Word: kennedyism
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"To me, the tragic flaw was that Robert McNamara was someone who was incapable of imagining that he could be wrong. The mistakes in Vietnam were mistakes of arrogance and addiction to power," said Stephen M. Walt, a Kennedy School professor who added that he was "certainly no admirer of...
Nevertheless, others regard McNamara's legacy more favorably. Jack P. Ruina, an MIT professor who worked under McNamara as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he was a "great admirer of [McNamara's]" even though he was "a little bit like a machine." And Graham T. Allison, a...
Joseph S. Nye, another illustrious former Kennedy School dean who met McNamara in 1987 while working on an oral history project about the Cuban Missile Crisis, said that he had once thought of McNamara as "one-dimensional" and not to be admired. But later, through personal interactions, Nye said he...
In an 1996 interview at Berkeley, McNamara said that he "wanted nothing more in the world than to go back to Harvard at the end of the war." But in 1966, McNamara was greeted at Harvard by hundreds of virulent anti-war student protesters when he came to deliver the...
Anthony R. Britt '10, who worked with Spoering in his time on the House Committee and Undergraduate Council, said that Spoering is “always smiling and very approachable.” Britt recalled that one time, he e-mailed Spoering the night before cross-registration paperwork was due...