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Salinger: I have conferred with Secretary of Defense McNamara. I have conferred with Senator Magnuson, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee ... I had a call this morning from Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall...
...Pentagon already embarrassed by the third Tonkin Gulf incident. The incident came at a time when Barry Goldwater was trying to make a political issue out of Washington's ability to maintain instant communications with combat areas. When he first got the word, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara broke off a news conference, canceled a speaking engagement that had been scheduled for Chicago later that...
Some 24 hours later, McNamara announced that two U.S. destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf had been approached by "four unidentified vessels with hostile intent." The destroyers fired, and the craft disappeared. But there were so many conflicting accounts of the action that the Pentagon finally sent an investigating team to the area. Returning to Washington, the investigators said only that they had verified two of the radar contacts, but "there may have been more...
...mistake image-polishing for softness on Democrats, Goldwater rolled up his oratorical sleeves and walloped away with a vengeance. In Charlotte, N.C., he likened Lyndon Johnson to a dictator of despotic power, and in Odessa, Texas, to Neville Chamberlain. Over and over he linked Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as a team that seemed devoted to the ruination of the country...
Speaking before the American Legion convention in Dallas, Barry proposed that "YoYo" McNamara ("He keeps going down there to Viet Nam and coming back") "must be charged with mistake after mistake in evaluating the intentions of Communism. His efforts to turn the Defense Department into a Disarmament Department, his participation in the massive misevaluation of Soviet intentions, which led to the Cuban missile crisis, are parts of the indictment on this score...