About seven years ago, I considered writing a biography of Robert McNamara. I was intrigued by his willingness to examine his own mistakes on Vietnam, and I was drawn to the tragedy of a brilliant and ...

The legacy of Robert Strange McNamara, the Ford Motor Co. whiz kid who led the Pentagon into the quagmire of Vietnam, holds a lesson for every bright young thing hired to solve problems with pure ...

Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting the Vietnam War, then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday. He was 93. McNamara ...

Robert McNamara, who led the Pentagon through many of the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and was blamed by many critics for the way that war was fought, has died, according to The Washington Post.

Driven, cerebral and pugnacious, Robert S. McNamara was the preeminent policymaker behind the massive buildup of American forces in Vietnam between 1964 and 1968. As Defense secretary for two ...

Robert McNamara, one of the primary architects of the Vietnam War, died Monday at age 93. Jim Lehrer talks to Deborah Shapely, the author of a McNamara biography, and Errol Morris, the documentarian ...

Robert McNamara was one of Camelot’s most inglorious bureaucrats, but he also counted as among its most enduring. His résumé, prior to entering the Kennedy administration in 1961, is known better than ...

Jacqueline Kennedy famously endured her husband John F. Kennedy’s multiple infidelities with everyone from a White House ...

Vietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert McNamara couldn’t make peace with. In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the middle ...