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Defiance Crescent News
March 8, 2018
In the early 1960s, Kennedy administration Defense Secretary Robert McNamara emphasized offensive missiles. He rejected the anti-ballistic missile as impractical and too easily overwhelmed. Later, President Lyndon Johnson forced McNamara to declare support for an ABM system. President RonaldÃâà...
Wicked Local
March 8, 2018
Holbrook may not have a coastline to attract beach-goers, but that's a positive once in a while. “Thank God we weren't Quincy,” said Holbrook Police Commander Robert McNamara as he described the damage caused by Friday's nor'easter that pummeled the state with massive rain and winds. “But theÃâà...
The Island Now
March 7, 2018
A tunnel under Long Island Sound might be a long way off, but the Village of Flower Hill has already made it clear that it has problems with the current plan. Of the suggestions for a bridge/tunnel combination to cross the Sound, a route from Oyster Bay to Westchester County appears to be the most feasible.
Buffalo News
March 6, 2018
... loving father of Walter (Kim) and Patrick (Stephanie) Moss; cherished grandfather of Mark and Sean; dearest brother of Patricia (late Jack) Pennel, Evelyn (late Eugene) McNamara, James Moss, Joanne (Thomas) Mattingly, Donald Moss, late Richard (Teri) Moss, and late Nora (late Robert) McNamara;Ãâà...
Patch.com
February 20, 2018
Carol J. McNamara-Gardner, 60, of Haines City, Florida, and formerly of Ellington, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 7, 2018. Born in Manchester, the daughter of Bethamy "Betty" (Bancroft) McNamara Heim of Vernon and the late Robert McNamara, she grew up and lived in Ellington beforeÃâà...
New York Times
November 28, 2017
On Nov. 29, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense, would leave his post to run the World Bank. “I do not know to this day whether I quit or was fired,” McNamara wrote decades later. “Maybe it was both.” It's actually quite clear: He was fired. But heÃâà...
InsideSources
December 31, 1999
Katharine Graham and her husband, Phillip, were prime culprits, active on the Washington social scene and counting John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara and many other power elites as personal friends. When Graham inherited the newspaper from her husband upon his death inÃâà...
The Denver Channel
December 31, 1999
The movie also shows Robert McNamara trying to stop publication. McNamara was the former secretary of defense who commissioned the study of the war that became "The Pentagon Papers." "Nixon will muster the full power of the presidency, and if there's a way to destroy you, by God, he'll find it," BruceÃâà...
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