Word: pentagons
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Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, knows the Pentagon well. For 14 of his 16 years in the House, he served on the appropriations subcommittee handling military spending, and he has shown familiarity with national-security issues as a frequent critic of Democratic defense policies. The chink in Laird's armor is his lack of administrative experience, and last week he moved to close it with an impressive appointment. As his Deputy Secretary of Defense, No. 2 man in the Government's biggest department ($80 billion a year, a military and civilian personnel...
Beginning as a novelist in the 1940's, when he wrote The Naked and the Dead, Mailer has recently turned to journalism. His latest works are Armies of the Night, on the 1967 march on the Pentagon, and an account of the political conventions in Miami and Chicago...
Optimism and Gloom. The intelligence quandary would be easier for Nixon to unsnarl if each segment of Government argued with one voice-with, say, the State Department citing political considerations to counterpoint the military contentions of the Pentagon. That has been known to happen. In 1963, after listening to conflicting reports from a general and a diplomat who had just returned from a joint mission to Viet Nam, President Kennedy was moved to inquire: "Have you two gentlemen been in the same country...
...this time the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department are all split themselves. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau. In the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency are assembling a rosy picture of a seriously weakened enemy and a greatly improved South Vietnamese military machine, a vision shared by U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams and his headquarters in Saigon. But the Defense Department's civilian-dominated...
WHEN he went to the Pentagon in March, Clark Clifford was cast as a hawk. That was largely because Lyndon Johnson had told and retold the story of how Clifford, in the fall of 1965, had argued against what was to become a 37-day bombing halt over North Viet Nam. But the casting was misleading. Then chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Clifford was opposed to a pause in the bombing principally because of its timing. The U.S. then was just beginning to build up its forces, and could ill afford the sudden upsurge...