Jul 06
Robert S. McNamara Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 23:46 · 100 words · print
Robert McNamara, the US secretary of defense whose broad career as an industry leader and a global financial aid revolutionary was overshadowed by his role as key architect of the Vietnam war, died Monday aged 93.
From 1961 to 1968, McNamara oversaw the escalation of US combat efforts in the highly divisive Vietnam war that became known as one of the biggest military blunders in US history — a conflict McNamara himself came to describe as "terribly wrong."
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McNamara is survived by his wife whom he married in 2004, and a son and two daughters from a previous marriage.
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