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...authors are Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State; Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense; George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State; Roswell L. Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Theodore Sorensen, special counsel to the President; and McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. Their analysis...
...candidate they would support. Nearly 90 percent said Lyndon B. Johnson. "Almost everyone seemed to share the basic goals-and the basic confidence-of the national administration." Michael Barone '66 writes in the Lant book. The College was liberal, ambitious-and ready to implode. Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara visited Quincy House in 1966, and several hundred members and sympathizers of Students for a Democratic Society gathered to block his egress, forcing him to climb on top of his car and snottily answer queries about the war in Vietnam...
Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition apologizing to McNamara for the disruption, still and all, the demonstration marked the birth of a third Harvard, a short-lived, hot-burning era that lasted until 1972 or thereabouts but whose effects linger still. This Harvard closed down spring after spring as students went on strike, occupied buildings, marched for peace, revolution, better treatment for local tenants and any number of other causes. This Harvard allowed little time for gentility or even excellence. "There was an element of uncertainty and disorientation that is easy so overlook, now that we all know how things...
...Bundy-Kennan-Smith-McNamara foreign affairs quartet, on the other hand, called for a renunciation of first use (after a buildup of conventional and second-strike retalitory forces) on the grounds that any nuclear conflict is likely to escalate and thus "involve unacceptable risks to the national life that military forces exist to defend." The Reagan Administration, as well as some West Europeans under the American nuclear "umbrella," strongly oppose any non-first-use declaration because it would allegedly lower the perceived risks to an aggressor contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first...
...proposal made by McNamara and his colleagues has its flaws. It does not explicitly make the buildup of conventional forces in Europe a prerequisite for renouncing the first-use doctrine. Yet without such a buildup, Western Europe would be very vulnerable to Soviet military attack. Foreign policy experts for West Germany's two leading political parties denounced the no-first-use idea. Karsten Voigt of the governing Social Democrats termed it "not attractive to us," arguing that "for the people of West Germany, a long conventional war is just as horrible in its effect as a limited nuclear...