FEBRUARY 29, 1968: A DAY THAT SHOULD LIVE IN IRONY
On February 19, 1968, Robert S. McNamara's long tenure as Secretary of Defense ended in a sequence of events that resembled a Greek drama written jointly by Euripides and Aristophanes. It was a foul day, with rain falling in sheets, and President Johnson was, to put it mildly, in a foul mood. On the previous day we had had a White House ceremony in which he had awarded McNamara the presidential Medal of Freedom and enough was ...