Robert McNamara would have been a difficult father under the best of circumstances — loving and sometimes doting, but distant, unable and unwilling to talk to his son about his work, especially ...

Robert Strange McNamara was born June 9, 1916, in San Francisco. A straight-A student, McNamara was also a disciplined athlete, an Eagle Scout who hiked and jogged.

Robert McNamara eventually turned against the war, and he left his job as secretary of Defense in 1967 for the World Bank at President Johnson’s behest. In later years, ...

McNamara has been single since 1981, when his first wife died of cancer. He was introduced to the 70-year-old Byfield four years ago by mutual friends, shortly after she was widowed.

Craig McNamara, a Sacramento, California, area farmer, is the son of Robert McNamara, who was defense secretary under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Robert McNamara, as secretary of defense, was one of the main orchestrators of the war and helped spread the lies about the successes of the divisive conflict, ...

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 ...

But McNamara had long since lost his air of cold-eyed stoicism. He was well known in Washington as someone who wept easily. When he left the Pentagon in 1968, he was so emotional that he could not ...

Robert McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and loudly pushed for escalation in Vietnam before quietly realizing that the war was a lost cause, died ...

The Robert McNamara Memorial Scholarship Fund, which supports one male and one female student-athlete from Curtis each year, is as strong as ever.