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"I think one of the most interesting things about Robert McNamara was that he was someone who was a larger-than-life figure in the early '60s, who then continued to learn and grow and change in all kinds of ways," said David T. Ellwood '75, dean of the Kennedy...
McNamara, who endowed a Kennedy School lecture series entitled The Robert McNamara Lecture on War and Peace, died on Monday at age 93 at his home in Washington. He served as defense secretary for Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which half...
By 1966, he was privately urging Johnson to establish troop level ceilings and to halt the bombings, which McNamara had come to believe were futile. In 1967, he pressed Johnson more firmly to consider a peace settlement. Johnson, believing that McNamara was aiding a presidential bid by Robert F. Kennedy...
"When [McNamara] left, he was already a very sick, disheartened, and dispirited person, so much so that at his last news conference...he broke down in tears, in front of the President and the cameras," said Marvin L. Kalb, a Kennedy School professor who, as a former journalist, knew McNamara...
"In the Kennedy years, he was almost perfect in his hard work and insightfulness. He was very, very sharp...but he lacked that human touch, he didn't acknowledge things that didn't come out of numerical displays," said Paul M. Doty, a member of President Kennedy's Science Advisory...