Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful ...

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. McNamara, the brainy Pentagon chief who directed the escalation of the Vietnam War despite private doubts the war was winnable or worth fighting, died Monday at 93. McNamara ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara holds a news conference at the Pentagon in Nov. 1961. He died Monday at 93. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was ...

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara points to a map of Vietnam during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 1965. (Marion S Trikosko/PhotoQuest/Getty Images) McNamara’s 1996 memoir, In ...

And I'm Melissa Block. In his later years, Robert McNamara admitted, quote, "We were wrong, terribly wrong about the Vietnam War." McNamara was the secretary of Defense who directed much of the war.

<p>Robert S. McNamara was perhaps the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century. He helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the ...

NEW YORK – A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize. Philip and William Taubman's “McNamara at War” is this year's winner of the Barbara ...

On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful schisms were personal for me. I am the son of the late Robert S. McNamara, ...

Reticent, McNamara long resisted offers to give a detailed accounting of his role in Vietnam. His son, who had protested the war his father helped to run, once said it was not within McNamara’s “scope ...

He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers case. By Richard Goldstein In ...

He turned around Ford Motor Company and tried to help the world's poor as head of the World Bank. Yet, for many critics of the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara's legacy will be as the symbol of a failed ...