When I was editor of The Hill, one young reporter told me about the emotional reaction of her father, a former Naval officer in Vietnam, to McNamara's memoir. I have reprinted it here.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Norman Morrison, a Quaker from Baltimore, handed his infant daughter off to a bystander, doused himself with kerosene and set himself ablaze under McNamara's window at the Pentagon.
McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- Robert S. McNamara, the Kennedy-Johnson-era defense secretary, will be most remembered as a man instrumental in sending hundreds of thou...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
One of the most dramatic, and in some ways revealing, incidents in the long life of McNamara occurred in 1972 -- when a young man, attempted to heave him off the Martha's Vineyard ferry.
Joseph Nye | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Part of me will never forgive him for the consequences of his mistakes in Vietnam. But another part respects him for his efforts to come to terms with his actions and to help a younger generation to learn.
Avery Corman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
I was struck by McNamara's appearance on that platform, imperious, deferred to, a celebrity, or something else, a member of royalty playing with his soldiers and toys.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
One of the things that is likely to prevent former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara from receiving the same wall-to-wall coverage in death that Micha...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Robert S. McNamara, the brainy Pentagon chief who directed the escalation of the Vietnam War despite private doubts the war was win...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting America's most controversial war and then de...
Al Eisele | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics