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Enemies Aplenty. As Defense Secretary, McNamara wields immense powers, both overt and implicit. The Pentagon spends half the federal budget, employs more civilians (1,045,000) than any other federal agency. It is the biggest Government purchaser of goods and services from private industry. Moreover, in a period when U.S. diplomacy is more a matter of implementing existing policies than creating new ones, Defense has logically taken center stage from the State Department...
Campus Vietniks, dominating head lines with protest parades, teach-ins, draft-card burnings and fund drives for the Viet Cong, have made it appear that a majority of U.S. students share their views. Now, mainly in reaction to the protesters, overt campus activity in support of U.S. policy is growing. As a petition signed by 1,300 Harvard stu dents puts it, many students "wish to disassociate ourselves from that vocal minority which, distrusting American intentions, seeks to obstruct and mis represent American policy...
...first 50 applicants could neither read nor write. They were enrolled. It was a far cry from the days when Negro college graduates were contemptuously rejected by ill-educated Southern registrars for imagined failure to interpret a fine constitutional point. Surprisingly, there was little outright protest against and no overt interference with last week's registration effort. On the steps of Selma's courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled, "I'm nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully described the coming...
...extrapolated where Lasch's occasionally disorganized remarks leave the reader guessing. But it should be seen that The New Radicalism in America is a work of derogation, something of a native La Trahison des Clercs-far subtler than the original, it should be noted, since the author has no overt interest in recriminations, but still committed to puncturing the American self-consciousness where it hurts. Mr. Lasch intelligently sidesteps the more frequently trodden paths: stories of the dispossessed who mooned in Europe with Harold Stearns, then returned to claim their inheritence with Malcolm Cowley after the Crash; tales...
...caught in the act of sponsoring the first B-26 raid, reports Schlesinger, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, backed by McGeorge Bundy, convinced the President that the D-day morning raid "would put the U.S. in an untenable position." Everyone, says Sorensen, would have regarded it as "an overt, unprovoked attack by the U.S. on a tiny neighbor." Kennedy canceled the second strike; he changed his mind later, but after the strike was reinstated, it was rendered useless by bad weather. Sorensen carefully points out that Kennedy did not-as is often maintained-"cancel U.S. air cover" for the landing...