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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 07 > Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara dies

Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara dies

‘We were wrong. We were terribly wrong,’ he would later say in 1995

By Bulletin wire reports / The Bulletin
July 7, 2009

WASHINGTON — Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam,....

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