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Kennedy also left his staff; the Johnson Administration, remember, started out as the Kennedy Administration minus Kennedy, but complete with such hugely influential Cabinet members as McNamara at Defense...
...almost glacierlike quality of the Cold War." He won a reputation, as a journalist put it admiringly in 1960, as "a Stevenson with balls." With him came a whole coterie of equally tough young advisors, proud to call themselves hard-nosed realists, including the likes of McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara and Maxwell Taylor...
...said about Kennedy's record on Vietnam was that--when he wasn't being a full-blown hawk--he was timid as the war grew, indecisive, and left the details to others (some of those others, like Ambassador Frederick "Fritz" Nolting in Saigon, were blind and inept; some, like McNamara, were too clever for anyone's good...
...with advisors just after the assassination, as if the new President couldn't even wait for his predecessor to be decently buried to start bombing hamlets. What Stone doesn't mention is that the people eager for fighting were the advisors, top Kennedy men like Bundy, Walt Rostow and McNamara...
...McNamara concludes by recommending that the U.N. help developing countries establish step-by-step, long-range programs, financed with the assistance of the World Bank, for coming as close as possible to zero population growth...