Or, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it back then, “By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.” The website ...

An earlier version of this review incorrectly said that Robert McNamara left his job as secretary of defense when Richard M. Nixon was elected president. McNamara left the Pentagon in February ...

Thousands of words have been penned about Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, including by McNamara in his 1996 autobiography, ...

Craig McNamara, author of “Because Our Fathers Lied,” will talk about his memoir and his relationship with father Robert McNamara, who served as the secretary of defense during the 1960s.

Robert McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and loudly pushed for escalation in Vietnam before quietly realizing that the war was a lost cause ...