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Robert McNamara - Wikipedia  Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916  July 6, 2009) was an American business executive ... McNamara remains the longest serving Secretary of Defense, having remained in office over seven years. ... After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former...
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Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93 - Obituary ...  Jul 6, 2009 ... Robert S. McNamara, the forceful and cerebral defense secretary who .... Kennedy had argued in his 1960 presidential campaign that the strategic ..... Robert Strange McNamara  Strange was his mother's maiden name...
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Robert S. McNamara - Government Official, Military ... - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Synopsis; Early Life; Secretary of Defense; Vietnam War; Criticism; Later Years ... Former U.S. secretary of state, author and businessman Robert Strange ... McNamara is best known as the secretary of defense in the 1960s...
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Who Was Robert McNamara? -- Secret History -- Sott.net  Jul 8, 2009 ... Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under Presidents ... You might say he was the Donald Rumsfeld of the 1960s, albeit without the ..... before JFK was killed, was a strange agenda that had not come up in the...
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Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Character) - IMDb  Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Character) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ... In Production; 2010s; 2000s; 1980s; 1970s; 1960s.
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The Kubrick Site: Brian Siano on 'Dr. Strangelove' - Visual Memory  Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb is a black ... At the end of the novel, the one bomb that does get dropped on Russia doesn't ... More contributions were made on-set by the actors, especially Peter Sellers. ... A narrator's voice tells us of the Soviet Union's mysterious military activities, quite...
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Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense - Geni  Jan 9, 2016 ... Genealogy for Robert Strange McNamara (1916 - 2009) family tree ... in 1960), having both report to the secretary of defense through the JCS.
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Clark Clifford - Spartacus Educational  Biography of Clark Clifford. ... Clifford replaced Robert McNamara as Secretary Defense in March 1968. McNamara had been urging the president to gradually...
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Alexander Haig - Wikipedia  Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924  February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and .... During July and early August 1974, Haig also played an instrumental role in finally persuading Nixon to resign. Haig presented...
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THEY CALL HIM CAP THE KNIFE - NYTimes.com  May 3, 1985 ... There he goes again. In his first four years as Defense Secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger resisted any economic accommodation with Moscow...
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J! Archive - Show #4264, aired 2003-02-27  Feb 27, 2003 ... He's the military man seen here giving the skinny on Iran-Contra in 1987 ... He's the dignified but defiant political prisoner seen here...
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Benjamin Spock, World's Pediatrician, Dies at 94  Mar 17, 1998 ... Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who gently coached anxious postwar ... National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, known as SANE, from 1962 to 1967. ... in the late 1970's he was also prominent in anti-nuclear demonstrations. ... Dr. Spock also came in for criticism from the women's movement.
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Wild Bill Donovan by Douglas C. Waller  Reviews, Discussion ...  Bob said: This was the guy who essentially started the forerunner of the CIA and most ... man who came to head the OSS during World War II (the precursor to the CIA). ... Mr. Waller portrays Gen Donovan as a week administrator/manager, but a ...... anywhere at the drop of a hat and littlerally ran into and through enemy fire.
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'By His Own Rules' by Bradley Graham - latimes  Aug 26, 2009 ... No presidency in history has generated anything like the volume of memoirs, instant ... the former U.S. secretary of Defense at his most complex -- and confounding. ... He's supplemented that experience with a wealth of on-the-record ... he'd been both the youngest and oldest secretary of Defense and had...
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Ike and the generals -- how Eisenhower stood up to his own military ...  Dec 16, 2012 ... When he left the White House in 1961, he puzzled his successor, John ... But it didn't really matter, he added quietly, because I was the boss. ... (partly by hinting he'd use nuclear weapons), Eisenhower never ... not increase defense spending during his time in office, despite the ..... Sent to Your Followers.
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Robert S. McNamara Biography (Business Personality/Presidential ...  Biography of Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1961-68. ... Robert Strange McNamara served as the United States Secretary of Defense ... After the war he went to work with the Ford Motor Company and rapidly rose in the ranks...
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PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1996-97  Vietnam in Retrospect: Could We Have Won? ... But perhaps none is more agonizing--and intriguing--than that of whether the United ... Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is known to have harbored ..... Nor, as Summers contends, did the US Army in the early 1960s enthusiastically embrace counterinsurgency;...
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Marshall: "Noblest Roman of Them All" - Richard M. Langworth  May 14, 2016 ... After resigning as Secretary of State (1947-49) owing to ill health, Marshall ... to be President Truman's Secretary of Defense (1950-51)the only ... on Marshall: The noblest Roman of them all (to General Ismay, which is...
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Truman Library - Oral Histories  Special Assistant and general counsel to the Secretary of Defense, 1947-49; ... A. Under Secretary of State, 1947-49; Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1950-51;...
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Melvin Laird - PBS  People & Events: Melvin Laird. Melvin Laird and President Nixon Melvin Laird served as secretary of defense under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973,...
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Dr. Strangelove - Wikipedia  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the USA. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, stars ... United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden)...