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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in testimony last week on Capitol Hill. In reply to a question by Bobby Kennedy, McNamara gave hopeful credence to a rumor that had originated in Berlin, to the effect that the Russians might withdraw five of their 20 divisions in return for a quid pro quo by the U.S. "Would we be willing to lessen our presence in Europe and perhaps make some changes in NATO?" asked Kennedy. Said McNamara: "The direct answer to your question...
...world for Communism, neutralism seems unlikely to appeal to the aging hierarchy in Peking, which seems more than ever convinced that it needs more rather than less militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home. In any case, diplomacy is based on the practical possibility of a quid pro quo. The quid in Fulbright's proposal is that the U.S. would eventually pull out its troops. The quo? Peking can offer none, in a direct sense, since it has no Chinese troops stationed in Southeast Asia and thus can claim that it has no divisions to withdraw...
...that end, the President hopes to hustle both men off to the isolated acres of the LBJ Ranch. There, without retinues of advisers, Johnson hopes to apply his inimitable techniques of suasion to extract from his visitors a reasonable quid...
...fact, for all his prestige, Old Harry Byrd's influence was greatly exaggerated. For despite his uncompromising fiscal orthodoxy, Byrd ran his committee according to his own courtly code. He refused to block the liberal bills he abhorred, and eschewed the quid pro quo tactics by which more ambitious politicians achieve their ends. Yet Byrd, as one Administration aide puts it, "was like a yellow blinker. You had to slow down when...
...rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things going. People call him a chump, and Hedges is vaguely aware that they are right, but what can a man do when he lacks the "ability to loathe...