Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93

President John F. Kennedy sits with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (r.) in the White House Oval Office in this Jan. 1961 file photo. (Cecil Stoughton/The White House via John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library/AP/FILE)

Robert McNamara, Vietnam War Architect, Dies At 93 -- McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — Robert S. McNamara, the Kennedy-Johnson-era defense secretary, who became a major architect of the Vietnam War and a key player in the Cuban missile crisis, died Monday at his Washington home at age 93.

McNamara was the Pentagon secretary under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and his relentless championing of American's strategy in Vietnam made him a favorite target of the era's anti-war protests.

Much later, McNamara expressed regret over the war he'd come to symbolize, telling CNN in 1996 that the strategy had been "terribly wrong."

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