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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. (From Wikipedia) More about Robert S. McNamara:
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2 additional books about Robert S. McNamara in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) The ascendancy of the Secretary of Defense : Robert S. McNamara, 1961-1963 (Washington, DC : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, [2013], 2013), by United States. Department of Defense. Historical Office (page images at HathiTrust)- Nomination of Robert S. McNamara : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session, on Jan. 17, 1961. (U.S. G.P.O., 1961), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Robert S. McNamara: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009, contrib.: The Gulf of Tonkin, the 1964 Incidents: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, With the Honorable Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, on February 20, 1968 (Washington: GPO, 1968), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by Robert S. McNamara in the extended shelves:- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009: Defense Secretary McNamara on S. Res. 191. Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on S. Res. 191, a resolution to authorize the Committee on Armed Services to study the use of military personnel and facilities to arouse the public to the menace of the cold war. September 6 and 7, 1961. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961), also by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009: A modern design for defense decision; a McNamara-Hitch-Enthoven anthology (Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1966), also by Alain C. Enthoven, Charles Johnston Hitch, Samuel A. Tucker, and Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009: National security management. A modern design for defense decision, a McNamara-Hitch-Enthoven Anthology (Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1966), also by Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, Charles Johnston Hitch, Alain C. Enthoven, Samuel A. Tucker, and Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009: Statement of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara before a joint session of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations on the fiscal year 1968-72 defense program and 1968 defense budget, January 23, 1967. ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off], 1967), also by United States Department of Defense, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense, and United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009: Statement of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara : before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the fiscal year 1969-73 defense program and 1969 defense budget. (U.S. G.P.O.], 1968), also by United States Department of Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009: Supplementary documents to February 20, 1968 (U.S. G.P.O., 1968), also by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
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