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...nearly everyone at the table: "Our own beloved Chief Justice Warren. The Vice President-elect, Mr. Humphrey. The next chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate-if the Republicans come to power-Mr. Hickenlooper. Our own Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. Our Secretary of Defense, Bob McNamara. Our Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Douglas Dillon. One of the great leaders of our time, the former Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. Mr. Lewis Douglas, former Ambassador to Great Britain. Now Lew, you stand up a little longer. There are some girls down here who didn...
...closing of 95 military installations last month was only one step in Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plan to streamline and modernize the nation's armed forces. Last week the efficiency-minded Secretary took another giant step: he put the ax to one of the Army's most sacred cows, one that is especially beloved by politicians who like to sport stars and eagles on short summer-training tours...
...McNamara ordered disbanding of the Army's Organized Reserve, a collection of 19 divisions and 4,000 smaller units with 300,000 officers and men. Roughly half of the Reserve force will be assimilated into the National Guard, receive new equipment and tougher training. The remainder will be placed in an unassigned stand-by reserve force. McNamara's reasoning: the training and equipment of the Reserve divisions were so inferior that it would probably have required one year after full mobilization to bring them to combat readiness-far too long for the Pentagon's war plans...
...momentous meeting was over, and White House newsmen were finally admitted to the Cabinet Room. Charles Mohr of the New York Times was in the vanguard, and he reported the next day that he had heard Defense Secretary Robert McNamara say, with considerable vehemence, to the President of the U.S.: "It would be impossible for Max to talk to these people without leaving the impression that the situation is going to hell...
...situation," of course, was South Viet Nam, which is certainly going to hell. The "Max" was U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Maxwell Taylor, who had just finished a 21-hour report to the President and top U.S. State Department and military leaders. The President took McNamara's advice, and Taylor did not hold a press conference that might have been provocative...