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...times, for all his series of painstakingly individual biographies, Halberstam seems to be in the process of inventing a sort of composite Kennedy man: Walt McNamara Rostow-Bundy. A man with "impeccable credentials" (the phrase occurs again and again) and the small withering smile that confirms them. A man less liberal than he might try to look. A superclerk, the "supreme mover of papers," possessed by "the belief that sheer intelligence and rationality could answer and solve anything...
...reverently when he had gone to see the ailing Douglas MacArthur and the old general had told him never to get involved in a war on mainland Asia. Kennedy bleated and complained about the news stories out of Viet Nam that ran counter to the cheery calculations of Robert McNamara's Pentagon computers and the bravado of the generals. But he was always tugged by reason and maybe, just maybe, had he lived to face the crunch he might have overwhelmed his gut, which said fight, and gone by his head, which suggested that Communists were...
...finalists for the 1973 Class Marshals are: M. Deacon Dake of Adams House; E. J. Dionne of Adams House: John Hagerty of Eliot House; Howard Keenan of Eliot House; Barry Malinowski of Kirkland House; Stanley P. Mark of Winthrop House; Tom McNamara of Eliot House; Walter H. Morris of Leverett House; and Lee E. Sheehy of Winthrop House...
...MCNAMARA...
Aboard the night ferry to Martha's Vineyard, a strange voice called out to World Bank President Robert S. McNamara that a phone call awaited him in the wheelhouse. As the former Defense Secretary started up the ladder, a young man attacked him and tried to throw him overboard. At 56, McNamara is still a strenuous New Frontier-era skiing and mountain-climbing enthusiast; he easily beat off the younger man, whose agility appeared somewhat addled by wine. The unidentified attacker was then restrained by friends. Why the attack? Apparently McNamara has dismayed the Vineyard's community...