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Denying rumors from Germany that the U.S. was considering withdrawal of its nuclear weapons from Europe, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara asserted: "In 1961 I reported that there were literally thousands of warheads on European soil. They have continued to increase, and twelve months from today the number will be 100% higher than in 1961." McNamara proposed the creation of a defense ministers' committee to set up an improved consultation procedure on the use of nuclear weapons-in effect, a "hotline" network to replace the present dangerously slow diplomatic channels. The members would presumably be the U.S., Britain, West Germany...
...Secretary of the Army? It is a safe bet that no more than one out of 100 men in the street would know. For the Army Secretary, like his Air Force and Navy counterparts, is trapped in a limbo of anonymity between Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the uniformed military chiefs...
...came to the Pentagon only last month as Army Under Secretary. Resor won the Silver and Bronze Stars as an artillery major in the Battle of the Bulge. He is a particular protégé of Ailes's predecessor, Cyrus Vance, now Deputy Secretary of Defense and McNamara's right-hand man. Resor and Vance roomed together at Yale Law School and have been close friends ever since. Both are tall, sharp-featured, and tense in manner and speech. "Shut your eyes," says an Army Department aide, "and you think Resor is Vance talking...
Next morning, as Lady Bird slept in, Udall led his wife and Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of the Secretary of Defense, along with reporters and photographers to the top of Sharp Top Mountain (elevation 3,875 ft.) to show off the Blue Ridge Mountains and make a pitch for conservation. With an investment of $150 in camping equipment, his department points out, a family of four can spend a weekend outdoors for only...
...give only a taste of Aron's lucidity in a short review. Hopefully it is enough to make you read the entire book, particularly the central chapters on why McNamara's nuclear policy makes more sense than de Gaulle's. McNamara emerges from this book not a frightening war-monger but a man dedicated to precluding thermonuclear war as much as possible while carrying out Johnson's policy assignments. There is little more profitable reading in current political science