Author Jack London wrote Call of the Wild while living on Blair Avenue in a house that is still there today, but as this predated the incorporation, technically he was never a citizen of Piedmont, and John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara grew up in Piedmont, where his family lived on Annerley Road.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243, 000 more men by the end of 1966.

To finance more loans, McNamara told bank treasurer Eugene Rotberg to seek out new sources of capital outside of the northern banks that had been the primary sources of bank funding.

Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later.

Although McNamara had a relatively short stay in the hospital, his wife's case was more serious and it was concern over meeting her medical bills that led to his decision to not return to Harvard but to enter private industry as a consultant at Ford Motor Company.

In September 2004, McNamara wed Diana Masieri Byfield, an Italian-born widow who had lived in the United States for more than 40 years.

Many regarded the new secretary as more of a hawk on Vietnam than McNamara, and thought his selection might presage an escalation of the U. S. military effort there.

After picking up more beer at the local grocery store, they head to a park where a group of hippies is gathering after a protest at the house of Gene McNamara.

Tom McNamara of IGN enjoyed playing in the film noir setting and believed that it adds dramatic depth to Max and Mona's story, " somehow what's going on more important and interesting.

These boundaries are nothing more than axial lines which are a feature that people are biased towards when relating to space ; for example one axial line determinant is gravity ( McNamara & Shelton, 2001 ; Kim & Penn, 2004 ).

The McNamara Alumni Center, also known as the Gateway Building, at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota is one of the more architecturally-unique buildings in the area.

And I cannot help but wonder how many more lives, and how much more money, will be wasted before another Robert McNamara admits what is plain for all to see: the war on drugs is a failure.

McNamara, an energetic and experienced Army logistician who had served as Quartermaster General, rapidly pulled together a small staff and set up operations in the worn Munitions Building in Washington, D. C. A short time later, he moved his staff into more suitable facilities at Cameron Station in Alexandria, Virginia.

The forum hosted more than 40 international conventions ( participants included Juan Antonio Samaranch, Mikhail Gorbachev, José Saramago, Felipe González, Rigoberta Menchú, Angelina Jolie, Robert McNamara, Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, Lionel Jospin, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Romano Prodi and Salman Rushdie, among others ), performances, markets, games, 423 concerts, 57 street performances, 44 theatre, dance and cabaret companies, 20 circus acts and over 20 exhibitions.

As McNamara explains, it is a process of examining the experiences of his long and controversial period as the United States Secretary of Defense, as well as other periods of his personal and public life.

The Cyclones won the McNamara division title only to lose to the Tri-City Valley Cats in controversial fashion.

In a controversial personal and political decision, in 1968 — during the Vietnam War — U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announced the shutting-down of the Springfield Armory.

Following the completion of the boycott season in Tolka, the Kilcoynes sold the football club to Dublin businessman, John McNamara, who put forward a controversial proposal to move in with Rivals Bohemians at Dalymount Park.

Following the completion of the boycott season in Tolka, the Kilcoynes sold the football club to Dublin businessman John McNamara, who put forward a controversial proposal to move in with Bohemians at Dalymount Park.

Clausen replaced McNamara after being nominated by US President Jimmy Carter.

While the plans were well received by all of the teams, Holden chief Simon McNamara warned potential new manufacturers to stay out of the championship just hours after the plans were released, claiming that they would " gain nothing " from entering the series,

McNamara later testified that he had read the message after his return to the Pentagon that afternoon.

A taped conversation of a meeting several weeks after passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was released in 2001, revealing that McNamara expressed doubts to President Johnson that the attack had even occurred.

Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the " Whiz Kids " who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense.

Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford.

Then the forces leveled off at around 2, 700, 000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3, 550, 000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.

" Under pressure to proceed with the ABM program after it became clear that the Soviets had begun a similar project, McNamara finally agreed to a " light " system which he believed could protect against the far smaller number of Chinese missiles.

Shortly after McNamara departed the Pentagon, he published " The Essence of Security ", discussing various aspects of his tenure and position on basic national security issues.

In the Errol Morris documentary, McNamara reports that both he and his wife were stricken with polio shortly after the end of World War II.

Fifteen years after Truman's order, on July 26, 1963, Robert S. McNamara issued Directive 5120. 36 obligating military commanders to employ their financial resources against facilities used by soldiers or their families that discriminated based upon sex or race.

According to Daniel Ellsberg, who was at one time a subordinate to Lansdale, Lansdale claimed that he was fired by President Kennedy's Defense Secretary Robert McNamara after he declined Kennedy's offer to play a role in the overthrow of the Diem regime.

Among the many notable past occupants are the following: Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Anna Chennault, Bob and Elizabeth Dole ( Watergate South ), Plácido Domingo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( Watergate South ), Alan Greenspan, Monica Lewinsky ( she stayed briefly at her mother's apartment in the complex ), Senator Russell Long, Clare Boothe Luce ( after 1983 ), Robert McNamara, John and Martha Mitchell, Paul O ' Neill, Condoleezza Rice, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maurice Stans, Ben Stein, Herbert Stein, John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor ( during their marriage ), Caspar Weinberger, Charles Z. Wick, and Rose Mary Woods.

When McNamara asks if Hart cooperated with the Germans after he was captured, Hart denies it.

McNamara knows this to be a lie, since he knows Hart was held for three days after seeing only a Level 1 interrogator.

Disgusted, McNamara says that Hart knows nothing about duty, a reference to how Hart gave in to a Level 1 interrogator after three days, whereas McNamara was tortured for a month.

Designed by James H. McNamara in 1875, the house was the home of the St. Louis Parks and Recreation Commissioner from 1942 ; after being damaged by fire in 1966, it was repaired and occupied by the City Beautification Commission in 1967.

In 1980, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, after it was rumored that he was a candidate to succeed Robert McNamara as president of the World Bank.

He was unanimously supported by the bank's board of executive directors to a second five-year term in 2000, becoming the third person to serve two terms in the position after Eugene R. Black and Robert McNamara.

Program supervisor Sean McNamara said that he expected at most eighty volunteers in the Los Angeles area, but was forced to close the phone lines after 10, 000 people called in.

Only three years after his defection, Károlyi was back at the 1984 Olympics as the individual coach of all-around champion Mary Lou Retton and uneven bars gold medalist Julianne McNamara.

Danny McNamara and Martin had become friends after Coldplay had supported Embrace in 2000 in Blackpool.