Jackie Kennedy had a close bond with John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. In a new book, McNamara At War: ...

He advised three defense secretaries, beginning with Robert McNamara, until the Nixon White House started tapping his phones. He retired as a three-star Air Force general. By Trip Gabriel With the ...

Abbie Rowe/PhotoQuest/Getty Ted Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, with her children Caroline and John Jr at President John F. Kennedy's funeral Craig McNamara was just 13 years old in November 1963, when ...

Robert Strange McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary from 1961-68, was hailed in his day as a technocratic genius, a man who could dazzlingly run anything (he'd just been named president of Ford Motor ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Robert McNamara, secretary of defense during the Vietnam War, whose later public expressions of regret for the role he played came too late for many veterans and critics, died Monday ...

About seven years ago, I considered writing a biography of Robert McNamara. I was intrigued by his willingness to examine his own mistakes on Vietnam, and I was drawn to the tragedy of a brilliant and ...

In his 1995 memoir, “In Retrospect,” former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wrote that the decisions he and others made about the war in Vietnam were wrong. Now, his son, Craig McNamara, has ...

WASHINGTON — Robert McNamara, the Kennedy-Johnson-era defense secretary, will be most remembered as a man instrumental in sending hundreds of thousands of Americans to fight in Vietnam, and who was ...

For anyone who lived through the 1960s -- and can remember it -- the name Robert McNamara was a big part of it. Secretary of defense during the Kennedy and most of the Johnson administrations, ...

In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military. By James Santel He advised three ...

Former Ford Motor Company president and US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara passed away in his sleep last night at his home. "His age just caught up with him," McNamara's wife, Diana, was quoted ...