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Article: Robert McNamara's inner war Vietnam architect confronts his legacy
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1995
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WASHINGTON -- Thirty years on, and Robert S. McNamara is still
consumed -- with Vietnam, with moral issues, with controversy.
Now he is 78 years old, holding forth in a well-appointed suite in
an elegant office building a few blocks from the White House. He
speaks with precision, passion and pain. The Cold War and the
communist threat have long since past, and yet the fires of Vietnam
burn again, in part because McNamara has broken his silence and, in
doing so, has broken the nation's domestic peace.
"This was a long time ago," he is saying. It is early in the
evening, and the mandarins of Bill Clinton's Washington -- many of
them still scarred by the war former Defense Secretary McNamara ...