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...family moved into the White House. "I feel like I have already been here a year," he told 30 newsmen over coffee in his office. Then he gave the newsmen word of a couple of important trips that are in the works. This week, he said, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara will visit South Viet Nam for the second time in three months, to review the war against the Viet Cong guerrillas. Next week Johnson will go to Manhattan to address the United Na tions and "establish acquaintance" with the delegates there...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to abandon the Dyna-Soar space glider project offers an encouraging sign of budgetary restraint in the American space program. The Dyna-Soar project, which was expected to cost more than $1 billion, would have contributed little to U.S. military capability or scientific understanding of space. Since the Pentagon had already spent nearly $400 million on Dyna-Soar, its apparent determination to halt further extravagance on a program with limited potential is surprising and welcome...
...abandonment of the Dyna-Soar project was accompanied by much less heartening news. McNamara announced that the Air Force will begin the development of a manned space station to be orbited in 1967 or early 1968. MOL, as the project will be called, will cost approximately $900 million, and it will contribute considerably more to American space technology than Dyna-Soar. While Dyna-Soar was designed solely to investigate the means of returning a man from space, the manned-orbiting laboratory will give scientists valuable information about man's ability to survive in space over an extended period...
Under the administration of Secretary of Defense McNamara, the power of the military chiefs has been sharply reduced. The military has acquiesced to this diminished role in strategy making because in the past two years they had received funds to support proliferation of new weapon systems...
...revised military strategy and the rigid "cost-efficiency" standards of McNamara, however, have dictated recent cutbacks in weaponry...