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...Pentagon as a fact of life as well as a theory, McNamara perhaps went too far in alienating service officers. He not only outthought and outmaneuvered such potentates as General Curtis LeMay, but he sometimes humiliated them as well. Within the Pentagon his information policies throttled internal dissent. Even Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, himself a rebel against traditional military procedure, protested: "Independence of expression has now become almost unthinkable...
...Dwight L. Wilbur, president-elect of the American Medical Association,* and the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, the President's old friend and personal physician. In its proposals for wide and deep reforms the commission showed remarkable unanimity; there were only half a dozen footnotes of individual dissent in its 86 pages of review and recommendations...
...Horror & Dissent. Fun is not totally foreign to the Living Theater. In one playlet, for example, to a unison drumbeat of feet there is a rapid-fire recital of everything printed on a dollar bill. But the troupe is obviously happiest with horror, since that best expresses its dissent from contemporary society. Its tour de force is a 31-hour Grand Guignol saga called Frankenstein, which begins with eleven people being dragged screaming, pleading or fighting to the stage. There they are gassed, crucified, electrocuted, and garroted...
While on the subject of dissent, as at some other times, Johnson turned his comments into a harangue. Irately, he denied that he had ever branded dissenters as unpatriotic. But he did say that among the critics "there are some hopeful people and there are some naive people in this country and there are some political people. And all of these hopes, dreams and idealistic people going around are misleading and confusing and weakening our position. We have never said they are unpatriotic, although they say some pretty ugly things about us. People who live in glass houses shouldn...
...peoples of the Asian countries." Sato warmed Johnson's heart further when he pronounced himself "keenly aware that the position of a leader is often a lonely one filled with tribulations." Himself besieged by leftist anti-government rioters before he flew to the U.S., Sato commented dryly on dissent in America. "It has been suggested that perhaps we should institute an exchange program for demonstrators," he remarked with a crooked smile on his Kabuki-actor's face. "From what I have seen, I would not like...