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So, Robert McNamara passed away at 93, in his home in Washington - DC.
With him goes the history of 7 critical years in the development of today's world. His legacy, right or wong, is immense. No other SoD has been so infuentilal, athough some has been more viisionary (Schlesinger and Rumsfeld in his second tenure come to mind). Pity that the numerous interviews he was asked in recent years never actually touched the sensitive questions, and when they did, was served with some mix of "zeitgeist" re-vision of the past (see the masterpiece "The fog of war"). Requiescat.
With him goes the history of 7 critical years in the development of today's world. His legacy, right or wong, is immense. No other SoD has been so infuentilal, athough some has been more viisionary (Schlesinger and Rumsfeld in his second tenure come to mind). Pity that the numerous interviews he was asked in recent years never actually touched the sensitive questions, and when they did, was served with some mix of "zeitgeist" re-vision of the past (see the masterpiece "The fog of war"). Requiescat.