Word: mcnamara
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...When McNamara responded the veteran should readthe book to find that out, he cried, "Sir!"McNamara replied, "Wait a minute! Shut...
...What we were trying to do was use militarypressure to move the North Vietnamese tonegotiations," he continued. Some in theadministration, he said, felt losing Vietnam wouldmean a catastrophe for the western world, perhapsWorld War III. McNamara said he now believes theywere wrong...
...anonymous voice broke through McNamara's,however, shouting, "You should have dropped thebomb, Bobby! You know that...You should haveresigned. You know that as well as I do." The manwas silent after two outbursts...
...second emotional moment came when a Vietnamwidow described a meeting in 1968 which McNamaraand other high-ranking official attended. They metfor less than an hour about a pilot shot down overa Vietnam island, she said, and McNamara laterwrote in a secret document that there should be norescue...
...McNamara said he did not recall the meeting andasked to see the document. The woman handed it tohim. Her son, who was also in the audience, thengave McNamara a letter...