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...Good Hot Rumpus. Next day Carl Vinson rose on the House floor, determined to make the best of things. He read the letter from Kennedy, which declared: "Your devotion to our continued military effectiveness is admired and appreciated." He read the letter from McNamara. which promised a restudy of the RS-70 in light of the Congressman's views. Vinson insisted that his strategy all along had been merely to raise a fuss over the RS-70 that would force the Administration to pay closer heed to congressional advice on military affairs. "We had to raise a good...
...noble try, but it did not quite come off. "We can't afford very many of these victories," said a Democrat in the Speaker's lobby. "The Admiral is leading a charge to the rear," said a Republican. When Vinson was done explaining, the diluted RS-70 bill was approved by a vote...
...maneuvering last week between Congressman Carl Vinson and the Kennedy Administration, the bomber that was the cause of the fracas was all but ignored. What is the RS-70? Why did it stir such emotion in the Pentagon, the White House and the Congress? Is it a bust or a super plane...
Despite these points, McNamara admits that changing circumstances might make the RS-70 necessary in the future. He now plans to spend an additional $52 million next fiscal year to see if the highly sophisticated equipment required for the RS-70 can be built. What is more, McNamara promised Vinson that he would spend at least some of the extra money voted by Congress on the aircraft "if technological developments advance more rapidly than we anticipated...
Both McNamara and the Air Force are persuasive in their arguments about the RS-70. By withdrawing his attempted congressional directive to the President, Carl Vinson staved off a potentially debilitating argument. Yet if Bob McNamara does not live up to his promise to reopen and restudy the issue of the RS-70, he may have history to answer...