The Times: Reports on the death of Robert McNamara, Defence Secretary under JFK and LBJ the man that was seen as having taken the USA in to the Vietnam War. Mr McNamara was very intelligent, he was called a computer on legs in his day, but the failure of Vietnam defined him and the USA till the election of Ronald Reagan. As to how history will judge Mr McNamara that is still up in the air, if your on the right you see him as doing the right thing in Vietnam, if your on the left you seen him as having taken the USA in to a war on a lie. The end result was the USA lost the Vietnam War, and the USA does not like to lose, that simple and brutal folks, thus Robert McNamara is seen as a failure overall.
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