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Breakdown was written by "fellow Globe reporter Eileen McNamara...
...McNamara sides with the Lozano family in this version of the tale. McNamara could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...creased uniforms at the Pentagon, Aspin's rumpled suits and looping, ruminative pronouncements made him seem tweedy and hapless. Oddly for a man who first came to the Defense Department in the mid-1960s as one of the chart-toting whiz kids ushered in by Robert McNamara, Aspin was poor at organizational matters. In a place accustomed to firm decisions and stopwatch timing, he drove Pentagon planners crazy with meetings run like academic seminars, marked by late starts, later ^ finishes and stretches of sedative analysis in between...
Berry said that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara came to Harvard during the Vietnam anti-war period. Students demonstrating against the war opposed McNamara's presence, forcing him to be "exited away from protesters through the food tunnels," Berry says...
...coup in Saigon. Kennedy was, writes Richard Reeves, "quietly desperate about the contradictions and misinformation swirling around him. Perhaps half of what he was being told was wrong, but he did not know which half." As he had done before, he dispatched personal envoys -- this time Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor -- to size up the situation...