Posted on 07/06/2009 6:21:18 AM PDT by DFG
Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died.
McNamara, 93, died at home in his sleep Monday morning, his wife Diana told The Associated Press. She said he had been in failing health for some time.
Known as a policymaker with a fixation for statistical analysis, McNamara was president of the Ford Motor Co. when President John F. Kennedy asked him to head the Pentagon in 1961.
McNamara worked for seven years as the defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, longer than any other person in that post. He headed the war department during the build-up of forces in Vietnam.
He is considered the architect of the concept of "mutual assured destruction," a key feature of the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.
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The worst Secdef in my lifetime.
If half of what I have seen is true then I dont think he is so thrilled with himself now...
Almost singlehandedly responsible for the disaster of the VietNam war
Doggone shame we can't hold his trial now.
Bad man. Good death.
I liked him. MSM always harps on his mea culpa book and ignores Dean Rusk’s unwavering support of the Vietnam war during his entire lifetime (Rusk being Secretary of State when McNamara was SecDef).
This was already posted but with a different title.
I searched for the exact title on the article but found no matches. It would help if people would not change the title.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286427/posts
1. Simon Cameron
2. Robert S. McNamara
3. Donald Rumsfeld
Long overdue.
You should read the book “The Reckoning” by David Halberstrom. McNamara may have been President of Ford, but he knew almost nothing about either cars or manufacturing. He held manufacturing people in low regard and resisted investment in factories. At one point, he suggested that factory efficiency could be improved by assembling a car in two halves and then welding them together. Unbelievable, but true. The long decline in US car quality started with him.
NO.
We don’t do that on Free Republic. Ok bud.
When someone dies, we offer thoughts and prayers to their family. Because we have class. and we believe all fall short of the grace of God.
I know that was a very painfull time for the USA. But I am sure Mr McNamara felt the pain, just as Lyndon Johnson did, just as Richard Nixon did. Does anyone doubt that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon LOVED this country ?. Bob McNamara doesn’t deserve hatred. God rest his soul. He served the United States of America. He was a patriot.
A duplicitous liar who held primary responibility for what happened in Viet Nam. May he RIP, but I doubt he will.
Almost singlehandedly responsible for the disaster of the VietNam war
“Almost singlehandedly responsible for the disaster of the VietNam war”
We have a winner.
You put them both in the SAME SENTENCE???
Nixon yes. But Johnson??? He loved Johnson.
I’ll reserve comment. I hope he makes peace with many U.S. soldiers who went before him.
He was neither the “Best nor the Brightest”.
Well said.
The kind of suggestion that can only from from a Harvard MBA.
He told them there were using too many bullets, remember that one?
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