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...trouble began when well-intentioned Defense Secretary Robert McNamara called Pentagon correspondents to his office for a background briefing. McNamara had done some of his homework well: he made an impressive presentation of the current state of U.S. nuclear forces. Then, like Republican Defense Secretaries Neil McElroy and Tom Gates before him, honest Bob McNamara tried to explain that merely counting missiles is not the way to assess U.S. or Russian military strength. All other weapons must be taken into account. The important thing, said McNamara, is that there should be no "destruction gap." Then, casually, he added that today...
Grand Deception. McNamara did not deny that during the next three years a nose count of Russian ICBMs may find the Soviets moving ahead. But the next day's papers headlined stories focused on the proposition that the "missile gap," which has worried the nation since Sputnik I shot spaceward in 1957, no longer exists...
...addition to juggling the economy and foreign crises, President Kennedy last week ordered a step-up in U.S. deterrent and airlift capability, and asked Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to produce by month's end a full reappraisal of the U.S. defense setup. Along the way, Kennedy registered a solid boost in G.I. morale by rescinding Dwight Eisenhower's order calling for a cut-down in the number of military dependents abroad to slow the drain on gold...
Next day Bob McNamara, slim and businesslike, barreled into his first press conference to lay out some of the details of the Kennedy new look. Items...
Councilor Thomas M. McNamara interjected a light note into the Council discussion when he asked Whitlock whether the closer Harvard-Radcliffe ties created "any danger of the quadrangle becoming a triangle?" Whitlock merely smiled...