The legacy of Robert Strange McNamara, the Ford Motor Co. whiz kid who led the Pentagon into the quagmire of Vietnam, holds a lesson for every bright young thing hired to solve problems with pure ...

• McNamara was defense secretary from 1961 to 1968. • Served under two Presidents: Kennedy & Johnson. • He was the Architect of the Vietnam War. • He stayed in the defense post for seven years, longer ...

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 93. McNamara ...

Robert McNamara, one of the primary architects of the Vietnam War, died Monday at age 93. Jim Lehrer talks to Deborah Shapely, the author of a McNamara biography, and Errol Morris, the documentarian ...

Robert McNamara was one of Camelot’s most inglorious bureaucrats, but he also counted as among its most enduring. His résumé, prior to entering the Kennedy administration in 1961, is known better than ...

Vietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert McNamara couldn’t make peace with. In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the middle ...

WHEN he was a young man, Robert S. McNamara worked as a counselor at a boys camp. Today, as the Secretary of Defense, he is in charge of 4 million people and $175 billion worth of property, including ...

Even before Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon in early 1968, this man of absolute certainties about almost everything had begun to have nagging doubts about the Vietnam War, about what was widely ...