Robert McNamara Dead at 93

Former secretary of defense, whose reputation includes the primary architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, Robert Strange McNamara died early this morning at age 93.

[via]Robert McNamara was secretary of defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. In that capacity he directed a U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia during the critical early years of a Vietnamese conflict that escalated into one of the most divisive and bitter wars in U.S. history.

When the war was over, 58,000 Americans were dead and the national social fabric had been torn asunder.

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