[lbo-talk] more LBJ tapes

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>"Frankly, we're going to just snow the place under with bombs,"  McNamara 
>said. "And I'm doing it purposely to make them cry, 'Stop'."

"We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the 
decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles 
and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in light of those 
values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations 
to explain why. I truly believe that we made an error not of values and 
intentions, but of judgment and capabilities."

        -- Robert S. McNamara, "In Retrospect"

<http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/mcnamara/top.htm>

Carl

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