Word: mcnamaras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since Mr. McNamara has been telling us about Senator Kennedy's role in formulating foreign policy while a member of his brother's Cabinet [April 19], it would only seem fair that McNamara inform us, in detail, of Bobby's efforts at that time to enlarge our commitment in Viet...
Some time after President Johnson said that he would not run again, Robert McNamara, new president of the World Bank, fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara could not endorse Kennedy. But who could complain if he recounted Bobby's "energy and courage, compassion and wisdom" during the crises of his brother's Administration...
...Thus McNamara's effusive praise was taped for TV plugs in the Kennedy campaign-and McNamara landed in the midst of a Pentagon-sized controversy. It was a curious gaffe on both sides. McNamara will not find it any easier now to pry money from the U.S. Congress, which provides 27% of the bank's funds. Kennedy will scarcely gain. He has always dissociated himself from the Johnson Administration and the Viet Nam war. Yet no official, save Dean Rusk, has been more closely associated with both than Robert S. McNamara...
...these ranks also belong, for instance, such recognized experts as Adam Yarmolinsky, professor of Law and formerly one of McNamara's "whizzkids" and Gary Marx. Marx admits that the research was rushed, but, he added, "if they had more time they would only have found more racism...
Even Robert McNamara has an eye on a new New Frontier and, in a statement filmed for TV campaign plugs last week, dropped his normally cool demeanor to give an uncharacteristically effusive appraisal of Bobby's role as a J.F.K. foreign policy adviser, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis. "He remained calm and cool," said the former Defense Secretary, "firm but restrained, never nettled and never rattled, and he demonstrated a most extraordinary combination of energy and courage, compassion and wisdom...