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THREE years ago, when Correspondent Marshall Berges was packing up to leave his assignment as head of the Detroit Bureau to take charge in Los Angeles, he dropped around to see Robert S. McNamara, then president of the Ford Motor Co. Berges felt that McNamara, as a former Californian, might well provide some pretty good guidance. One of the questions he asked was, "Who are the brightest men in California?" McNamara's reply was instantaneous: "Way up at the top of your list you'd better put Tex Thornton." Berges was not in California long before he shared...
Church, Idaho McNamara, Mich...
While Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, surveyed the war in Viet Nam last week (see THE WORLD), a storm was brewing in Washington over the handling of U.S. policy toward that strife-torn little country. It involved most of the Pentagon and an influential clique in the State Department...
...with the Harriman approval came in. The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman-who apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up. And among the many Pentagon officials enraged by it was the highest-up: Defense Secretary McNamara. Summarizing McNamara's reaction, a Defense official said: "While it lasted, it was an atomic blast...
...saying that there was a major policy split between Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara over Viet Nam, but neither was anyone denying that underlings in each man's department held widely differing views. And it almost looked as if the war in Washington were worse last week than the savage battle being fought in faraway Viet...