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Cavanagh, speaking at a Harvard CRIMSON-WHRB interview, said that the lack of low-cost urban housing would "develop over the next six months into the most crucial (domestic) problem...
...Secretary of Defense did not especially want to talk about the war, and he suggested somewhat apologetically before WHRB rolled its tape that his interviewers might concentrate more profitably on other matters. But the hot-shot young reporters knew that no pro would let Robert S. McNamara, principal architect of U.S. military strategy, get away without talking about South East Asia. So they played Press Release...
Though restrained and formal during the taped WHRB interview, McNamara was relaxed and engaging in conversation afterward. His responses were concise, tightly reasoned point-by-point capsule analyses. But his passion for exhausting the possibility of every idea sometimes carried his logic further than he meant to go on the record. And at these points, one of his aides would remind the secretary that if he let the remark stand he would be quoted in such a way on this or that issue; and the secretary would regretfully take it off the record. After one of these reminders, McNamara grinned...
...secretary carried a black raincoat and insisted that it be put next to his chair in the WHRB "or else I'll forget it." But he left it under his seat as he left the studio, and he was halfway out the door before he realized that he'd forgotten it. He turned vaguely to one of his aides, and then realizing where it was, stepped briskly back through the door to retrieve the coat himself. Leaving for Quincy House, he walked, crisp and business-like to a waiting car, his sleekly combed hair unruffled by the sharp wind overhead...
...tape of this interview with Secretary McNamara will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Thursday on WHRB...