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...named Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to head the committee. Also serving on the group will be Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirts; Anthony J. Celebresse, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and Gen. Lewis Hershey, director of selective service...
...McNamara Sees Diem...
SAIGON, Sept. 29--Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara conferred with President Ngo Dinh Diem for three hours Sunday, on the eve of the secretary's return home after a weeklong inspection tour of South Viet...
...McNamara is expected to leave for Washington Monday afternoon to report to President Kennedy on the progress of the war in South Viet Nam and the effect, if any, of the recent political-religious crisis in the country...
...popular support it needs to beat the Communists, the U.S. could only wait and see. At week's end President Kennedy ordered an urgent, on-the-spot review of the war in Viet Nam. It will be conducted by his two top military advisers, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and General Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of whom visited Viet Nam only last year. Though officially they are only to report on "the military situation," McNamara and Taylor will be sure to take a look at the woodwork...