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 ...
At Time Magazine’s gala celebration of its 75th anniversary on March 3, 1998. A few guests were asked to toast someone they especially admired. John F. Kennedy Jr.—the president’s son who died a year ...
He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers case. By Richard Goldstein In ...
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 ...
The Vietnam War officially ended in 1975. But for millions of Americans who served or had loved ones fighting in that bloody mess, it rages on. One of those Americans is Craig McNamara. Does that name ...
The Vietnam War shaped a generation. It brought people together for protests. It also tore families apart — in part because of deaths and injuries in the war, and in part because of disagreements on ...
No matter how good the intention, hosting fundraisers in honor of someone’s memory sometimes last a number of years before they end for one reason or another. But someone forgot to tell the family and ...
Even before Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon in early 1968, this man of absolute certainties about almost everything had begun to have nagging doubts about the Vietnam War, about what was widely ...
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has died at age 93. During his tenure under Presidents John. F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was notable for his role in the escalation of the Vietnam War ...
ROBERT AMBROSE McNAMARA 1924-2011 Resident of Fremont “I rejoice when I hear them say, “Let us go to the House of the Lord”. Robert passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on March 28, 2011. He is ...