The legacy of Robert Strange McNamara, the Ford Motor Co. whiz kid who led the Pentagon into the quagmire of Vietnam, holds a lesson for every bright young thing hired to solve problems with pure ...

• McNamara was defense secretary from 1961 to 1968. • Served under two Presidents: Kennedy & Johnson. • He was the Architect of the Vietnam War. • He stayed in the defense post for seven years, longer ...

Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting the Vietnam War, then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday. He was 93. McNamara ...

Robert McNamara, one of the primary architects of the Vietnam War, died Monday at age 93. Jim Lehrer talks to Deborah Shapely, the author of a McNamara biography, and Errol Morris, the documentarian ...

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a disastrous conflict he later denounced as "terribly wrong," died Monday. He ...

Robert McNamara was one of Camelot’s most inglorious bureaucrats, but he also counted as among its most enduring. His résumé, prior to entering the Kennedy administration in 1961, is known better than ...

Vietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert McNamara couldn’t make peace with. In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the middle ...