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	Robert McNamara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916), (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American businessman and politician, was (Click link for more info and facts about United States Secretary of Defense) United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968.
		McNamara was born in (A port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge) San Francisco where his father was sales manager of a wholesale shoe firm.
		McNamara expressed publicly his belief that the manned bomber as a strategic weapon had no long-run future; the intercontinental ballistic missile was faster, less vulnerable, and less costly.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_mcnamara1.htm (3532 words)

	McNamara, Robert Strange on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Nov., 1960, he became the first president of the corporation who was not a member of the Ford family, but he resigned shortly afterward to become (Jan., 1961) President Kennedy's secretary of defense.
		McNamara introduced modern management techniques in the Defense Dept. and asserted civilian control over the defense establishment.
		McNamara wrote The Essence of Security (1968), One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People (1973), and The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/McN1amara.asp (413 words)

	The Confessions of Robert McNamara
		McNamara was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 in the Kennedy Administration, which led the US into the Vietnam adventure, and in the Johnson Administration, which widened the involvement to a war in which 58,000 American troops died.
		McNamara does, to be sure, acknowledge that he and his colleagues were "wrong, terribly wrong," but the admissions account for relatively little of the book's substance.
		McNamara was able to skip a personal crisis when the draft board reclassified his son, Craig--who, like the rest of McNamara's family, opposed the war--from 1-A to 4-F (for ulcers).
	www.afa.org /magazine/june1995/0695edit.asp (761 words)

	Robert S. McNamara, Colin Powell & "The Fog of War"
		McNamara saw himself as a loyal soldier, who told the truth to his boss, the President of the United States -- that the Vietnam war was unwinnable, that the best thing the U.S. could hope for was an endless stalemate -- but who was overruled.
		Robert S. McNamara emerges as a pitiable wretch that we both understand a bit -- and thus we listen to his story with a certain sympathy -- and despise, because of his unwillingness to fully acknowledge and accept responsibility for his actions.
		McNamara confesses that he, too, was blinded by the constancy of that Cold War spotlight, and thus had to struggle to see the war in different terms.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0126-07.htm (2901 words)

	Foreign Affairs - The Stain of Vietnam: Robert McNamara, Redemption Denied - Douglas Brinkley
		McNamara was seen by Kennedy as the ideal implementer of his program, a corporate manager with a well-established reputation for cost-cutting and efficiency to preside over the expansion of military outlays Kennedy's program called for.
		McNamara's ability to shrug off the collateral damage of his policies to domestic and international politics allowed him to be presented in a flattering light by the press.
		McNamara had his detractors then, but they were a cracked chorus of fiscal conservatives and disarmament liberals who saw through the image of penny-pincher and charged that the Kennedy administration's flexible response deterrence strategy, which increased conventional forces by more than 300,000 troops, was profligate.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19930601fareviewessay5193/douglas-brinkley/the-stain-of-vietnam-robert-mcnamara-redemption-denied.html (1527 words)

	SecDef Histories - Robert McNamara
		McNamara was born on 9 June 1916 in San Francisco, where his father was sales manager of a wholesale shoe firm.
		In conjunction with assured destruction McNamara stressed the importance of damage limitationthe use of strategic forces to limit damage to the nation's population and industrial capacity by attacking and diminishing the enemy's strategic offensive forces.
		McNamara expressed publicly his belief that the manned bomber as a strategic weapon had no long-run future; the intercontinentalballistic missile was faster, less vulnerable, and less costly.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/mcnamara.htm (3149 words)

	WILSON'S GHOST: Robert S. McNamara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert S. McNamara was born during the First World War, served in the Second World War and then as Secretary of Defense to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, participated in the Cold War, overseeing our military involvement in Vietnam.
		Robert McNamara: as a child is of a city exploding with joy.
		Robert McNamara: And this is causing concern in the Asia Pacific Region.
	www.uncommonknowledge.org /01-02/607.html (3900 words)

	'It's Just Wrong What We're Doing'
		McNamara published a list of the 11 specific mistakes he believed the United States had made in and around the Vietnam war that still had relevance in the very different political and military climate of the 21st century.
		McNamara said it is particularly upsetting to see that the White House administration has ignored or failed to heed key recommendations coming from military officers on the ground in Iraq -- a crucial and oft-repeated mistake in Vietnam.
		McNamara was the first to argue, based on his own diary, that had he lived, JFK would have ended the Vietnam war in 1965.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0125-01.htm (2112 words)

	The Sixties . War & Peace . Newsmakers . Robert McNamara 1916 - \| PBS
		McNamara pointing at a map of Vietnam during a press conference.
		What makes McNamara's reversal so remarkable is that he is the individual responsible for executing government policies in Vietnam from 1961 to 1968.
		McNamara's 1995 memoir, In Retrospect, is a confessional of his guilt and remorse over his role in the war.
	www.pbs.org /opb/thesixties/topics/war/newsmakers_4.html (312 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Fog of War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, talks about "the fog of war" which consists of all the complexities and variables that make any discussion of it too short-sighted and fraught with simplicities.
		McNamara, who at various times has been called a technocrat, a hawk, an arrogant loner, and a computer with legs, discusses his incredible career and power base under the rubric of eleven lessons from his life.
		McNamara recalls this military campaign was put into place by General Curtis Le May who also wanted to blow Cuba off the face of the earth during the Missile Crisis of 1962.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_6643.html (775 words)

