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2 days ago · McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. [4] McNamara was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Business School. [5]
3 days ago · Fears of appearing weak against communism compelled the Johnson White House to escalate in 1965 when it looked like Hanoi was making its final bid for Indochinese domination. As Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told a journalist in April, if the United States withdrew from Vietnam “there would be a complete shift of world power.
1 day ago · Two months later, Robert McNamara, Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense, reported that the war against communism was being won by the South Vietnamese government: “In the military sector of the ...
4 days ago · At Random House, he worked with Robert McNamara as editor of his book, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. He recalled going over a chapter about the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall, when McNamara “blurted out: ‘Look, the war was wrong.
5 days ago · Outgoing Defense Secretary Robert McNamara urged by contrast that it was time to deescalate the conflict, a position with which Johnson’s circle of security advisers and “wise men” — Omar ...
2 days ago · To give you an idea of just how despised Bob McNamara was by Vietnam veterans, check out the 0:23 mark of this song: The F-111 had its origins in McNamara's Tactical Fighter Experimental program in 1961, intended to meet the USAF’s requirement for a long-range ground-attack and close-air-support plane as well as the US Navy’s requirement ...
5 days ago · Membership in the Council on Foreign Relations comes in two types: Individual and Corporate. Individual memberships are further subdivided into two types: Life Membership and Term Membership, the latter of which is for a single period of five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application.
