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...independent, non-Communist South Viet Nam." McNamara used identical wording in a memo to L.B.J. the same month, but fuzzed the goal by adding the far broader view of Viet Nam as a "test case of U.S. capacity to help a nation meet a Communist war of liberation . . . not only in Asia, but in the rest of the world." Then, in January 1965, McNamara penciled his approval on a statement by his assistant, McNaughton, that the real U.S. goal was "not to help friend, but to contain China." A month later, McNaughton, demonstrating the McNamara team's fondness for figures...
Dean Dunlop announced the grant in a February 25 memo to PBH executives and members of the advisory Faculty Committee on PBH. The service organization's request for long-term funding was turned down...
...preliminary study by the Committee on Students and Community Relations last year advised a thorough re-examination of PBH's role in the University and community. Dunlop's memo was attached to a five-page report by Dean May detailing the questions to be considered by the committee...
...narrow ties. Lately, however, some staffers have begun to acknowledge the revolution in men's fashions by showing up for work in loafers, striped shirts and flared trousers. To Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM's chairman, the whole trend was clearly unacceptable. And so, in a recent memo reported last week in the Wall Street Journal, he let employees know exactly what he thought about...
Osborne works as hard at reporting as he does at writing-he sometimes locks himself up for hours sharpening the language of his columns-and he has good pipelines into the high echelons of the Administration. Last week's column revealed the existence of a memo from Nixon to Kissinger as far back as Feb. 1, 1969, instructing him to explore all available avenues for better relations with China. It is this kind of special detail that Osborne regularly digs out for his readers, adding depth and dimension to his commentaries...