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3 days ago · Robert McNamara was an American business executive and public official who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and later as President of the World Bank. He is remembered for his role in escalating the Vietnam War and for significantly expanding the World Bank’s efforts in poverty reduction and development.
5 days ago · McNamara would later say that “the memo and its derivatives became the focus of our attention and acrimonious debate for the next five months” (In Retrospect 151). The first sentence of the section, “Essential Elements in the Situation” is “South Vietnam is not going well” ( #313, 674 ).
2 days ago · Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, with Brian VanDeMark (New York: Times Books, 1995), xvi, 86-87. “A Roundtable on Mark Moyer’s Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 38:3 (2007): 5-22.
3 days ago · The unfinished nature of My Name Is Earl ruined the whole show in retrospect, as it felt like every episode was slowly building towards nothing. Not only did the My Name Is Earl finale leave the issues of Earl’s list unfinished, but it also introduced a cliffhanger that Joy had an affair and Darnell was not Earl Jr.’s biological father. The ...
6 days ago · WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting America's most controversial war and then devoted himself to helping the world's...
4 days ago · In the 1960s, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara suggested a shared fighter-attack aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps to save costs in design, procurement, and support.
1 day ago · May 21, 2024. ANN ARBOR — Every story has a beginning, and every story that lasts has something that sets it apart from others like it. According to Phil Converse, who joined the Institute for Social Research in its early days and went on to become its director, ISR’s differentiating factors were evident very early on.
