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...achieve his aims will require every bit of McNamara's brilliance and dedication. His programs may run into political objections, at home and abroad, that compel compromises or retreats; if so, he expects to be in on the decisions. Along the way to his goals, he will injure plenty of feelings, but he has thought about that too. "I see my position here'" he says, "as being that of a leader, not a judge. I'm here to originate and stimulate new ideas and programs, not just to referee arguments and harmonize interests." In his cramped, left...
...When he testified last week before a House subcommittee, two Republican Congressmen made side bets on whether McNamara could be asked something he couldn't answer. Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin owes William Minshall of Ohio a lunch because McNamara precisely pinpointed a section of the Nassau Pact that Laird thought he might not know...
...Cuba had to be answered. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating vowed to eat his hat if his charges were not right. And it was to force such critics as Keating to a diet of fried fedora that President Kennedy last week ordered Defense Secretary McNamara and CIA Chief John McCone to an unprecedented public report on the state of Cuba's military strength. Never before had a nation displayed in such detail its secrets of intelligence-gathering over an unfriendly country...
...Pentagon's exposition refuted beyond reasonable doubt the hysterically high estimates (up to 70,000) of Soviet military manpower in Cuba; McNamara also plucked to pieces the notion that the Russians have kept in Cuba all sorts of missiles capable of carrying nuclear devastation to the U.S. heartland...
...very thoroughness of McNamara's presentation there was positive evidence of a chilling fact: no matter that the Russians have removed their medium-and long-range nuclear missiles from Cuba, no matter that they have taken away their IL-28 bombers -they still have impressive military strength in Cuba...