Modern American politics has produced few figures more tragic than Robert Strange McNamara, strategic architect of the most disastrous and divisive military adventure in the nation's history, the ...

Robert Strange McNamara, 44. “In our business,” says Automaker Henry Ford II, “we are lucky if we make the right decision 51% of the time. What I have noticed about Bob McNamara is that he ...

During his six-year reign as Defense Secretary, Robert Strange McNamara has done more than enshrine the computer in government. More significantly, he has also cemented civilian control over the ...

Robert Strange McNamara's many critics charge, among other things, that he is stiff-necked, highhanded and deficient in humor. On the last count, at least, the Secretary of Defense recently ...

Robert Strange McNamara. Last week Bob McNamara, 44, was named president of Ford, the first non-Ford since Founder Henry in 1906 to occupy the presidency.