Also, Secretary McNamara was interested in achieving greater commonality between the services.

Secretary McNamara promised fast delivery of the investigation report ("... you will have it in 4 hours.")

In late 1965, Secretary McNamara ordered the B-58's retirement by 1970.

Secretary McNamara was convinced that the problem required some kind of an organizational arrangement to "manage the managers."

Secretary McNamara approved and ordered the study to be "encyclopedic" and "let the chips fall where they may."

It was not part of Secretary McNamara's selected reserve force.

Secretary McNamara wanted procedures to keep that from happening again.

Secretary McNamara had long been a proponent of weapons program consolidation among the armed services.

Secretary McNamara was considered intelligent but insensitive by his contemporaries in Washington.

Secretary McNamara later said that the hot line had proved "very useful" in preventing what could have become a direct American-Soviet confrontation.