Page "Robert McNamara" Paragraph 51

McNamara's memoir, In Retrospect, published in 1995, presented an account and analysis of the Vietnam War from his point of view.

According to his lengthy New York Times obituary, " e concluded well before leaving the Pentagon that the war was futile, but he did not share that insight with the public until late in life.

In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct of the war, confessing in a memoir that it was ' wrong, terribly wrong.

'" In return, he faced a " firestorm of scorn " at that time.