virtually been eliminated...
Enmity & Respect. McNamara's bold cancellations and cutbacks of major weapons-system programs, notably the air-to-ground Skybolt missile, the supersonic B70 bomber and nuclear-powered planes and aircraft carriers, have earned him the enmity but also the grudging respect of the military. His decision to close down 95 military bases last year (at an estimated savings to the taxpayer of $477 million a year) threatened local economies and brought cries of outrage from Governors and Congressmen-and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas' tribute: "You are the first man to have the courage...
Over almost universal criticism of his award of the TFX jet fighter contract to General Dynamics instead of Boeing-which Air Force experts said had submitted a better and less expensive design-McNamara steadfastly insisted that "it was the most important single action we have taken thus far to reduce the number of different weapons systems in our inventory...
Nuts & Bolts. When he first hove into Washington, McNamara left congressional committees speechless with his matchless grasp of detail. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Daniel Flood: "I had the impression that if we would ask the secretary for the number of nuts and bolts in Warehouse No. 1, drawer 7, Fort Dix, he most probably could tell us." But Congressmen soon became resentful of overwhelmingly documented proposals that left little room for debate; nor was McNamara's popularity on Capitol Hill burnished by his abrasive style and transparent impatience with congressional dillydallying...