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In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the middle of his tenure as defense secretary, embraced the moniker, wrote Tim Weiner for...
Jun 1, 2021 · In an explosive memoir in the 1990s Robert McNamara started trying to explain the Vietnam War. His publisher explains how it happened.
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Jul 7, 2009 · McNamara felt guilty about his management of the Vietnam imbroglio. His best-selling 1995 reflection on the personal and global nightmare that the war in southeast Asia became, In Retrospect...
Oct 14, 2011 · On this day in 1966, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara sent a memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson expressing his disillusionment with the war effort in Vietnam.
Jun 9, 2021 · The revelations in the Pentagon Papers infuriated a country sick of the war, the body bags of young Americans, the photographs of Vietnamese civilians fleeing U.S. air attacks and the endless...
In February 1964, Lyndon Johnson, then president for just a few weeks, spoke to defence secretary Robert McNamara. regarding the situation in Vietnam. Johnson urged McNamara not to discuss a possible US withdrawal from Vietnam: Johnson: “Hello, Bob?” McNamara: “Yes, Mr. President.”
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Jul 6, 2009 · Former defense secretary Robert McNamara revealed his serious doubts about the Vietnam War in his 1995 book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
