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...this time, by timing his announcement to coincide with Congress' adjournment, McNamara prevented General Le May from using the Senate Armed Forces Committee and headed off any attempt by Messrs. Vinson, Symington and Goldwater to organize against him. By the time Congress reconvened the missile contractors would have ceased production and begun reconversion of their plants. The sooner the order was given the harder it would be for Congress to contravene...
While plunging into such specifics, McNamara never lets them blur the end purpose of his cold war strategy. That strategy was explained to Congress fortnight ago in a 198-page report that House Armed Forces Committee Chairman Carl Vinson, who has fought some McNamara policies, described as "one of the most significant documents ever presented to Congress...
...recent fight over a 15-member Rules Committee, which presumably would not act as a roadblock to Administration legislation (TIME, Jan. 18). McCormack had thought he needed the ten votes of Georgia's House delegation to win that battle. He thereupon entered into negotiations with old Carl Vinson, dean of the House Georgians. In return for Georgia's votes-plus Landrum's promise that he would support both the President's tax program and medicare-McCormack agreed to get Landrum on Ways and Means...
...hands, McNamara turned horse trader. Wiring each of the 50 Governors, he offered to compromise with them on which units would be cut back. His Pentagon staff worked overtime to win the support of reluctant Congressmen. McNamara himself paid a quiet call on Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, at Vinson's cattle farm. Flattered, Vinson couldn't say no. His tacit agreement led to last week's announcement of the biggest reform of the nation's standing militia since World...
Discharged in 1946, White received his law degree from Yale magna cum laude. He married his University of Colorado sweetheart, Marion Stearns, daughter of the university president. Fresh out of law school, he got a cherished appointment: law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. Kennedy, then a U.S. Representative, had his office near the Court building, and the two met again. "When we bumped into each other, we always had something to talk about," says White. When his term with Vinson was up, White went to two of Washington's biggest law firms in search...