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...Robert McNamara, whose bullet-headed manner made him appear an ideal fact-finder, had a fondness for mathematics. David Halberstam has reported that on one Vietnam trip, an edgy McNamara sat through a dull series of fabricated progress reports by American military advisers, but was exhilarated when one clever officer presented his fabricated progress report with elaborate charts, graphs, and computer statistics. Those were facts...
Avoiding military service in South Viet Nam has long been something of a national pastime. On a visit to Saigon back in 1967 (when the country harbored an estimated 40,000 draft dodgers), Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, flatly told the Thieu government that, if it wanted more U.S. troops, it had better get all those long-haired kids roaring around Saigon on motorbikes into khakis. Because of the invasion by the North, avoiding military service has once more become a life-or-death matter for several thousand Vietnamese. The draft has been temporarily expanded to make all males...
...bombing of Operation Rolling Thunder, the program of gradually escalating air attacks that the Johnson Administration pursued so doggedly for three long years. By March 1968, when Thunder was finally cut back, the U.S. was losing 20 planes a month, and North Vietnamese civilian casualties, by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate, were running as high as 1,000 a week. In the days following Nixon's TV address, the U.S. lost three planes and four crewmen. Ten MIGs were brought down by U.S. jets. One U.S. Navy Phantom destroyed three of the MIGs in a fierce dogfight...
Kistiakowsky. It was a very emphatic recommendation. We had even outlined a plan of what the study would involve in manpower and time and so on. Mr. McNamara's feeling was that time was of the essence. He wanted to develop details of the plan concurrently with the development of special devices, the so-called sensors, and so on, and also with plans for deployment. He felt if it were done in an orderly succession, it just would be much too slow. And at the end of '67, particularly after seeing that Mr. McNamara was essentially fired from...
Wiesner. The McNamara decision was announced in the fall of '67 and it was then that I began to oppose the ABM deployment publicly. I also stopped working within the government and started to work outside. After the so-called thin system decision, I gave up trying to convince anybody in the government to make sense on the ABM, for I regarded that as basically a political decision. There was no question in my mind that Mr. Johnson made the the deployment decision for political reasons. He still expected to run for President, and he was protecting his flank...