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Robert Strange McNamara (1916-2009)
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Robert Strange McNamara, born June 19, 1916, in San Francisco, died in his sleep at...July 6, 2009, a few days after his 93rd birthday. His father, Robert James McNamara, was sales manager of a wholesale shoe company. His mother was...
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Robert McNamara's inner war Vietnam architect confronts his legacy
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/17/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...war former Defense Secretary McNamara prosecuted -- are rushing home in the gathering dusk. But McNamara is speaking slowly, measuring...act. He has written a book. Robert Strange McNamara is in the center of the storm...
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Looking ahead: why the real lesson of Vietnam eludes Robert McNamara.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...at least a small thank-you to Robert Strange McNamara for his memoir, In Retrospect...surface. One must dig beneath McNamara's platitudinous explanations...The president was forty-three Robert Kennedy was thirty-five World...
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Readers' Forum: Not shedding tears for Robert McNamara
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 7/18/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Instead, we had to endure McNamara and his policies until a month...memoirs, "In Retrospect", McNamara speaking of a time around late...t buy any of it. So long, Robert Strange McNamara, on whichever side you reside...
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Former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara dies at 93. Policymaker was key figure in Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis * Johnson confidant discouraged Israeli preempti
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/7/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...July 7, 2009 -- Robert S. McNamara, the former US...middle name was "Strange." In the Kennedy...in April 1967, McNamara made recommendations...minister Abba Eban, McNamara and other American...Israeli border. "Robert McNamara was an...
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WAR & REMEMBRANCE.(Robert Strange MacNamara, secretary of defense in the Vietnam era)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 9/12/1997; ; 700+ words
; On not forgiving Robert S. McNamara For most people who labor in the imperial capital, chance...most notable, if notorious, Washingtonians of them all: Robert Strange McNamara. He was lunching alone at a table for two in the Old Ebbitt...
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Confessing the sins of Vietnam. (former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara accepts blame for mistakes made during Vietnam War era)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 4/17/1995; ; 700+ words
; THE "S" IN ROBERT S. MCNAMARA STANDS FOR "Strange," his mother's maiden name...across their lives. The war--"McNamara's War," it was sometimes...ended 20 years ago this month. McNamara left office as secretary of defense...
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FILM REVIEW: A brief history of Robert S. McNamara
News Wire article from: University Wire; 1/22/2004; ; 644 words
; ...EVANSTON, Ill. -- Robert S. McNamara might be the most...politics. Morris, no stranger to such biographies...presentation and McNamara's attitude render McNamara completely human...from the Life of Robert S. McNamara...
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Why Vietnam? // Searching for McNamara's soul
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/15/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...years since Robert S. McNamara secretly committed us to...decade-long obsession with McNamara, our former Vietnam...not. To some extent, Robert S. (the S., aptly, stands for Strange) McNamara now probably looms larger...
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LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND MCNAMARA
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/3/1993; ; 700+ words
; Promise and Power The Life and Times of Robert McNamara. By Deborah Shapley. Little, Brown. $24.95...became viewed as a statistician of the other kind. Robert Strange McNamara was secretary of defense throughout most of what...
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Robert Strange McNamara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Strange McNamara , 1916-, U.S. Secretary of Defense...Kennedy's secretary of defense. McNamara introduced modern management techniques...growing doubts about the war led McNamara to resign from the cabinet. From 1968...
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McNamara, Robert Strange
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
McNamara, Robert Strange (b. 9 June 1916). US Secretary of Defense 1961–8; President of the World Bank 1968–81 Born in San...
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Robert S. McNamara
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of defense, and president of the World Bank. Robert Strange McNamara was born in San Francisco on June 9, 1916, the son of Robert James McNamara, sales manager for a wholesale shoe company...
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Scott, Randolph
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Broken Dreams (Vignola) (as Dr. Robert Morely); Thundering Herd (Hathaway...The Spoilers (Enright) (as Alexander McNamara); Pittsburgh (Seiler) (as Cash Evans...Feist) (as Major Callicut) 1953 The Stranger Wore a Gun (De Toth) (as Jeff Travis...
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