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National security adviser McGeorge Bundy, former Dean of the Facuty, has chosen Columbia University political scientist Richard Neustadt as his interviewer. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 will interview Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Mrs. Kennedy...
Cabinet or Chandelier. Downstairs, Lyndon ushers his guests into the State Dining Room, seats them on straight-backed chairs for briefings, usually by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and one or two other Cabinet members. Some Congressmen feel that this part of the evening is a treatment, not a treat. "It mostly sounded to me like a political tub thumping," groused Kansas Republican William Avery. Still, most of them can hardly help feeling flattered when the President trots out top Cabinet officers for their edification...
...that speculation "that we are losing the fight in that area, or that things have gone to pot there, is at all justified." Added he: "We feel that we are following the proper course and that our national interests are being fully protected." Nevertheless, Johnson dispatched Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to South Viet Nam for a field assessment-McNamara's third in five months...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara says that the U.S. is still committed to the cause of its South Vietnamese allies...
...been after it all along." An Improbable Argument. As for Goldwater, he trudged glumly through New Hampshire's snowy villages, failing to keep several appointments, often acting as though political handshaking were an ordeal. As usual, he got in a few cracks at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "If he were my Secretary of Defense," said Goldwater, "he'd be back making Edsels for Ford the next day." Barry inaccurately quoted McNamara as saying that long-range missiles are more reliable than manned bombers. That statement, said Goldwater, is "probably the stupidest ever made by a Secretary of Defense...