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Robert S. McNamara returned to Harvard last week, nearly 30 years after his last visit, when he was mobbed by 800 jeering students who demanded to know why the United States was involved in a civil war in Vietnam...
...much heralded first 100 days. But he hampered that effort with two comments. First he revived one of the most controversial periods of his own past by saying he felt vindicated in his opposition to the Vietnam War, thanks to the penitent memoirs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Then Clinton strained to assert his own relevance to events in Washington. He was relevant, he insisted in a press conference, because the U.S. Constitution said so. His aides winced...
...have any problem with Robert McNamara exercising freedom of speech by coming to Harvard University...
...have a problem with Robert McNamara making millions of dollars on his book while, at the same time, countless numbers of men and women have died and suffered lifelong trauma because of his incompetent leadership while serving as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. As a 45-year-old non-veteran it irritates me that McNamara will become even richer by promoting his book while others still suffer with every tick of the clock...
...McNamara said in response to a question that hehas not decided where to donate the proceeds ofhis book, but that any decision will be private