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Article: Former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara dies at 93. Policymaker was key figure in Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis * Johnson confidant discouraged Israeli preempti
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- July 7, 2009
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DANIELA FELDMAN and AP
Jerusalem Post
07-07-2009
Headline: Former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara dies at 93. Policymaker was key figure in Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis * Johnson confidant discouraged Israeli preemptive attack on Egypt in '67, but helped keep the Soviet Union out of the conflict
Byline: DANIELA FELDMAN and AP
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 19
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 -- Robert S. McNamara, the former US secretary of defense who was vilified for carrying out the Vietnam War, died Monday at the age of 93.
McNamara was fundamentally associated with the Vietnam War, dubbed "McNamara's war," the country's most disastrous foreign venture, ...
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