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, ...

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WINTERS, Calif. — Craig McNamara had come prepared to talk about heavy things. He was, after all, promoting a new memoir about his father, Robert McNamara, the polarizing secretary of Defense under ...

WASHINGTON - Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a disastrous conflict he later denounced as "terribly wrong," died Monday. He ...

Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a disastrous conflict he later denounced as "terribly wrong," died Monday. He was 93.