Robert S Mcnamara

The End Of 2009's Summer Of Death

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, not in the dozens. But all through the summer of 2009 came a ...

Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

Robert S. McNamara, Sonia Sotomayor, and Empathy

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

To manifest integrity in business means behaving with a clear set of values; those values balance self-interest and concern with interest in and concern for others.

Robert McNamara: Even In Death, Vietnam War Still Haunts Legacy

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...

On Robert McNamara

Joseph Nye | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Joseph Nye

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.

Errol Morris and the Passing of Robert McNamara

Brad Schreiber | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Brad Schreiber

Morris said, "very few people today know about the firebombing and hardly anybody knows about Robert McNamara's role in the firebombing".

Team of Rivals: JFK's Lessons for Commander-in-Chief Obama

Gordon Goldstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics


Gordon Goldstein

The new commander-in-chief would be wise to examine JFK's first year: Appoint the strongest team possible, yet be prepared to reject your counselors' advice, even when vastly outnumbered.