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...Secretaries Neil McElroy and Tom Gates before him, honest Bob McNamara tried to explain that merely counting missiles is not the way to assess U.S. or Russian military strength. All other weapons must be taken into account. The important thing, said McNamara, is that there should be no "destruction gap." Then, casually, he added that today the Russians probably have no more intercontinental ballistic missiles than...
Grand Deception. McNamara did not deny that during the next three years a nose count of Russian ICBMs may find the Soviets moving ahead. But the next day's papers headlined stories focused on the proposition that the "missile gap," which has worried the nation since Sputnik I shot spaceward in 1957, no longer exists...
...defensive strategy. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger's regular news conference was delayed an hour and a half while tactics were threshed out in the President's oval office. Then Salinger announced that since no study had been completed, there could be no conclusion that the missile gap had disappeared. The newspaper stories, said Salinger, were "absolutely wrong." At his own press conference next day, John Kennedy at first seemed to deny that there had been any McNamara meeting with the press ("if such a meeting took place"), stated that until his audit of U.S. defense forces was complete...
...gap flap was not easily silenced-and for good reason. During the campaign Candidate Kennedy had played heavily on the possibility of a dangerous missile gap. "We are facing a gap on which we are gambling with our survival," he said on the Senate floor a year ago. Lyndon Johnson had clucked that "the missile gap cannot be eliminated by the stroke of a pen." Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, the Democrats' chief defense specialist had charged: "A very substantial missile gap does exist and the Eisenhower Administration apparently is going to permit this gap to increase...
According to Prior, the Church of England "hardly touches what we know as the working class," and this social gap has strong political overtones; he says that the gape came about largely because the Church in the beginning of this century refused to work for the social justice of the working class and instead turned to more condescending charity. No amount of soup kitchens and psalms, "nothing short of a real spiritual revival," could bring social unity to the church...