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...freshman Congressman in 1965, Republican Barber Conable of upstate New York sat in the East Room of the White House, fascinated by the scene playing out before him. Lyndon Johnson had summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
...studied medieval history at Cornell and American history throughout his adult life, suddenly had live figures to fit into an intellectual framework. He recalls thinking on that day in 1965 that Johnson was "a kinetic personality" who believed he could find an answer to every problem. In Viet Nam it was "victory." Johnson would simply order a Government agency into action, get money appropriated and then wait for the war to be won. Conable's knowledge of history made him wonder. Some problems, like wars, simply had no solutions, and successful leaders understood that. Johnson did not possess such...
...Frederick Smith, 40, dreamed up the idea of combining a squadron of planes with a fleet of delivery vans. As legend has it, Smith first proposed the plan in a 1965 term paper that earned him a C in an economics course at Yale. After two tours in Viet Nam, one as a Marine pilot, Smith decided to use a $10 million inheritance to try out his idea, and founded Federal...
McNamara breaks 16 years of silence on Viet Nam...
...White House ceremony in February 1968 to bid him farewell as Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, exhausted and anguished over the Viet Nam War, became so choked up that he could not speak. For the next 16 years McNamara remained speechless about that agonizing conflict, refusing to make any public statements. Last week, summoned to testify in General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS, McNamara finally broke his long silence. Even then, as he began to recall the controversies of the time, his raspy voice cracked once again, his lips trembled...