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... McNamara Fortunately , a detailed account has been published of how Secretary of Defense McNamara was precipitously removed from his position as the sec- ond most powerful member of the Johnson administration . The story comes from ...
... McNamara Fortunately , a detailed account has been published of how Secretary of Defense McNamara was precipitously removed from his position as the sec- ond most powerful member of the Johnson administration . The story comes from ...
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... McNamara's dissent : Mr. McNamara's disillusionment with the war has been reported previously , but the depth of his dissent from established policy is fully documented for the first time in the Pentagon study , which he commissioned on ...
... McNamara's dissent : Mr. McNamara's disillusionment with the war has been reported previously , but the depth of his dissent from established policy is fully documented for the first time in the Pentagon study , which he commissioned on ...
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... McNamara was removed from the group , Hoopes concludes , the members could once again enjoy complete unity and relatively undisturbed confidence in the soundness of their war policy . During the months following McNamara's nonvoluntary ...
... McNamara was removed from the group , Hoopes concludes , the members could once again enjoy complete unity and relatively undisturbed confidence in the soundness of their war policy . During the months following McNamara's nonvoluntary ...
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Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs | 14 |
The Wrong | 48 |
Copyright | |
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