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Apr 2, 2014 · Robert S. McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth U.S. Secretary of Defense. He is best known for helping lead the United States into the Vietnam War....
The Vietnam conflict came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native...
Mar 15, 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.
Sep 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."
May 1, 2020 · Robert S. McNamara is surely one of the most iconic and notable figures in the history of post-Second World War American defence and foreign policy and especially of the Vietnam War. As American historian George Herring once wrote, McNamara ‘personified the American commitment in Vietnam’.
Robert McNamara (1916-2009) was the United States secretary of defence between January 1961 and February 1968. McNamara was a native of California, born in San Francisco and educated at Berkeley. He obtained a master’s degree in business from Harvard and served in World War II in an administrative capacity. After the war McNamara joined Ford ...
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...
