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McNamara left office on 29 February 1968; for his dedicated efforts, the president awarded him both the Medal of Freedom and the Distinguished Service Medal. He served as head of the World Bank...
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McNamara left office on February 29, 1968; for his efforts, the President awarded him both the Medal of Freedom [197] and the Distinguished Service Medal. [198] McNamara's last day as Defense Secretary was a memorable one.
Robert S. McNamara (born June 9, 1916, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died July 6, 2009, Washington, D.C.) was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 who revamped Pentagon operations and who played a major role in the nation’s military involvement in the Vietnam War.
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By 1967, McNamara had become convinced that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable; he urged a withdrawal of US forces but was overruled by Johnson. McNamara resigned from cabinet in early 1968 and soon after was appointed president of the World Bank. He held this office until his retirement in 1981.
McNamara became the secretary of defense in January 1961. In that post, he brought the military under greater and more centralized civilian control. In doing so, he enlarged his staff and moved to centralize decision-making authority.
Jun 9, 2021 · Brandishing a captured Chinese machine gun, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara appeared at a televised news conference in the spring of 1965.
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Composed of archival footage, recordings from the 1960s of conversations of the United States Cabinet, and new interviews with former- Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts McNamara's life, as seen from his perspective as an eighty-seven-year-old man.
