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Sep 25, 2018 · Published on September 25, 2018. Robert S. McNamara (June 9, 1916–July 6, 2009) was a secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s and the chief architect and most vocal defender of the Vietnam War. He spent his later years as an elder statesman, apologizing for an escalation of the conflict that became known as "McNamara's War."
Jul 7, 2009 · Robert S. McNamara, the forceful and cerebral defense secretary who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral ...
May 13, 2024 · Robert Strange McNamara, one of the most recognizable and controversial figures of the Vietnam War, served as the Secretary of Defense under both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. His policies changed the way that the military operated and also shaped the strategy of the Vietnam War. Robert S McNamara was born on June 9, 1916 in San ...
McNamara and His Vietnam War By Connor L. Haupert Robert S. McNamara, one of John F. Kennedy’s Whiz Kids, was educated at Harvard Business School and served as the longest and most controversial Secretary of Defense in American history. During his tenure, McNamara oversaw the increase of advisors and troops that were deployed to Vietnam.
- Connor L Haupert
- 2020
Apr 22, 2021 · McNamara’s career history is dominated by his 8 years at the Department of Defense (1961–8). His long and important career at the World Bank (1968–81) is much less well known. The World Bank barely features in The Fog of War, to McNamara’s evident frustration (Bloom, 2010: 142). Understandably, McNamara’s public identity is almost ...
- John Richard Heath, Leo McCann
- 2021
May 1, 2020 · But McNamara's own definition of ‘loyalty’ made him refuse to make public this fact, even after he left the Pentagon in early 1968. In short, Basha offers readers a serious revision of both Robert S. McNamara's tenure as Secretary of Defense and the militarization of the American involvement in Vietnam in 1964–5.
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When Lovett declined, Kennedy chose Robert S. McNamara on Lovett's recommendation. McNamara was born on 9 June 1916 in San Francisco, where his father was sales manager of a wholesale shoe firm. He graduated in 1937 from the University of California (Berkeley) with a degree in economics and philosophy, earned a master's degree from the Harvard ...
