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...action. Lyndon Johnson was informed as he dressed for church. To the White House he summoned his top advisers: Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Under Secretary George Ball, Deputy Defense Secretary Cy Vance and General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, weekending in Newport, R.I., got a hurry-up call and rushed back to the capital. For 45 minutes the President and his aides discussed the attack, decided to play the whole affair as low-key as possible in the hope that it was all some sort of misunderstanding on the part...
...Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next 22 hours. He made about 100 calls to Washington, even more than that to his subordinate Pacific commanders of the Air Force, Army and Navy...
There was no doubt in Sharp's mind that the U.S. would now have to answer this attack with much more than a diplomatic protest note. He recommended that the U.S. hit the North Viet Nam torpedo-boat bases. Could the carriers do the job? asked McNamara. "Hell, yes!" replied Sharp. That was all McNamara needed to know. While McNamara dealt with the problem in Washington, Sharp waited for a decision. "I was watching Saigon time to see how light it was getting, and watching Washington time to see what they were doing. You spend an awful...
While Sharp watched the clocks, President Johnson, McNamara, Rusk, CIA Chief John McCone and the President's adviser on national security, McGeorge Bundy, met for a luncheon conference in the White House second-floor dining room...
Spinning Wheels. It was the fear that Khanh might be the country's last hope for survival that prompted Washington to rush to his support, chiefly through Defense Secretary McNamara, who has shuttled repeatedly to Saigon to confer with Khanh and to join him on tours of the countryside. Little by little, it became clear to McNamara that the doughty Vietnamese needed more-not less-U.S. personnel and equipment if he were to make a dent in the growing Viet Cong strength. Four months ago, the wheels began turning. McNamara's recommendation was seconded by then...