Robert S. McNamara announces that he will resign as Secretary of Defense and will become president of the World Bank.
Formerly the president of Ford Motor Company, McNamara had served as Secretary of Defense under two presidents, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1961 until 1968. He initially supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and encouraged President Johnson to escalate in 1964, but he later began privately to question U.S. policy and eventually advocated a negotiated settlement to the war. In the summer of 1967, he helped draft the San Antonio formula, a peace proposal offering to end the U.S. bombing of the north and asking North Vietnam to join in productive discussions. The North Vietnamese rejected the proposal in October.
Early in November, McNamara submitted a memorandum to Johnson recommending that the United States freeze its troop levels, cease the bombing of the north, and turn over responsibility for fighting the ground war to the South Vietnamese. Johnson rejected these recommendations outright. McNamara subsequently resigned; Johnson adviser Clark Clifford succeeded him.
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Rest in hell, bruh.
burn in Hell, demonic monster.
Thank you for your service . . . to Raytheon . . . Mr. “The best and the brightest”.
Good ‘ol Tank.
“Tanks” for nuttin…fag.
Brylcreem boy.
He and another monster Curtis ‘Bombs Away’ LeMay planning another firebombing of a vanquished Japanese city and McNamara opined that they were lucky the U S was going to win the war lest they be hung for war crimes. At least he understood he was doing Satan’s work.
He features prominently in Diary of an Economic Hitman. Great book and well worth the read.
His middle name was quite fitting – Robert Strange McNamara.
Ron Paul’s middle name is Ernest. Also fitting.
McNamara was a truly evil man. If there was any justice in the world he would have suffered in misery for decades for his crimes against his country and the people of the world. Of course, there is no justice, except what brave men decide to dispense themselves….
If you want to know just how evil this bastard was, look up “McNamara’s idiots”……
As thoroughly despicable a skin bag as Dick Cheney, John McStain and a couple hundred other neo-con psychopaths’…burn bitches.