Topic: Robert McNamara
A weapons case against a Brooklyn man unraveled after a police officer testified the suspect's mother consented to a search while medical records...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The complete Pentagon Papers were made available to the public on Monday, exactly 40 years after leaked portions of the top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam were first published by the New York Times."There will probably ...
Stephen Trimble posts on Dew Line that the Royal Australian Air Force will retire its fleet of Fort Worth-built F-111 jets next week, which ought...
The career of Robert S. McNamara spanned academia, private enterprise, government, and humanitarian service. He was a professor at Harvard Business School in the early 1940s; an executive at Ford Motor Company for 15 years, becoming its president in 1960; the secretary ...
Plutonium is one of the most exotic substances known to man. From a chemical perspective, Plutonium is toxic, but no more than other metals. Plutonium is often alloyed with other metals to lessen its volatility and increase its stability. Plutonium is probably ...
Think, See, Feel Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . It is not because Julian Assange reminds us of Errol Morris. It is because Julian Assange reminds us of Robert S. McNamara. "The War Logs," is what the New York Times is calling its coverage ...
Eugene McCarthy has announced his intention to run against Lyndon Johnson on an anti-war platform. In nineteen sixty- eight Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy, Lyndon Johnson faced with the harsh reality that he had lost public support withdrew his name for consideration ...
Very informative and thought provoking.A facinating in-depth interview and bio of Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. With original photos, writings from major players to the common foot soldier, and interviews with Civil War experts ...
In a new book called Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores the history and psychology of being wrong, and the effect that blind stubbornness can have on personal and professional relationships. Schulz has written a guest post addressing an interesting paradox: The ...
As both a Harvard MBA and a Harvard Business School professor, he exemplified the cool, rational application of planning and analysis to business. McNamara proved the value of these methods in turning around Ford, and pioneered the trend to smaller and safer ...