Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- San Francisco
- Educated at
- Harvard Business SchoolUniversity of California, BerkeleyPiedmont High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Defense Distinguished Service Medal🏆 Legion of Merit🏆 Medal of honor Dag Hammarskjold🏆 Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want
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Trending topics shown first"You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emotion. They say I am a power gabber. But knowledge is power, and I am giving them know…"
"I must say I don't object to its being called McNamara's War. I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it."
"I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all."
"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme."
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Timeline
1916
Born
Birth2009
Died
Death
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