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...Frank L. McNamara '69, a former Navy officer and Pentagon intelligence officer, will be formally nominated in the next few days, the Boston Globe reported Thursday. He faces Senate confirmation before assuming the office...
After graduation from the University of Virginia Law School in 1976, McNamara has worked as a lawyer for the Boston Gas Company and became a founding partner of a firm after his 1982 run for Congress...
...John Adams to John F. Kennedy, came from Harvard, bringing with them some potent Cambridge-bred notions and cronies. Franklin D. Roosevelt had his New Deal, whose underlying Keynesianism, says Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, was imported from Cambridge. J.F.K. had his best and brightest, including Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. Harvard's Henry Kissinger surely was the most powerful figure in the Nixon and Ford Administrations...
When Robert McNamara, then Secretary of State, came to a visit late in 1966, he was blockaded by a mass of 2800 protesters and aggressively questioned by Stephen, among others. "How many South Vietnamese citizens did you kill this week, and why don't you release the figures?" Steven shouted. McNamara quietly replied that he did not know the number, and was greeted by more heckling...
Though Stephen himself says he has mellowed since the turbulent 1960s, he still terms his aggressive confrontation with McNamara a "moral decision...