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...judgment he questions in particular is the bland statement by Defense Secretary McNamara that U.S. forces cannot be protected in Viet Nam against enemy sneak attack. "It is a self-imposed jeopardy," Marshall writes. "In operations of war, if you do not have security, you do not have anything. The sending of enough field forces to cover our own installations was the one move that might have initiated a revival of confidence. Amid doubt all around, it would have been an earnest of the American intention to see the show through. There is always time for such moves: the time...
...authorized White House Press Secretary George Reedy to declare emphatically: "There are no authorized negotiations under way with Mr. Thant or any other government." In fact, said Reedy, the U.S. has yet to receive from any source any "meaningful" proposal for negotiations. The President also authorized Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to issue a "white paper" aimed at proving once and for all the extent of North Vietnamese aggression in South Viet Nam (see THE WORLD...
...What McNamara did not say was that the present U.S. policy of advising but not fighting in Viet Nam is hardly a winning strategy. The U.S. can probably continue that policy for a considerable time without serious damage, but it cannot possibly win the war without a far deeper involvement. The present alternative to that involvement is negotiating from a position of weakness. Some day the inevitable choice will have to be made...
...testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, the most articulate man in Washington was at his most eloquent. Excerpts from the statement of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara...
...mountains go, Switzerland's 14,701 -ft. Matterhorn is not much of a challenge any more. Robert McNamara climbed it, after all, and it is the sort of hill that Stewart Udall would probably try to run up. So many people (1,000 a year) have made the trip since Britain's Edward Whymper first succeeded in 1865 that the popular climbing routes are covered with pitons and footholds as easy to negotiate as a flight of steps. So easy, in fact, that a whimsical Englishman once won a bet that he could reach the summit without ever...