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Article: Vietnam-era defense chief McNamara dies at 93
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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WASHINGTON - Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of
defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a
disastrous conflict he later denounced as "terribly wrong," died
Monday. He was 93.
McNamara died at 5:30 a.m. at his home, his wife Diana told The
Associated Press. She said he had been in failing health for some
time.
McNamara was fundamentally associated with the Vietnam War,
"McNamara's war," the country's most disastrous foreign venture, the
only American war to end in abject withdrawal.
Known as a policymaker with a fixation for statistical analysis,
McNamara was recruited to run the Pentagon by President John F.
Kennedy in 1961 from the presidency of the Ford ...