Decision Quote by Jay Roach

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American…

— Samantha Power

“By 1967 McNamara was pacing about his expansive Pentagon office, staring at the large framed photograph of Defense Secretary Forrestal (who had committed suicide),…

— James T. Patterson

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years…

— Walter Cronkite

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

— Bob Schieffer

Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the application of military power. -Robert McNamara

— Call Of Duty

“McNamara’s whiz kids were smart. But they had almost no experience in either war or weaponry, and were not necessarily an able substitute for…

— C.J. Chivers

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to…

— Thomas Sowell

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought…

— Nick Turse

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified…

— Anonymous

There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And…

— Mark Shields

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they…

— Henry A. Kissinger