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...five years at the Pentagon, relations between Robert Strange Mc-Namara and the U.S. Congress have been edgy at best. Never before, however, has the Defense Secretary faced so withering or widespread a bombardment as that which Capitol Hill trained on him last week...
...House Armed Services subcommittee's report last week accused Mc-Namara of "significantly misrepresenting" the case for the FB-111 in his own testimony, of applying "institutional constraints" on other Pentagon witnesses so they would hew to the Mc-Namara line, and of generally scorning Capitol Hill advice to such a point that the Congress has been forced into "a passive role of supine acquiesence" to U.S. defense policies...
...Representative Robert Griffin of Michigan, 42, co-author of the Lan-drum-Griffin Labor Act and one of the most active young Republicans in the House, became a candidate for the Sen ate seat of ailing Democrat Pat Mc-Namara, 71, who is expected to retire...
...should serve in a top Administration job. Of the eight men who have held the Defense post since it was created in 1947, he is by all odds the ablest and most controversial (TIME, Jan. 21). Yet as he entered his sixth year on the job, Mc Namara, 49, showed no signs of battle fatigue. Nor, for that matter, did the three other durable men who celebrated their fifth anniversaries as Cabinet officers last week...
...Capitol Hill, two of Robert Mc-Namara's most controversial canons are that 1) missiles must replace manned bombers as the primary strategic nu clear weapons, and 2) superfluous military installations must be eliminated. Last week, with Congress in recess, the Secretary of Defense took giant steps toward implementing both policies...