Word: mcnamaras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reports were distributed simultaneously to the State Department's seventh-floor Operations Center, the Pentagon's basement National Military Command Center and the Situation Room in the basement of the White House. Duty officers immediately began calling second-echelon officials at their homes; Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was not alerted until 12:23 a.m. By 12:45, White House Aide Walt Rostow was convinced that the situation was serious and drove to the White House, arriving there at 1:15. Shortly after 2 a.m., he telephoned the President, who stayed in bed but was briefed during...
...President went into his crisis routine, meeting Rostow, conferring by telephone with Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms. The first afternoon of the crisis, an informal "Planning Committee"-reminiscent of the Executive Committee (ExComm) set up under President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962-began to emerge. It included Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Press Secretary George Christian, UnderSecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Sam Berger, and Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke...
...Maniac. Determined to show that the U.S. means business, the Planning Committee endorsed McNamara's suggestion for a limited call-up of air units, and decided to take the matter to the United Nations. Johnson also appeared on a nationwide TV hookup to explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also...
Like Mother. In the process, Gardner gave HEW a sense of purpose, turning what Johnson had called an unmanageable "hodgepodge" into a well-ordered, efficient department. The Secretary, the President observed last year, "does the same thing McNamara does, but in a compassionate way. He does it like Mother would do." Unlike Robert McNamara, whose primary loyalty was to the President he served, rather than to the Defense Department, Gardner was devoted to the realization of a better, healthier, more equitable life for the American people...
...distinctive as the double-breasted suits he continued to wear all through the two-button era. Last week, during his first center-stage performance as a Cabinet officer-designate, a 2½-hour appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he left the strong impression that Robert S. McNamara's succes sor as Secretary of Defense will be flexible in tactics but firm in strategy...