Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet Nam...
...long after an advance text of Hubert Humphrey's Viet Nam speech reached the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson spent half an hour on the telephone with Richard Nixon. The White House, naturally, did not discuss the conversation, but it is a safe assumption that the Democratic President and the Republican presidential candidate wasted little time talking about wheat sales or the World Series. By the time Humphrey phoned the White House, shortly after delivering the speech, the reaction from Johnson's end of the line was, in the words of an aide to the Vice President...
Washington has long hummed with rumors of a Johnson-Nixon "understanding" on Viet Nam-something along the lines of "don't rock the boat." To be sure, the President has pulled the rug out from under Humphrey every time he has deviated from the Administration's position on the war. Two weeks ago, during a heated meeting of the National Security Council, the President heard Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and then-Ambassador to the United Nations George Ball appeal for greater flexibility. Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi. He argued that...
Emblems of Service. In drafting his statement on Viet Nam, Humphrey chose his words with excruciating care. He went through seven drafts of the speech, taped it six times before he was satisfied. James Rowe, a Humphrey campaign aide and a factotum for Democratic administrations since the New Deal, said the wording of the crucial paragraphs "must have been changed 300 to 400 times." When he was ready, Humphrey made certain that the vice-presidential seal and flag-emblems of his service to Lyndon Johnson-were nowhere in sight. "I wanted to speak as Hubert H. Humphrey, candidate for President...
...Essence of Security is not the gossipy memoir or the in-fighter's recollection that many readers might prefer. Rather it is a businesslike assembly of "policy statements," a kind of memo to the American people, culled from recent reports and speeches. McNamara is regrettably reticent on Viet Nam. But the book reveals not only a highly humane character behind the supposedly cold surface but a deep and liberal concern about excessive nuclear armaments and a too militaristic di rection of U.S. policy...