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...example. Though plenty of public opposition to U.S. policy in Viet Nam developed, the dissidents were deprived both of essential information-which the Government said it alone possessed and could not release for reasons of security-and of a respectable Establishment figure to rally around. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Weisband and Franck claim, was one of the insiders long tortured by doubts about the war. If he had resigned and openly turned against U.S. Viet Nam policy the formidable mental powers that he had originally used to analyze the war, the fighting might have ended far sooner...
...attended by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, CIA Director John McCone and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy at which the possible assassination of Castro was discussed. Although the possibility was said to have been dismissed, a memo written two days later by an assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara asked the CIA to prepare contingency plans for killing Castro. It too reportedly was quickly rescinded...
Ophuls submitted an outline of his proposed film, along with a list of other "possible witnesses and interviewees." Albert Speer, Dr. Howard Levy and General Vo Nguyen Giap were on the list, as well as such prominent architects of American involvement as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. Ophuls stressed, however, that the lineup of people to be interviewed would have to depend on the budget and on whom would be available. The similarities between Nazi Germany and America in Viet Nam were, for Ophuls, "an open question-but one that had to be explored." He also insisted that the final...
During the three-week trial it was apparent that Connally was not the average defendant-a point underlined by the character witnesses who had been marshaled to testify in Connally's behalf. Among them were Lady Bird Johnson, the Rev. Billy Graham, World Bank President Robert McNamara, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan -all large in their praise of the defendant. "Some folks don't like him," Lady Bird said, and after gales of laughter from courtroom spectators had subsided, she added, "but I don't think any of them doubt...
...institutions have made increasing use of more sophisticated tools of analysis derived, for the most part, from the disciplines of economics, mathematics and statistics. These methods were widely publicized a decade ago through the heavy use of technical analysis in the Department of Defense under the stewardship of Robert McNamara. Because the techniques have often been applied without sufficient judgment and discrimination, they have attracted their fair share of criticism. Yet the use of methods such as program budgeting, cost-benefit analysis and simulation models has continued to spread beyond the Defense Department to other government agencies and nonprofit institutions...