THE COLD WAR

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: July 28, 1961
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Vol. LXXVIII No. 4
TIME
THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE
THE NATION
July 28, 1961
THE COLD WAR White House where plans for Berlin be- which would be fought by conventional
Chief of Staff gan to harden. From time to time, he sat armies backed up, if need be, by tactical
in on the President's talks with official atomic weapons. Many U.S. military men
(See Cover) visitors. He made himself available to the claim that the U.S. is now prepared for
Military measures have no merit in White House team on problems far re- limited warfare, but Taylor has argued
themselves. They are only tools of a moved from the military. Over and over time and again that the U.S. is ill-
broader strategy in a cold or hot war. again, Kennedy staffers were heard to . equipped to counter aggression with any
These are the words of the paratroop say: "Let's go ask Taylor about this." means but the "inflexible response" of
general who led "The Battered Bastards Flexible or Inflexible? Maxwell Tay- nuclear retaliation.
of Bastogne," of the military diplomat lor's presence in the White House is sym- Faced with a conventional attack, says
who commanded U.S. troops in Berlin bolic of an evolving change in the U.S. Taylor, the U.S. now has no alternative
(1949) and Korea (1953), of the schol- military posture, a change that is reflected but to risk national suicide by starting
any Superintendent of the U.S. Mili- in the planning for Berlin and Southeast an all-out war "or retreat in the face of
tary Academy at West Point (1945), of Asia, and in the defense budget now before the superiority of Soviet conventional
the restless, rebellious Army Chief of Congress. For Taylor is the leading advo- forces. We have accepted as a deliberate
Staff under Dwight Eisenhower. They cate of the philosophy of "flexible re- decision continued inferiority on the
are the words of General Max e l Dav - sponse" to Soviet aggression-a varied ground in those areas where we may be
en po 'eran~' . d
~o 't t i U.S. capability for action that might challenged on the Communist periphery."
statesman who, by a remarkable turn range all the way from rifle fire to a hail "Sense of Urgency." As Army Chief of
in the wheel of fortune and the special of nuclear missiles on Moscow. Taylor Staff from 1955 to 1959, Taylor fought
needs of John F. Kennedy, last week had argues that the nuclear standoff between unsuccessfully for a bigger and better-
the biggest, toughest job of his career: Russia and the U.S. makes a "general equipped Army, finally quit in frustration,
military and intellli encence adviser to the war" less likely than a "limited war," and poured his theories into an outspoken
President of the urutea adviser
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staff, Taylor has been scrupu- $r '~ judgment, and a genuine sense
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until asked-but he was being w it a tai Since then, President Kenne-
asked more and more, she won
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knack for sketching a ;problem
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part in " the intensive, two-hour U.S. TANKS ON BERLIN'S TAYLORSTRASS
rifle shot tThe Admin-
session with Kennedy in the The goal: more than e r o r id'soning: a limited
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O , war against Russia would ]cave the situa- erman, Spanish and Frenc a ~lor is maadeorg a o .r. LQVCryIqq
tion flexible enough so that general war n intellectual." says one White House ing the U.:i.-from West Berlin to So ith
might be averted. Many U.S. officials ? affer, "You give him a problem in the Viet Nam--has its military implicatic ns.
argue that, by definition, it would be im- diddle East, and he wants to know how But the White House staffers, in whom
possible for two great powers such as the erxes handled it." the President has confidence, have no iiil-
U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to fight a limited April Fiasco. Although he had never itary experience. and Kennedy had ost
war. But Taylor has long claimed that a et Taylor, President Kennedy was so im- faith in tl e military advice that he vas
limited war in Europe was indeed possi- ressed by The Uncertain Trumpet and getting from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
ble. To take the other view, Taylor says a man's general reputation that he be- Says one -ranking Pentagon official of
in The Uncertain Trumpet, "means that 4an looking for a job for him right after Army Ger eral Lyman Lemnitzer, Ch iir-
any collision of patrols would automati- -king office. In all, Taylor was suggested man of thi joint Chiefs: The Presicent
cally result in general atomic war." or at least eight jobs on the New Fron- just doesn ,. fi r4 Lemnitzer responsive to
Steely Glint. In his new job General ier. Kennedy even considered him for 'his needs. He's just not the forceful, dy-
Taylor wears sober civilian suits, but they ecretary of Defense but reluctantly de- namic. pejuasive person that this siua-
do nothing to cloak the commanding air Sided against the idea because he did not tionc__qqu~l
of a professional soldier. Though he is I'cant a military man in the job. Taylor vas exactly the man the Pi esi-
doing his best to fit in with the free- Thci rt1, John Kennedy made the dent want,-d to have around. Agreed lob-
wheeling White House staffers-as non- treat b u n, er of his Administration: he by Kenneeb', the Administration's reciuit-
military a group as any college faculty- tent the ill-prepared. anti-Castro rebels ing officer: "We need a man like Tailor
the first time one of the resident eggheads into the Ba, o s. What was more, to give th ngs a cold and fishy eye." I'he
greeted Taylor with an airy "Good morn- enncdy nia e t c military mistake of problem `'s to put Taylor in a position
ing, Max," the glint of steel flashed in withholding air support from the rebels. to do just that. F jyiiile, Kenredy
t ed will the idea of replacing Lemni tzer
DEFENSE SECRETARY MC 4AM(RA & GENERAL. LEM,ITZER
Accommodation fouId; confidence lost.
the general's eye. But Taylor managed to ~f n d _- shouldered the re-
restrain his celebrated talent for chew- sponsibilityty f~-Cuban fiasco, but in
ing out an offender and smiled a casual rival he blamed the advice begot from
hello. t e entral Intelligence Agency and the
For all his bone-hard military manner, m`litary guidance he received from the
Taylor has shown the Kennedys that he l~taChis -gd_Staff. Mad and upset,
can handle himself agilely in any social { ennedy looked about for a man to find
situation-from humorously barbed, din- out what went wrong. A quick phone call,
ner-party small talk to the more energetic and Maxwell Taylor ml k ejolh ~d
competition of the tennis court. Taylor For nearly two I
has f Bob y ennc y holed up in an o ice in
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But when they give me a good doubles with the help of Clk-- '
partner, I usually win." and" ie oI" \,'aval Operations Arleigh
Occasionally cupping a hand to an car Burke. Last month, with the concurrence
-he was deafened slightly by a demoli- ''b'1' is colleagues, Taylor made his main
tion charge in the '3os-Taylor has also rqanUX-t@ John Kennedy. 5ad,Jie:
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demonstrated that he can hold his own the CIA shou
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actions similar to the as well is any man in America.
,I It in high-powered debate with such White in future mmaaor
House word men as McGeorge Bundy, Cuban venterreiui s1iould be allowed to an extraordinary battle commander-the
the former faculty dean of Harvard Uni- continue small-scale covert activities. mast tightly`stf=disciplined of cIf er } ever
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versity, M.I.T.'s Walt Rostow, or Arthur Bigger Problem.
Schlesinger, Harvard's Pulitzer prizewin- 1 already beginning to realize that a far this job. Taylor is not a concilratoor Tie's
ning historian. A lin 1 in t of actively interested in the exercise of pow-
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wif {i Tayl t r but gave it up because of the
predictabl.explosion that the move W.il`uid
have toucied off in the Pentagon an( on
Capitol Hjlls_Finally, Kennedy create d a
special job for Taylor: Military Reire-
sentative of the President.
Pentagon Battle. At the President's
discretion Taylor is available to give top-
level. searching criticism on plans submit-
ted by either the civilians in the