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US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (L) w. US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (C), during visit w. Vietnamese Premier Khanh Nguyen (R).
Location: Saigon, Vietnam
Date taken: March 1964
Photographer: Larry Burrows
No comment.
McNamara's middle name was "Strange" -- he was a whiz kid from Ford who thought he was the smartest man on earth.
People are strange when you're a strangerQuote:
Originally Posted by bob seijas
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
DOORS
I can't forget McNamara's saga of cost control with the M-16 by the use of existing powder rather than the rifle's spec and by skipping plating the chamber. Not very keen, in the long run.
Bob
Only a professional bureaucrat would think he (or she) knows better than either those engineering a problem or facing the front line...
Russ
Bighting my tongue as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by ed skeels
The caption to this photo should be, "I will have this situation over by Christmas." LOL PS-- "I did not say what year!"
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Womack
The Saga of the M16 in Vietnam (part 1)
by Dick Culver
Welcome to Culver's Shooting Page
Yep, that's where I read of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
Bob