Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's... -Thomas Sowell

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts....