Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, served for seven years as an assistant to Henry L. Stimson. Older Brother William P. Bundy, 47, is a 14-year Government veteran who was Allen Dulles' deputy at CIA for nearly ten years, later headed a 360-man shop at the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, is now the State Department's Far Eastern expert. At the Pentagon, Bill occupied an office in the outermost "E" ring just down the hall from where his father once worked for Stimson. Now, in the State Department, Bill...
...measure of Bundy's current value to the President was his role in the Dominican crisis. From the first, he was in the thick of it. He took charge of a high-level committee of Pentagon, State Department and CIA men that met every morning for weeks in his Situation Room to ride herd on day-by-day developments in Santo Domingo. It was Bundy who came up with the idea of establishing a U.S. "line of communication" as a buffer between rebel and junta forces in the city...
...held up McNamara's latest proposals for reorganizing the armed forces reserves. He is fighting McNamara's bill for a $447 million military pay raise. Rivers thinks the hike ought to be nearly twice as much, and he scoffed at the Administration's claim that the Pentagon figure would be enough to "attract and retain adequate numbers and quality of personnel in the armed forces." Rivers said the statement was "ridiculous on its face"-and Bob McNamara is not accustomed to such talk...
...biggest decisions a Secretary of Defense ever had to make," says a Pentagon officer, and he may well be right. For the question that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara must eventually answer is whether to order production and deployment of the Army's Nike-X anti-missile missile system. If McNamara says yes, it will cost the U.S. about $25 billion. And if, as the Army claims, Nike-X would offer the U.S. effective protection against ICBM attack, it would be cheap at the price. What McNamara must decide is whether the Nike-X system, with some...
...reporters must master the delicate art of writing news that is offered on the record, off the record, not for attribution, not for direct attribution, or for background. They must learn how to attribute stories to a "high-level source" in the White House, the State Department or the Pentagon when it is obvious to most readers who that high-level source is. In an era of instant communication, neither the President of the U.S. nor any other high-level source can afford the dangers of hasty misinterpretation. Information that has been passed along not-for-attribution can always...