Armed Forces: Fighting Bob

For a man with a computer's correctness. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara certainly kicks up a lot of controversy. The Air Force, the Navy, the Joint Chiefs. Great Britain, Charles de Gaulle, many U.S. Governors and the Congress—he has fought them all. Last week Fighting Bob was at it again.

First he got mad at Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. The group was looking into McNamara's choice of General Dynamics Corp. for a $6 billion-plus contract to build a new fighter aircraft, the TFX, for the Air Force and the Navy....

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