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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration,

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamaras brilliant whiz kids tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. – Thomas Sowell

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