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Defense secretary Robert S. McNamara escaped less blithely. When McNamara turned down an SDS request that he participate in a debate on the Johnson administration's war policy during his November visit to Cambridge for a seminar at the new Institute of Politics, SDS called for a demonstration outside the Quincy House seminar. When McNamara emerged from Quincy House, 800 protesters blocked the surrounding streets and mobbed his car, forcing him to climb on its hood and agree to answer question "for five minutes." "How many South Vietnamese civilians have we killed?" someone asked McNamara said he didn't know...
...balance of payments deficit in the advanced countries of the world and also in the developing countries, and to create a new institution to make soft-term loans of 2.5% over 15 years, something like that, for projects in the developing countries. That is why World Bank President [Robert] McNamara called it a new Marshall Plan, but obviously with a much bigger scope because it concerns the whole world. This should really strike the imaginations of people because Europe was saved by the Marshall Plan...
After the planned March 11 demonstration "to protest Gerald Ford's existence" was mentioned, Kirkpatrick Sale took the floor. Sale said, "Harvard should not be less hospitable to Gerald Ford when he visits than your predecessors were when Robert McNamara visited here...
...memorandum to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Kennedy stressed the "training of police forces of new emerging countries to assure that they can maintain order without the necessity of firing upon civilian demonstrators who are often composed of students...
...McNamara said he and Corcoran will continue to negotiate with Texaco and will "spend hours on their knees" if necessary to obtain extra gasoline. Referring to probable snowplow cutbacks. McNamara said grimly. "If we have a snowstorm this month, we'll all be dead...