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...Danger. Fantastic though they seemed, the reports of the plot were rated so critical in Washington that the President called in his top security advisers. On hand at the White House on the night before Johnson's departure were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara, Secret Service Chief Jim Rowley and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The question before them: Should the President cancel his trip...
Just what the U.S. military would do in space is not entirely clear. Aside from sophisticated surveillance satellites, there seem to be few military space projects that appeal to such tough-minded civilians as Secretary of Defense Mc-Namara. An orbiting atom bomb might scare some people as it swept over their countries; but if it were called down on an enemy city, it would be no more destructive than a single ballistic warhead. It would be vulnerable too, for its orbit could be calculated and small atom-armed rockets could be shot up to wreck it. Orbiting military posts...
...commands a ship is, by necessity as well as by tradition, the unquestioned lord of his vessel. Some top admirals of the U.S. Navy carry this quality to shorebound duties in the Pentagon. But nowadays they are questioned by an equally authoritarian operator, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. And right in the middle of these collision-bound forces sits a string bean of a Texan who holds down one of the most impossible jobs in Washington: Navy Secretary Fred Korth...
...gets all gussied up in a jet flight suit, he looks like a cartoonist's rendition of a Sad Sack Spaceman. But on the basis of his performance so far, Korth is far from being ridiculous. He is neither the admirals' cabin boy nor one of Mc-Namara's whiz kids...
...Independence in the Cuba quarantine last fall, claim that carrier aircraft would provide mobile bases to deliver a nuclear punch in a big war, could support ground action almost anywhere in a small one, would be indispensable in seeking out enemy submarines. Declares one admiral about Mc Namara's doubters: "There's always the need to educate these new people about the great value of carriers. We've just got to put our reasons in terms McNamara's Whiz Kids can understand...