Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compromise Course. McNamara apparently opposes direct commitment of U.S. troops at present to combat the Viet Cong Communists. Back in Washington at week's end, he delivered a 1-hr. 15-min. verbal report to President Johnson, prepared a long written memorandum as well. Pentagon sources predicted that McNamara, while not discarding the possibility of some form of harassment against North Viet Nam, such as hit-and-run raids by Vietnamese guerrillas, was expected to urge that Washington simply step up its logistical support...
Died. Colonel John Charles Nickerson Jr., 48, U.S. Army missileer who publicly attacked a 1956 Pentagon decision to limit the Army to short-range missiles, for which he earned a court-martial and a tour of duty in the Canal Zone, but vindication when an Army Jupiter put the first U.S. satellite into orbit; in an auto accident; near Alamogordo...
Three-in-Five. At week's end Johnson announced that Hilsman's job will go to William P. Bundy, 46, now Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and, in effect, the Pentagon's "Secretary of State." The shift could mean an end to the squabbling between the Defense and State Departments over Viet Nam policy. Bundy is a brother of top White House Aide McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs...
...ensuing contest is exciting and ideologically correct throughout. For example, the film has a civil rights tinge. The producer has dutifully used Negroes in minor roles wherever he deemed it appropriate. A Negro in the Pentagon running an automatic door receives a good deal of film footage. Negroes sit in the airports. They march in the pro and anti-treaty lines before the White House. Finally, there are Negroes at the President's press conference as the film closes. These are simply kowtows to the New Republic set; if the producer had real guts he could have cast Sydney Poitier...
...Power at the Pentagon, a study of Washington's huge military establishment and the influence it wields, by Jack Raymond, Pentagon reporter for the New York Times...