Word: mcnamaras
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...place that originated the phrase 'the episodic response' and 'sustained reprisal'." Referring to animosity toward construction workers on the part of college students, he said, "Who told them that the war in Vietnam was all right? It wasn't the head of Local 14-it was Rostow, McNamara, Bundy...
...color television. But whatever we have been doing, it has been personal and private, and there has been time to think. And most of us have realized that yes, the smug predictions are probably true, and the wave has crested. This is the quietest year at Harvard since Robert McNamara came to town in 1967, and Nathan Pusey's values have been reasserting themselves...
...asked, in due course, about the quality of the U.S. military strategy and performance in Viet Nam. We are up against the most experienced guerrilla fighters in the world, but we tried to force much of the South Vietnamese military effort into conventional U.S. military forms. The whole Kennedy-McNamara-Johnson doctrine of slowly stepping up the levels of force was a failure. The enemy was always able to adapt and respond. The fantastic complexity of the U.S. command structure, the mystifying extra layer at Pearl Harbor, the tremendous logistical and bureaucratic component in our forces in Viet...
...seminar on defense policy, full of government employees who were studying at Harvard and studded with guest speakers from the highest ranks of government. One Faculty member later called Kissinger's seminar "essentially a show. In a way, it was impressive just to see who he would bring." Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs, for example, were among the visitors to the seminar. And the magic name of Harvard was their drawing card...
Second is the role imputed to outside intervention. Non-university police come in, and it is like Americans or North Vietnamese coming into the country. In Secretary McNamara's language, it is "a wholly different war." On most university campuses the tradition of "conservatives" on both sides-the non-negotiators on both sides-is that there should not be any alien infiltrators or occupiers. The North Vietnamese must go home, the Americans must go home, the police must stay away, the Berkeley veterans have no business here, the French must stay out, the welfare mothers must stay out, the federal...