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At war with Bob McNamara

A New History, a biography by Philip and William Taubman, will do little to change the perception of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
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, ...
Never one to shy away from disquieting subjects, documentarian Errol Morris has tackled topics as morbid as pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven), murder investigations (A Thin Blue Line), and execution ...
Robert McNamara was one of Camelot’s most inglorious bureaucrats, but he also counted as among its most enduring. His résumé, prior to entering the Kennedy administration in 1961, is known better than ...
Abbie Rowe/PhotoQuest/Getty Ted Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, with her children Caroline and John Jr at President John F. Kennedy's funeral Craig McNamara was just 13 years old in November 1963, when ...
No matter how good the intention, hosting fundraisers in honor of someone’s memory sometimes last a number of years before they end for one reason or another. But someone forgot to tell the family and ...
Craig McNamara remembers playing with the Kennedy children following President John F. Kennedy's assassination — and explains how he reckons with his own father's Vietnam War legacy Craig McNamara was ...