Word: mcnamaras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against appointing Schlesinger. So did his successor, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Some of the Pentagon's uniformed chiefs, who felt that Schlesinger sometimes treated them with contempt, also opposed him. Hoping to avoid controversy, Carter turned to Brown, a physicist who had been one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's prize Whiz Kids and Lyndon Johnson's Air Force Secretary during the Viet Nam War. A skilled manager with a fuzzy ideological image (hawks consider him a bit dovish and vice versa), he seemed a safe compromise...
Washington law partner of Clark Clifford, venerable Democratic powerbroker . . . Age 56 . . . Yale ('41), Columbia Law, Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded...
Liberal Washington attorney . . . A leading contender for HUD or Commerce . . . Age 45 . . . Born in Brooklyn . . . Was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . . . Spent early 1960s rising fast in the Defense Department; became Army's general counsel, then Secretary Robert McNamara's top troubleshooter . . . As Lyndon Johnson's domestic aide between 1965 and 1969, developed Great Society programs in civil rights, education and antipoverty; also had a hand in economic policymaking . . . Was counsel to the Democratic National Committee from 1970 to 1972, winning court battles to provide equal broadcast time for Democratic leaders...
Costin broke her sister RoAnn's 1974 record of 2:03.6 in the freestyle with a time of 2:01.5. She shattered Jane McNamara's 1975 record of 2:42.2 by almost 26 seconds with a time of 2:16.3 in the butterfly...
...Thatcher and Bartlett. His professional life changed course in 1957 when he became special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance caught the appraising eye of the chairman-L.B.J. In 1961 John F. Kennedy made him general counsel of the Department of Defense. There Secretary Robert S. McNamara soon put his talents to work in his stormy campaign to bring more efficiency to the Pentagon...