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Encouraged nonetheless by McNamara's "concrete proposal," South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, House Armed Services Committee chairman, called a committee session to hear Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's opinions on current draft procedures. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested that a bipartisan committee begin a study of the system...
...power-jealous Washington, it was inevitable that an official as dynamic, aggressive and determined as Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara would eventually face full-scale congressional scrutiny. Last week South Carolina's L. Mendel Rivers, a McNamara critic who became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee a year ago, announced that he will soon launch not one but four parallel investigations of McNamara's policies...
...Solution. Despite these drawbacks, the Administration has been under intense pressure to bomb the Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Echoing the Joint Chiefs, politicians of both parties -notably Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and his opposite number in the House, South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers-have be gun to protest that privileged targets hamper the war effort. Richard Nixon called for stepped-up bombing of the North to prevent the U.S. from becoming "bogged down" in the ground war. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford and Republican Conference Chairman Melvin Laird warned that Viet Nam would...
...however, McNamara is having his troubles with Congress-mostly in the person of L. (for Lucius) Mendel Rivers, 59, new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, a tall, militarily erect (although he has no service record) lawyer from Gumville, S.C., who now lives in Charleston. Rivers admires McNamara's ability, but he has long been irritated at the way the Secretary favored Vinson with inside information, often leaving the other 37 committee members in the dark. The new chairman's view came through clearly at a recent McNamara briefing. Riled by McNamara's patronizing attitude, he said...
Regaling his audience with a Jackie Masonesque style, Asimov then launched into a lengthy example of how Mendel's theories of heredity were overlooked for a generation, the delay producing misconceptions that may ultimately have led to two world wars...