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1. www.nytimes.com › 2009/07/07 › usRobert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93

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   Jul 7, 2009 · Robert S. McNamara, the forceful and cerebral defense secretary who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral consequences,...

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3. www.latimes.com › local › obituariesRobert S. McNamara dies at 93; architect of the Vietnam War

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   Jul 7, 2009 · McNamara, 93, who died at his home in Washington on Monday after a period of ill health, came to harbor regrets about his role as the architect of the war’s deadly escalation, but he kept his...

4. www.latimes.com › california › storyHow Robert McNamara’s son healed his family's Vietnam wounds ...

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   Jul 17, 2022 · In 2009, Robert McNamara died at the age of 93. His son was in Washington, and at his father’s bedside within the hour. A few years after his death, McNamara made his first trip to Vietnam ...

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5. foreignpolicy.com › 2009/07/06 › robert-mcnamaraRobert McNamara dies at 93 - Foreign Policy

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   Jul 6, 2009 · Robert S. McNamara, probably the most influential (and most controversial) secretary of defense in U.S. history, passed away this morning. Because of his role in the Vietnam war, Mcnamara...

6. www.cbsnews.com › news › robert-mcnamara-ex-pentagonRobert McNamara, Ex-Pentagon Chief, Dies - CBS News

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   Jul 6, 2009 · Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting the Vietnam War, then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday. He was...

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Robert_McNamaraRobert McNamara - Wikipedia

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   Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈmæknəmærə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

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   Is Robert McNamara dead or still alive?

   • "Ex-Defense secretary Robert McNamara dies at 93". USA Today. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2017. ^ "Robert S. McNamara, Former Defense Secretary, Dies at 93" Archived April 10, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. New York Times, July 6, 2009. ^ "McNamara, Robert Strange". ANC Explorer.

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   Who was Robert McNamara?

   • The casualties would mushroom to 58,000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese over a decade of conflict. Robert McNamara obituary: The obituary of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the July 7 Section A called him a Democrat who moved in Republican corporate circles when he was offered a Cabinet post in the new Kennedy administration.

   Robert S. McNamara dies at 93; architect of the Vietnam War

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   Why did Robert McNamara resign?

   • Robert McNamara eventually turned against the war, and he left his job as secretary of Defense in 1967 for the World Bank at President Johnson’s behest. In later years, he publicly expressed regret for his role in the conflict, writing in his 1995 memoir that it was “wrong, terribly wrong.”

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   What happened to Bob McNamara?

   • By 1967, McNamara was suffering visibly from the nervous strain as he went days without shaving and he suffered spasms where his jaw would quiver uncontrollably for hours. Johnson said about him: "You know, he's a fine man, a wonderful man, Bob McNamara.

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   What did McNamara See from his office?

   • All McNamara saw from his office was the smoke rising from the parking lot, but he was sufficiently troubled by the incident that he refused to discuss it with his family, all the more so because his wife Margey was opposed to the war and sympathized with Morrison's feelings, if not his suicide.

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   Who is Robert Strange McNamara?

   • Robert Strange McNamara Strange was his mother’s maiden name was born June 9, 1916, in San Francisco to Robert and Clara Nell McNamara. His father, the son of Irish immigrants, managed a wholesale shoe company. “My earliest memory is of a city exploding with joy,” he said in “The Fog of War.” It was Nov. 11, 1918 the end of World War I.

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9. www.npr.org › 2009/07/06 › 106293695Former Defense Chief McNamara Dies at 93 - NPR

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   Jul 6, 2009 · Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara died Monday. He was 93. His wife told news organization he had been ill for some time. McNamara served as secretary of defense during the Vietnam...