Unsurprisingly, it's no coincidence that the principal who expels Berger is named "Mrs." McNamara. Robert McNamara was a WWII officer who served as Secretary of Defense under LBJ.
Instrumental in presenting an incident of northern Vietnamese agression (the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which was later proved false intelligence), McNamara rallied the troops to increase US presence and military action ( resulting in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution). His influence as one of the primary architects of the war resulted in a mass increase of US troops in Nam, and he supported attrition warfare tactics (essentially the wearing down of the opposing army through loss of life and resources).
A bad day for LBJ
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