	Robert S. McNamara
		Robert S. McNamara was first a success in business, rising to become the first non-family president of the Ford Motor Company, and then as Secretary of Defense, where he applied management methods not seen before in the Defense Department.
		Robert Strange McNamara was born on June 9, 1916, in San Francisco, California.
		McNamara supported President Kennedy during the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, much to his regret.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1764.html (981 words)

	Robert McNamara, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Class Warfare)
		[In Robert McNamara's #1 bestseller In Retrospect, he] writes, "We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation.
		McNamara didn't mention the decision to vastly increase the bombing of South Vietnam.
		And McNamara reads this and says [Fall] changed his mind about the efficacy of what we were doing.
	www.chomsky.info /books/warfare01.htm (2255 words)

	The Evasions of Robert McNamara - What's true and what's a lie in The Fog of War? By Fred Kaplan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McNamara was the original and ultimate "Whiz Kid," who viewed the world's problems as solvable through statistical analysis.
		McNamara's recollection of the Cuban Missile Crisis is a self-serving travesty.
		McNamara concedes that it now appears this attack didn't happen, but claims that he and Johnson honestly believed that it did at the time.
	slate.msn.com /id/2092916 (1855 words)

	Transcript - Robert McNamara Forum - April 25, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McNamara was deeply involved in the development and implementation of U.S. policy in Vietnam until he became president of the World Bank Group in 1968.
		ROBERT MCNAMARA: The answer is a number of Veterans organizations have written to me about the programs that they are carrying out in relation to the veterans of Vietnam.
		In the Preface, Secretary McNamara states his thesis succinctly, and I quote, "We in the Kennedy and Johnson administration who participated in the decisions on Vietnam, acted according to what we thought to be the principles and traditions of this nation, yet we were wrong, terribly wrong.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/mcnamara.htm (12694 words)

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		McNamara states, "We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation.
		In fact, McNamara manages to evade the question of whether it was moral both to begin and to continue a losing war, for he admits to having indications of the latter as early as November 1963.
		McNamara's failure to grasp reality conclusively shows through when he mentions that "we failed to retain popular support in part because we did not explain fully what was happening and why we were doing what we did.
	www.digitas.harvard.edu /~salient/issues/950508/page7.html (903 words)

	Robert McNamara, Errol Morris return to Berkeley to share lessons learned from "Fog of War"
		The film covers McNamara's early life, touching on the four years he spent at UC Berkeley studying economics during the Great Depression, his and his wife's bout with polio, and his considerable achievements as a Harvard professor, one of the Ford Motors' Whiz Kids, and then the company's first president from outside the Ford family.
		McNamara wrote the report on the inefficiency of conventional bombing campaigns that may have inspired LeMay to take his B-29 bombers down to under 5,000 feet and rain fire on cities built of wood, killing nearly 1 million Japanese.
		McNamara, who perhaps has never used Google, sputtered that he didn't think that anyone would actually see the Canadian newspaper article, but he acknowledged that all of its quotations were accurate.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2004/02/05_fogofwar.shtml (2282 words)

	Robert McNamara Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McNamara graduated from the University of California in 1937.
		At the request of President-elect John F. Kennedy, McNamara agreed to serve as Secretary of Defense of the United States, a position he held from 1961 until 1968.
		McNamara is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has received many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (with Distinction), the Albert Einstein Peace Price, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Medal, and the Dag Hammarskjold Honorary Medal.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /McNamara/mcnamarabio.html (307 words)

	Review: Fog of War, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, has been an observer of and participant in many of the key events of the 20th century.
		Since McNamara's name is often viewed synonymously with the Vietnam War, more than a third of the film is devoted to a detailed explanation of the hows and whys of our involvement.
		McNamara doesn't back away from accepting a degree of culpability, but he makes it clear that there were times when he urged the President (in this case, Johnson) to pull out the troops.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/f/fog_war.html (804 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: In Retrospect : The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McNamara's recollections are put to rigorous testing by his junior author, VanDeMark, who checked them against the now-declassified written and taped records of the period.
		McNamara reveals that "I do not know to this day, whether I quit or was fired." At any rate, McNamara left the Pentagon to begin a successul ten-year term as president of the World Bank.
		Robert McNamara isn't very likable in this memoir, but must be admired for the almost brutally honest manner in which he reveals his flaws to readers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679767495?v=glance (2577 words)

