CBS Evening News - 1964-11-18
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[0:04] direct from our Newsroom in New York
[0:06] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:09] Cronkite and Richard C hartlett at the
[0:12] United Nations Lou wood and Macomb
[0:14] Mississippi Hughes run in Chicago Sam
[0:16] Zellman in Los Angeles Roger Martin
[0:18] Washington and Bill plant in Brooklyn
[0:21] good evening defense secretary McNamara
[0:24] today announced the single largest
[0:26] reduction in the country's Army Air
[0:28] Force and navy bases since the Korean
[0:30] War the DraStic cutback Mr McNamara told
[0:33] a Washington news conference will
[0:34] involve 95 military installations in 33
[0:38] States these installations including
[0:40] some of the Navy's huge shipyards
[0:42] employs 63 000 persons McNamara
[0:45] estimated the reduction eventually will
[0:47] save the government half a billion
[0:49] dollars annually in announcing the
[0:51] far-reaching cutback McNamara explained
[0:53] why he believes it's necessary the
[0:56] Department of Defense
[0:58] and indeed the entire federal government
[1:00] must operate its Affairs in the most
[1:03] efficient and effective way possible
[1:05] only in this way can we get the maximum
[1:08] benefit
[1:09] out of the resources that are allocated
[1:11] to the public sector of our society
[1:14] and secondly we believe that in order to
[1:16] operate efficiently in order to keep
[1:18] Pace with the rapidly shifting
[1:20] technology in a changing world
[1:22] this department must be prepared to make
[1:24] regular and substantial changes in its
[1:27] use of facilities and people
[1:30] and finally we believe that the
[1:32] government as a whole
[1:33] must assume responsibility to help
[1:35] mitigate the impact of these changes
[1:38] and to help communities and individuals
[1:40] make the