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4 days ago · Sound recording of a National Security Council (NSC) meeting held on October 2, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS ...
17 hours ago · Even in the midst of following “a remarkable array of people” that included Robert McNamara, Maxwell Taylor, Averell Harriman, David Halberstam, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Colby, the added advantage of delving into the familial as well as the diplomatic aspects of the story stands out.
5 days ago · Ninety-three Lockheed F-12B interceptors were ordered though Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara refused to release the funding for production. After three years, the order was cancelled. The Air Force liked the A-12, however, and ordered 32 of the more widely known two-place SR-71A “Blackbird” reconnaissance ships.
1 day ago · The reception was hosted by Madame Bluntschli at ‘Ardoch’ in Dandenong Road, St Kilda. Above the bridal table hung ‘a huge aeroplane constructed for the festive occasion by the bridegroom’s comrades at Point Cook’, and the wedding cake, decorated with four miniature aeroplanes, was cut by the new Mrs McNamara using her husband’s sword.
2 days ago · McGinn stresses the overarching need to repair the “rigid and linear Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process” for distributing appropriated funds, which was inaugurated in 1961 by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
4 days ago · Errol Morris is an American film director of "The Thin Blue Line" (1988), "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" (2003), for which he won the Academy Award for best documentary, and a number of other acclaimed films.
3 days ago · 'The whole of our defence policy in the strategic nuclear field in the second half of the decade was founded upon availability of Skybolt', David Ormsby-Gore, the British ambassador to Washington, complained to Robert S. McNamara, the US secretary of defence, but to little avail.(quoted on p. 167) The cancellation of Skybolt, Ashton argues, was ...
