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"Yes, Mr. President!"; Wielding new and wide-ranging executive-branch powers, George W. Bush has underlined the role of an exclusive club: the Cabinet members, West Wing staffers, and other official and unofficial advisers who help each president write the history of their day.
Byline: Todd Brewster
Robert S. McNamara sits forward in his chair and wags a finger at me. "I will tell you what leadership is," he says, his crisp diction reminiscent of the press conferences he held during the Vietnam War. "It's Jack Kennedy refusing to risk nuclear war when nearly everyone in the room is telling him to."
McNamara, now 90, is referring to an episode during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "I don't remember the exact time of the meeting," says the defense secretary for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, "[but] my recollection is that at least some of the Russian missiles were already in Cuba and ... more were on the way. We knew they would ...
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