1.0 link 228340 <![CDATA[Harold P. Ford on Robert McNamara in Retrospect]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-e-jackson-jr/harold-p-ford-on-robert-m_b_228340.html While an undergraduate at Davidson College, Harold P. Ford was my political science professor in the years (1955-57) he was on leave from the Central Intelligence Agency. *

In addition to the Soviet Union and Communist China, there was one other country to which professor Ford devoted special attention: Vietnam. (Or, The Two Viet-Nams, as in Bernard Fall's title.) Before Robert McNamara became Secretary of Defense in 1961, and after the French defeat at Dienbienphu, his students were taught to view...

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