The agreement reflects growing apprehension on the part of both leaders that America’s commitment to NATO is no longer as ...

The Robert McNamara Memorial Scholarship Fund, which supports one male and one female student-athlete from Curtis each year, is as strong as ever.

AP Photo/Cecil Stoughton, White House via John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, BostonPresident Kennedy sits with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, right, in the White House Oval Office in ...

President John Kennedy, right, walks with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara towards a pier on Cape Cod to board the Kennedy family boat for an outing in this file photo taken July 8, 1961, at ...

Robert McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and loudly pushed for escalation in Vietnam before quietly realizing that the war was a lost cause, died ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Robert McNamara, chief architect of the Vietnam War, has died at age ...

But McNamara had long since lost his air of cold-eyed stoicism. He was well known in Washington as someone who wept easily. When he left the Pentagon in 1968, he was so emotional that he could not ...

Photograph by Chris Buck/CORBIS OUTLINEMinutes after the death this morning of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, at 93, nytimes.com posted a 4,500-word obituary the paper had wisely ...

WASHINGTON -- Robert McNamara had excelled at everything: Eagle Scout, young Harvard professor, corporate "whiz kid" at Ford. As one of the longest-serving and most influential Defense secretaries ...