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2. Robert McNamara - Wikipedia

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   Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈ m æ k n ə m ær ə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

3. The Fog of War - Wikipedia

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   The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare. It was directed by Errol Morris and features an original score by Philip Glass.

4. Robert McNamara: The high cost of cold-blooded analysis

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   Early Monday morning, Robert Strange McNamara, one of the most divisive figures in American political history, died at his home in Washington. He was 93. As millions note (if not mourn) the death ...

5. Dereliction of Duty (book) - Wikipedia

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   Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam is a 1997 book written by H. R. McMaster, at the time a major in the United States Army (he subsequently became National Security Advisor in 2017 after having risen in rank to lieutenant general).

6. Margaret McNamara - Wikipedia

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   McNamara was born on August 22, 1915, in Spokane, Washington, and grew up in Alameda, California. [1] McNamara attended University of California, Berkeley, where she met Robert McNamara, whom she would marry on August 13, 1940. [2] Her husband's appointment by John F. Kennedy as U.S. Secretary of Defense led to their move to Washington, D.C.

7. "We Owe It to Future Generations to Explain Why." How Robert ...

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   John F. Kennedy Jr.—the president’s son who died a year later in a plane crash—chose, somewhat surprisingly, Robert McNamara, best known as being the defense secretary responsible for the ...

8. William Westmoreland - Wikipedia

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   Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told President Lyndon B. Johnson in April that Westmoreland was "the best we have, without question". [22] As the head of the MACV, he was known for highly publicized, positive assessments of US military prospects in Vietnam. In 1965, TIME named him man of the year. [23]

9. Henry Trewhitt - Wikipedia

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   In 1971, he published McNamara: His Ordeal in the Pentagon, a book about Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The book was based on Trewhitt's experiences covering the United States Department of Defense for Newsweek in 1965.