Robert McNamara Dies | Robert McNamara Death
Robert McNamara dies - The 93-year-old former secretary of defense, and the primary architect of USA’s involvement in Vietnam passed away today at his home in Northwest Washington. Cause of death has not been made public.
According to the Washington Post:
“McNamara was secretary of defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. In that capacity he directed a U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia during the critical early years of a Vietnamese conflict that escalated into one of the most divisive and bitter wars in U.S. history. When the war was over, 58,000 Americans were dead and the national social fabric had been torn asunder.”
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