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...same purpose. That came at just about the same time that the Johnson Administration let it be known that all Cabinet officers except the Secretaries of Defense, State and the Treasury would be taking to the stump this fall. It also happens that both Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara have long since been campaigning from within their own offices, issuing instant replies to every criticism Goldwater has made of their departments. Now Rusk called a press conference. "I can assure you," he said sarcastically, "that the Democratic National Committee has not made arrangements with Indonesia to drop parachutists into Malaysia...
...general pose of thriftiness. Perhaps more than anything else, Goldwater deeply believes that the Johnson Administration is diluting the nation's military strength in the name of cost-performance analysis; but he has yet to prove his point against the slide-rule rebuttals of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Barry rails against the intrusions of big government into private life; but he has yet to make a winning issue of his complaints. The farm issue? It is quite conceivable that neither candidate will make a major speech about...
Last Man Out. In retrospect, Hubert's top aides now feel that the only other serious contenders were McNamara, whom Lyndon admires tremendously, and Bobby, because he is a Kennedy...
...Against McNamara, the Humphreymen could and did take counteraction. They circulated among labor leaders a report that the President had decided to choose between Humphrey and McNamara-and leaned to McNamara. The labor leaders, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, rose to the bait, let the President know that McNamara, a former Ford Motor Co. president, was certainly not labor's idea of an ideal Vice President. Moreover, many longtime professionals were strongly opposed to McNamara as a man who, until he went to the Pentagon, had been presumed to be a Republican...
...McNamara dropped back in the standings. But that left Bobby, who made no bones of the fact that he wanted the vice-presidential nomination. Always there was the implied threat that if Bobby did not receive the legacy, legions of devoted J.F.K. followers would withhold their support from L.B.J...