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    Robert Strange McNamara (/ˈmæknəmærə/; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United...
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  • medical standards. Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating workforce requirements of the...
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  • and new interviews with former-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts McNamara's life, as seen from his perspective as an eighty-seven-year-old...
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  • The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making...
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  • Robert Craig McNamara (born 1950) is an American farmer and activist. He is president and owner of Sierra Orchards, a farming operation that encompasses...
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  • Robert McNamara (1916–2009) was an American business executive and Secretary of Defense. Robert or Bob McNamara may also refer to: Bob McNamara (baseball)...
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    Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. McNamara was born on August 22, 1915, in Spokane, Washington, and grew up in Alameda, California. McNamara attended University...
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  • sophisticated electronic surveillance. Named the barrier system by Robert McNamara (United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968), it was one...
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    Unknown, as a member of "the program"'s governing board. He also voiced Robert McNamara in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. He appeared in four episodes...
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    Marguerite McNamara (June 18, 1928 – February 18, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actress and model from the United States. McNamara began...
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  • has power over them. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists described Robert McNamara, an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary...
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    World War II, Henry Ford II retained Robert McNamara as one of the "Whiz Kids" to help turn Ford around. McNamara's cost-cutting and cost-containment skills...
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    honored. McNamara was succeeded by US President Jimmy Carter's nominee, Alden W. Clausen, in 1980. Clausen replaced many members of McNamara's staff and...
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  • Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam is a 1997 book written by H. R. McMaster, at the time...
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    Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted that the supposed August 4 attack, for which Washington authorized retaliation, never happened. In 1995, McNamara met...
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    that the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara assign them responsibility for the project, but Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy retained effective control...
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  • "Five" features historical figures: John F. Kennedy (Jim Meskimen), Robert McNamara (Robert Picardo), Richard Nixon (Dave Mallow), and Fidel Castro (Marlon...
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    Front of South Vietnam. The mission was led by US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Maxwell D. Taylor, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
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    Katherine McNamara (born November 22, 1995) is an American actress. She portrayed Clary Fray on the 2016–2019 supernatural drama series Shadowhunters,...
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    In December 1965, Kennedy advised his friend, the Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, that he should counsel Johnson to declare a ceasefire in Vietnam,...
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    Berkeley. Berkeley ROTC alumni include former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Army Chief of Staff Frederick C. Weyand, sixteen other general officers...
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  • name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself in order to turn around the management of the United...
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    ability to innovate and stay current. Two of them, Arjay Miller and Robert McNamara, went on to serve as presidents of Ford themselves. A third member...
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  • achieve the 10 to 1 ratio needed in a guerilla war. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Alec Baldwin) is extremely confident that the additional pressure...
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    the then-head of American war planning, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The draft, a system of conscription that mainly drew from minorities...
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  • Mark Robert McNamara (June 8, 1959 – April 27, 2020) was an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the...
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    was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on 13 March 1962 as a preliminary submission for planning purposes...
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  • early 1960s, primarily by United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. In McNamara's formulation, there was the very real danger that a nation with...
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    Attorney General Robert Kennedy, national security adviser McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Deputy Secretary...
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    am astounded", he said. "The McNamaras have betrayed labor." The Socialist Party, however, refused to condemn the McNamara brothers, arguing that their...
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