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...Retrospect is the title of the socalled "candid, poignant" book by the former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Sitting in his beautiful office near the White House in Washington D.C., the old man, once revered to as the "Best and the Brightest," now 78 years old, punches his right first into his left palm with strength and determination, as if all these silent years of retrospective meditation have finally brought him a point of self-revival. "We were wrong, terribly wrong," he declares. And suddenly, he feels the monkey is off his back...
...YEARS AMERICANS have been trying to learn the lessons of Vietnam while disagreeing on what they are. Given that endless debate, it was inevitable that Robert McNamara would conclude his controversial new book, In Retrospect, with a chapter on the lessons of the war. "I don't think the country has yet learned the lessons," he said in an interview with Time last week. "If it had, I wouldn't have written the book." McNamara points to the dangers of underestimating nationalism, of faulty evaluations, of asking the military to achieve more than weapons can deliver. The nation worries through...
...never felt any warmth in [Sheldon]," Holt says. "In retrospect there was a psychopathic aspect to his personality," he adds. "He was very adept at manipulating people and exploiting situations for his own benefit...
Frisbie said that, in retrospect, the trip wasa mistake...
Frisbie said that, in retrospect, the trip wasa mistake...