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Next day the President issued a blistering statement: "Outrages like this will only reinforce the determination of the American people and Government to continue and to strengthen their assistance and support for the people and government of Viet Nam." Johnson, Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy decided not to launch any massive attack against North Viet Nam in specific retaliation for the bombing. After a long session with the President, Ambassador Taylor said: "We are simply going to stay on our program of doing what we did before. We've just...
Each year, about 7,000 American babies less than a year old die of inborn heart defects. "Eighty percent of these infants could be saved by surgery," says Baylor University's Pediatrician Dan G. McNamara. The trouble is, Dr. McNamara told an international meeting on the heart and circulation of the newborn, that not enough physicians are trained to detect the sometimes subtle signs that a "cranky" baby may actually have severe deformities of the heart or major blood vessels...
Finally, Johnson called upon his two most articulate Cabinet members to explain the situation. Summoning newsmen to the Pentagon, McNamara emphasized that the gases are nonlethal, pointed out that they are available to any government through commercial sources. He even produced a catalogue from Federal Laboratories in Saltsburg, Pa., to prove his point...
Then it became the RS-70-RS meaning reconnaissance strike. It would, its adherents claimed, not only be a bomber but a wizard observation aircraft. But Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was dead set against...
Next it became the XB-70A-with the X standing for experimental. Under congressional pressure, McNamara finally agreed to spend $1.4 billion to build two prototypes...