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...McNamara to Battle the Budget
...restless, indefatigable man with a flair for statistics and corporate buzz words, Ash is similar to McNamara in many ways. He is an immaculate "clean-desk" administrator who reads three papers a day, believes that everything can be solved when all the facts are known, and has little patience with men who do not perform. He has little time for small talk and even less for social pretension-he still drives to work in a station wagon and wears shiny California suits. The father of five, Ash once applied his business instincts to a long family vacation in Europe...
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said the war was technically feasible McGeorge Bundy made it intellectually us it was a historical necessity," Halberstam told an audience which included fellow Vietnam journalists Francis Fitzgerald '62 and Kevin Buckley. "America was a 'can-do' nation. To McNamara, technology was the answer to everything. Just stick a few computers into the rice paddies..." Halberstam said...
...writes, and he knew the liberal had nowhere else to go. So he turned his back on the liberal stevensonian, Chester Bowies, and cultivated the Lovetts and the Luces. Lovett impressed upon Kennedy the importance of choosing a professional Cabinet of "the right people"--people like Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Douglas Dillon. When Kennedy, the Irish Catholic from Boston, replied that he did not know the right people, Lovett told him not to worry, it would all be taken care of. And it was. No statistics dredged up by C. Wright Mills could make the point better than that anecdote...
...that when civilians gave the military only half the number of troops requested, they thought they were "drawing the line." Only later would they find that reading even that many troops turned the line late a rubber hand which would stretch and stretch and stretch. Robert McNamara, who called into the Defense Department determined to end the reliance on nuclear weapons, inevitably compensated by revving up the conventional armed forces. He had experienced similar problems at Ford, where an ill-fated campaign promoting safety in automobiles left the hotshot glamorous car as the only remaining alternative. The options were prefabricated...