Robert McNamara 1916-2009

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Robert McNamara, centre, with US Army chief-of-staff General Maxwell Taylor, left, at the White House with President Kennedy. McNamara was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis, but he was mostly known as one of the architects of the Vietnam war. During his time as Secretary of Defense, the troop numbers involved in the conflict rose from 500 to over half a million.

One of the main architects of the Vietnam war died at his home in Washington today

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