LeMay and McNamara, polar opposites who’d battled over a wide range of national security issues, each convinced that the other was dangerously wrong, now found themselves in much the same place. They ended 1968 in humiliation and disgrace, their views repudiated by the American people.
And, like he did with Powers, LeMay began shopping the idea around to all the networks, claiming it was like a Laurel and Hardy meets Gomer Pyle.
