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...going to win, we're going to win" promised the old man as he rallied his followers in the U.S. House of Representatives. Next day, standing proudly in the well of the House, Georgia's Carl Vinson, 78, insisted that victory had indeed been achieved. "They have gotten the message," said "Uncle Carl," who is also known as "the Admiral" and "the Swamp Fox." He continued: "They know that Congress is not just talking, but that we mean business. So we can congratulate ourselves...
Strong evidence of the Democrats' restiveness is the fact that they willingly let Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a long time party bulwark, threaten a floor fight over the RS-70 long after the President and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara expressly announced their opposition to expanding the bomber program. Congressional Democrats may thus be serving notice on President Kennedy that they are not above jabbing his ribs if he does not pay them more dutiful attention...
...because of his go-slow approach to the development of the RS-70, the Air Force's reconnaissance-strike superbomber. First, General Curtis LeMay, the Air Force's cigar-chomping Chief of Staff, bluntly charged that McNamara was endangering the nation's security. Then Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee sided with LeMay, backed a bill that would give the Pentagon a direct order to speed construction of the RS-70. Last week McNamara, his patience gone, called a press conference to fire a salvo of facts and figures calculated to shoot down...
...This year the Air Force wants to modify the B70 plans and build the RS-70, which would be designed to fly over an enemy country hit by U.S. missiles, inspect the damage by radar, radio back reports and attack surviving targets with nuclear-tipped missiles. LeMay and Vinson, insisting that the U.S. will continue to need such bombers for some time, want to spend $491 million next fiscal year on a crash program to develop the RS-70. McNamara and President Kennedy want to spend only $171 million to continue development of three prototype...
...Zuckert stopped pushing for a stepped-up RS-70 program and fell in line with the Defense Secretary. That arrayed President Kennedy, McNamara, all three service secretaries and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff except Curt LeMay behind a throttled-back RS-70 program. Undeterred, Carl Vinson's committee sent to the House its bill to force the RS-70 on the Administration...