i spent the summer of 1966 here. exactly where, i could not begin to identify for you. i went through various elevators and other areas, and i was working on lynn leaf, and when i went to the register, there was one other guy working in the room, and when i sat at the register, i saw to my horror that he was working on lynn leaf. oh, my god. dissertation book, that sort of thing. well, we moved around each other warily for a couple of days. and finally one of us had the nerve to make an introduction. we started talking. and it turned out that his study ended march 11th, 1941, when the lind lease act was passed, and mine began on that day. that was the beginning of a 50 almost 50-year friendship with warren kimble. so it s very nice to be back here. secretary of defense robert mcnamara came to personify the united states commitment in vietnam, and indeed, in many ways the ethos of the 1960s. he was the can-do man in the can-do society in the can-do era in david halverstam s
that he was working on lynn leaf. oh, my god. dissertation book, that sort of thing. well, we moved around each other warily for a couple of days. and finally one of us had the nerve to make an introduction. we started talking. and it turned out that his study ended march 11th, 1941, when the lind lease act was passed, and mine began on that day. that was the beginning of a 50 almost 50-year friendship with warren kimble. so it s very nice to be back here. secretary of defense robert mcnamara came to personify the united states commitment in vietnam, and indeed, in many ways the ethos of the 1960s. he was the can-do man in the can-do society in the can-do era in david hallverstam s phrase. in the early kennedy and johnson years, he managed the american commitment in vietnam almost as a desk officer, whether slogging through vietnam in army fatigues, spewing out statistics, or presiding at a press conference, and he came to embody what was known as secretary brown suggested