Robert McNamara's inner war Vietnam architect confronts his legacy

The Boston Globe | April 17, 1995| | Copyright

WASHINGTON -- Thirty years on, and Robert S. McNamara is still consumed -- with Vietnam, with moral issues, with controversy.

Now he is 78 years old, holding forth in a well-appointed suite in an elegant office building a few blocks from the White House. He speaks with precision, passion and pain. The Cold War and the communist threat have long since past, and yet the fires of Vietnam burn again, in part because McNamara has broken his silence and, in doing so, has broken the nation's domestic peace.

"This was a long time ago," he is saying. It is early in the evening, and the mandarins of ...

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