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Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈ m æ k n ə m ær ə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.
He was invited and attended the first Whiz Kids meeting that was designated for a time and place. Robert McNamara had arrived a day or so earlier and successfully lobbied to be group leader. George ultimately decided this path was not for him and returned home to Mahopac, NY and later retired as Trust Officer of the State Bank of Albany.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare. It was directed by Errol Morris and features an original score by Philip Glass.
McNamara was a Camelot cabinet kid; he played with Caroline and John-John, hung out at the pool with Robert F. Kennedy’s children at their Hickory Hill estate and sat with JFK for a screening of ...
Robert Anton Wilson: 1932–2007 Writer and co-author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy. He caught polio, aged four, and was treated by the method devised by Sister Elizabeth Kenny. In later years, he was affected with post-polio syndrome and was an advocate of the medical use of marijuana to treat his symptoms. [88]
Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself, in order to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s.
In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, the former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, admitted that there was no attack on 4 August. [10] In 1995, McNamara met with former North Vietnamese Army [11] General Võ Nguyên Giáp to ask what happened on 4 August 1964.
McNamara was born on August 22, 1915, in Spokane, Washington, and grew up in Alameda, California. [1] McNamara attended University of California, Berkeley, where she met Robert McNamara, whom she would marry on August 13, 1940. [2] Her husband's appointment by John F. Kennedy as U.S. Secretary of Defense led to their move to Washington, D.C.