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Thereupon Johnson, accompanied by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Under Secretary of State George Ball and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, hurried off to a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In taking his leave, Lyndon designated Presidential Aide Horace Busby as master of ceremonies for the Cabinet Room charade...
...legislative sense, such as the Civil Rights Bill. It is not the second kind, because it has a longer-range objective than the temporary focusing of public opinion. It is the third kind: The marchers will simply be there to protest the governmental structure that allows McGeorge Bundy and McNamara to decide issues of war and peace. They oppose Johnson's ability to prosecute the war in Vietnam without Congressional control. Only secondarily, according to SDS, is this a protest against the Vietnam war itself...
...United States. Moscowcounsels caution although nominally supporting sacred wars of liberation. The Chinese reply that if the U.S. is faced with a protracted guerrilla struggle, eventually, American public opinion and the preference of the peasants for a movement which promises them land without landlords will force the U.S. out. McNamara has warned Johnson that Vietnam is a test case, and that if the U.S. backs down here, the Chinese win the argument. Other peasant revolutionaries around the globe will begin similar bids for power in the name of the local brand of pro-Chinese Marxism...
Most of the preventable deaths, said Dr. McNamara, occur in the first three months of life. That is usually too early for obvious symptoms to develop-such as blueness of the extremities and lips, which would alert many a parent and any physician. Blueness and significant heart murmurs are almost certain not to appear until later...
...colicky and irritable, or have spells of rapid breathing, or be a feeding problem and fail to gain weight from a variety of benign causes. "It is not in the thinking of most doctors that a feeding problem has anything to do with heart disease," said Dr. McNamara. But in these thousands of cases every year, it should...