And another one bites the dust ... :hmRobert McNamara, ex-defense secretary, dies
updated 46 minutes ago
(CNN) -- Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a key architect of the U.S. war in Vietnam under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, has died at age 93, according to his family.
McNamara was a member of Kennedy's inner circle during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war.
But he became a public lightning rod for his management of the war in Vietnam, overseeing the U.S. military commitment there as it grew from fewer than 1,000 advisers to more than half a million troops.
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Who is he?
Who is he?
Your Kidding right you have no idea who he is. This explains allot about some of your post then.
-------Or Laila's age? I doubt you would find many people under 30 who know who he is, unless they found fascination in detailed American war history.
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I'm 16
Or Laila's age? I doubt you would find many people under 30 who know who he is, unless they found fascination in detailed American war history.
Really and she is from the Middle East a region that Sec.McNamara policys effect allot.
Really and she is from the Middle East a region that Sec.McNamara policys effect allot.
And I don't by the under 30 crap either everyone know's who JFK and LBJ are so they all should know who Sec. McNamara is then.
Or Laila's age? I doubt you would find many people under 30 who know who he is, unless they found fascination in detailed American war history.
Really and she is from the Middle East a region that Sec.McNamara policys effect allot.
And I don't by the under 30 crap either everyone know's who JFK and LBJ are so they all should know who Sec. McNamara is then.
Who is he?
So what that she doesn't know. She came into the thread to learn who he is. Golly gee, why does that deserve your criticism? I can bet you many Americans don't know who he is, let alone someone who resides in London. :roll:
-----Do you fall into my latter category of being a American war history buff?
McNamara dies at 93 while in Vietnam the average age of the combat soldiers was?
How many Americans in this thread are knowledgeable about 60's British political figures?
What's your point? McNamara fought in WWII, what was the average age of a soldier in WWII?
How many Americans in this thread are knowledgeable about 60's British political figures?
I can what would hyou like to know I bet Laila couldn't name the PM in 1960.
Baroness Carrington has died this week, as has Major Martin Clemens who supplied intelligence to marines to stop a 30, 000 strong japanese force in the second world war as has Jerry Nielsen FitzGerald who was a south pole physican who when she discovered she had breast cancer treated a biopsy on herself .... i can go on, a soldier also died this week who had assisted the allied forces in bringing down the Nazis
I doubt many people are aware of who these people are
I can what would hyou like to know I bet Laila couldn't name the PM in 1960.
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