ROBERT S. McNAMARA

35. KENNEDY
36. JOHNSON
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FULL NAME:
Robert Strange McNamara

BORN:
June 9, 1916;
San Francisco, California

DIED:
July 6, 2009 (age 93);
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Harvard University (MBA)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican (until 1978)
Democratic (from 1978)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1961-1968:
U.S. Secretary of Defense
1968-1981:
President of the World Bank Group

PORTRAIT:

DoD photo by Oscar Porter, U.S. Army

RESOURCES: 

4/14/1962:  President John F. Kennedy (right, wearing sunglasses), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (left, wearing binoculars) watch from the deck of the command cruiser USS Northampton (CC-1) as participating ships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet pass in review, at sea off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. Congressman George P. Miller of California (far left, wearing glasses) and Congressman Leslie C. Arends of Illinois (far right, wearing gray cap) stand in the background (Robert Knudsen/ JFK Library)

BIOGRAPHIES:
Department of Defense
World Bank
Wikipedia

PAPERS:
JFK Library
Pentagon Papers (National Archives)
Vietnam Archive (Texas Tech University)

ORAL HISTORY:
Oral History (LBJ Library)
Oral History (Kennedy Library)
Fog of War Transcript

MEDIA COVERAGE:

02/07/1968: Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (left) and Secy. of Defense Robert McNamara (right) at a National Security Council meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House (LBJ Library/ Yoichi Okamoto)

OBITUARIES (7/6/2009):
Washington Post
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
The Guardian