{"id":7913,"date":"2019-11-15T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2019-11-15T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:58:00","slug":"mcnamarad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"McNamara&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Arthur Sylvester retired on February\u00a01,\u00a01967, after six years on the job as McNamara&#8217;s senior press aide. He published an essay in <em>The Saturday Evening Post<\/em> ten months later in which he brutally mocked the Pentagon press corps: &#8222;I don&#8217;t know a newsman who has served the government as an information officer in the Pentagon who hasn&#8217;t been dismayed at the evidence of shabby performance by what he used to think of with pride as his profession.\u2026 For six years I watched cover stories [promulgated by his office] go down smooth as cream, when I thought they would cause a frightful gargle.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>There was no learning curve among the men in the Pentagon running the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Seymour Hersh,\u00a0<em>Reporter<\/em>, (New York: Vintage Books, 2018), 62.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that Sylvester is describing a Pentagon press corps as unquestioningly swallowing lies throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Sylvester retired on February\u00a01,\u00a01967, after six years on the job as McNamara&#8217;s senior press aide. He published an essay in The Saturday Evening Post ten months later in which he brutally mocked the Pentagon press corps: &#8222;I don&#8217;t know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=7913\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}