After receiving a report Wednesday night regarding two men who had “gone into” the Housatonic River, the body of one of the men, a 23-year-old, was recovered Friday morning, New Milford police said.
both foreign and domestic, is simply remarkable. we ve heard about the dominican republic, the nato crisis, the middle east war, czechoslovakian invasion, demonstrations in the streets of the united states. any one of these crises could have defined a presidency. for example, if we look at president jimmy carter s administration, it involved notable successes, but it s best remembered for the iranian hostage issue. when the iranians took over the american embassy in tehran, and then held hostage americans for more than a year. think about mcnamara. in january 1968, the north koreans seized the uss pueblo naval vessel on the high seas. they in effect held a naval crew hostage for more than a year before releasing them. though the pueblo is a mere footnote to the tumultuous events of 1968. robert mcnamara was involved as a major participant. we all know that. but what s remarkable is that mr. mcnamara knew the details, he knew the specifics of what was going on. in an interview
the story is that following mr. mcnamara s testimony before congress on the failure of the air war against vietnam in august of 1967, the joint chiefs gathered in the chairman s office, general earl wheeler, and discussed among themselves whether they should resign in protest. there were problems with the story. one, wheeler wasn t in the country. he was in germany on official business. and shortly after general wheeler returned to the united states he suffered a heart attack, and was in walter reed. the only two chiefs who were asked about this dismissed it, one in very crude terms, and wheeler later told the president that there had never been such a meeting. so that is about as far as i can go with that controversial story. as secretary brown alluded to, we associate this period with mcnamara, and with vietnam. but mcnamara s involvement in a whole series of other crises, both foreign and domestic, is simply remarkable. we ve heard about the dominican republic, the nato cr
go with that controversial story. as secretary brown alluded to, we associate this period with mcnamara, and with vietnam. but mcnamara s involvement in a whole series of other crises, both foreign and domestic, is simply remarkable. we ve heard about the dominican republic, the nato crisis, the middle east war, czechoslovakian invasion, demonstrations in the streets of the united states. any one of these crises could have defined a presidency. for example, if we look at president jimmy carter s administration, it involved notable successes, but it s best remembered for the iranian hostage issue. when the iranians took over the american embassy in tehran, and then held hostage americans for more than a year. think about mcnamara. in january 1968, the north koreans seized the u.s.s. naval vessel on the high seas. they in effect held a naval crew hostage for more than a year before releasing them. though the pueblo is a mere footnote to the tumultuous events of 1968. robert mcn