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...Soon he would be off for Lisbon-where, presumably, he would no longer voice the dissenting defense-policy views that had caused the Kennedy Administration to drop him as Chief of Naval Operations. But before he left, Anderson had a few parting words about working for Defense Secretary Robert McNamara...
Anderson appeared before the National Press Club in Washington to deliver "an epilogue to my military career." He insisted that "I question neither motivation, patriotism, dedication or ability of anyone." What he did question was the system imposed on the Defense Department by McNamara. Said Anderson: "Overcentralized structures are conducive to the abuse of power and compounding of mistakes. Monolithic-structured organizations can kill imagination, stultify initiative, completely eliminate the effectiveness of those in the officer corps who have gained wisdom and experience...
...witness arrived in Washington unheralded and drove straight to Capitol Hill, where Senator John Stennis' Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee was meeting in a closed-door session. Nobody in the Administration's upper echelons, none of the Pentagon's top civilian officials, not even Defense Secretary McNamara had been forewarned that he was going to testify. But it was not long before everybody in town knew that the Strategic Air Command's General Thomas S. Power had been around. "The Old Man," said a McNamara aide after Power finished speaking his mind on the nuclear test ban treaty...
...Like McNamara, who followed him, Rusk vowed that the U.S. will remain vigilant against the possibility of Soviet duplicity. Said he: "We shall be on the alert for any violations, and we have a high degree of confidence in our ability to detect them." In fact, Rusk went out of his way to assure the Senators that the Administration is not so naive as to think the treaty is based on mutual trust. "I don't believe that an agreement of this sort can rest upon the elements of faith and trust. The Soviet Union does not trust...
Another Pressure. In order, Seaborg, Taylor and McCone backed up the Rusk-McNamara argument that the treaty is in the best 'interests of the U.S. The Senate committeemen had been particularly anxious to hear Taylor. Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff, professional military men less interested in diplomatic advances than in U.S. might, support the test ban? Yes, said Taylor, they did. But some Senators were still concerned lest the Joint Chiefs had come to that decision not out of conviction but under pressure from the civilians of the Kennedy Administration. That fret was expressed in an exchange between...