	village voice > film > The Fog of War by J. Hoberman
		Although McNamara was clearly and profoundly corrupted by power, he does not come across as a grandstanding prevaricator like Henry Kissinger.
		By November 1967, McNamara appears to have concluded that the war was a lost cause and contrived to have himself replaced.
		Given his double bind, McNamara finally tells Morris, "I'd rather be damned if I don't." As the Frodologists of the '60s might have put it, he carries the Ring of Power to the rim of Mount Doom, but he won't throw it in.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0351/hoberman2.php (545 words)

	fogwar_1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Morris’ film is essentially a long interview with McNamara, divided into eleven lessons, and spliced with news footage from the times in question, as well as any other appropriate images Morris can get his hands on.
		Yet here McNamara is remarkably candid, like a great uncle we don’t see very often, who’s cornered us at some dull family gathering to impart all his wisdom and confess his mistakes.
		McNamara urged Kennedy to respond to the softer one, while the hawks urged a belligerent response to the belligerent message.
	www.geocities.com /fridaysaturdaymovie/fogwar_1.html (783 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Essentially, "Fog of War" is a slickly illustrated selection of interviews with Robert S. McNamara, the brilliant, arrogant, endlessly controversial secretary of defense from 1961-1968.
		Cut down from some 20 hours of one-on-one conversations over a year, the interview sequences are interspersed with expensive-looking shots of dominoes falling, flashes of newspaper headlines and gripping newsreel footage.
		This is not to say that Morris' fascination with McNamara doesn't come through as the weirdly charismatic, bizarrely boastful old bureaucrat shifts shape in front of your eyes.
	www.nypost.com /movies/13871.htm (370 words)

	Sorry, Mac - You're Not Forgiven -- April 16, 1995
		The facts, which McNamara now concedes, that the Soviets and the Chinese were already at each other's throats, and that the Vietnamese communists had long led a nationalist struggle against the Japanese and the French, was simply ignored.
		McNamara was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1968 for his loyalty to President Johnson.
		Perhaps it is time to present the Berrigans, Ellsberg and Fonda with Medals of Freedom, in the hopes that children will grow up to follow their example and not that of the McNamaras who defined patriotism as blind allegiance to a government that was as arrogant as it was wrong.
	www.robertscheer.com /1_natcolumn/95_columns/041695.htm (774 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Robert S. McNamara
		Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and General Westmoreland, Vietnam Assistance Command Commander, talks with General Tee on condition of the war in Vietnam.
		So, Bob McNamara has really served faithfully three Presidents: as a member of the Cabinet under President Kennedy and myself, and--after 20 years--as the man who made our Defense Department what Harry Truman wanted it to be.
		In Bob McNamara, the World Bank is gaining an executive of vision and a thinker who is also preeminently--with apologies to Mrs.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /RobertMcNamara.htm (967 words)

	'Fog' lets McNamara tell his side of the Vietnam War
		To the Vietnam generation, Robert S. McNamara -- secretary of defense to both Kennedy and Johnson -- has long seemed a top heavy of that conflict: a smug, arrogant statistician who disastrously tried to apply business principles to Southeast Asian geopolitics.
		The talk covers McNamara's childhood, his World War II years as a bomber pilot, his rise to the presidency of the Ford Motor Co., his appointment to the Kennedy team, and his experience in the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam (but nothing, curiously, about his 14 years with the World Bank).
		But McNamara sees Vietnam as an unfortunate extension of the Cold War and is not particularly haunted by it.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/159502_fogofwar06q.html (606 words)

	AllPolitics - Back in TIME for June 28, 1971
		The study was begun in 1967 by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who had become disillusioned by the futility of the war and wanted future historians to be able to determine what had gone wrong.
		McNamara is said to hope that the entire report will be declassified soon for use in libraries and archives, but feels the sensational way in which the documents were released is tragic.
		Yet McNamara is credited with the most pragmatic view of the incident: now that the documents are out, the country should forget about the man who leaked them and get on with the task of learning from the Pentagon papers.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9606/28/index.shtml (7531 words)

	The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He allows the subject of the documentary, Robert McNamara, to remain the focus of the film from beginning to end.
		This is an important film and while McNamara deserves most the credit for its success, Morris presented the content of this film in a way that made it both provocative and entertaining.
		As a former secretary of defense for John F. Kennedy and then Lyndon Johnson, McNamara was one of the most important figures from the Vietnam War, in charge of things like bombing campaigns and overall military strategy.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0317910 (921 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1996-97
		In the period 1965-67, Robert McNamara came to believe that Vietnam was "a problem with no solution." This is the theme of his book.
		McNamara's argument depends heavily on his view of the importance of Asia to the United States, and the extent to which withdrawal from Vietnam would affect the balance of power in Asia.
		Another weakness of McNamara's book is his failure to discuss systematically the gift of sanctuary which rendered the war inevitably "long and inconclusive." There have been no examples in which a guerrilla war (or a war dependent on external supply) has been won in which one side was granted sanctuary by the other.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/96winter/rostow.htm (5097 words)

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