Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was briefed at midnight.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Heather Graham, then 17, was cast as Heather McNamara, but her mother wouldn't allow her to do the film so Lisanne Falk was given the role instead.

Robert McNamara was particularly opposed to the bomber force and repeatedly stated he felt that the combination of SLBMs and ICBMs would render them useless.

These changes can be attributed to Robert McNamara who was appointed to the presidency in 1968 by Lyndon B. Johnson.

However, he was far from alone, as the Broncs ' rosters included Rick Monday, manager John McNamara, Vearl (" Snag ") Moore, Thorton (" Kip ") Kipper, Antonio Perez, Ron Koepper, Delmer Owen, Dick Green, Bud Swan, Bert Campaneris, John Israel, Dave Duncan, Al Heist, and as a player, later coach-manager Robert (" Gabby ") Williams.

This was not fully understood until the 1960s when the strategy of mutually assured destruction was first fully described, largely by United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

According to McNamara, the arms race was in part an attempt to make sure that no nation gained first strike capability.

Messages recorded that day indicate that neither President Johnson nor McNamara was certain of an attack.

But he did not immediately call Johnson to tell him that the whole premise of his decision at lunch to approve McNamara ’ s recommendation for retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam was now highly questionable.

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.

As a Lieutenant Colonel who served under LeMay, Robert McNamara was in charge of evaluating the effectiveness of American bombing missions.

Owing to his unrelenting opposition to the Johnson administration's Vietnam policy and what was widely perceived as his hostility to Secretary McNamara, LeMay was essentially forced into retirement in February 1965 and seemed headed for a political career.

Minh expressed an interest in meeting McNamara and Taylor, so a game of doubles tennis was organized.

Ellsberg served in the Pentagon from August 1964 under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ( and, in fact, was on duty on the evening of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, reporting the incident to McNamara ).

He then was appointed Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, continuing in that service until the end of 1965.

Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States 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.

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.

Robert McNamara was born in San Francisco, California.

In January 1961 McNamara, the new secretary of defense, and Roswell Gilpatric, a new deputy secretary who strongly believed in the existence of a missile gap, personally examined photographs taken by Corona satellites.

Heather McNamara calls a popular radio show one night while Veronica and Heather Duke are listening and talks of depressing aspects in her life ; the next day, Heather Duke tells the entire school about Heather McNamara's radio call ; McNamara attempts to take her life by overdosing on pills in the girls ' bathroom but is saved by Veronica.

* Out of Jimmy's Head ( 2007 — 2008 ; co-production with Brookwell McNamara Entertainment )

After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett ; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara.

OSD sent the DPMs to the services and the JCS for comment ; in making decisions, McNamara included in the DPM a statement of alternative approaches, force levels, and other factors.

Toward the end of his term McNamara also opposed an anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) system proposed for installation in the U. S. in defense against Soviet missiles, arguing the $ 40 billion " in itself is not the problem ; the penetrability of the proposed shield is the problem.

McNamara left office on February 29, 1968 ; for his efforts, the President awarded him both the Medal of Freedom and the Distinguished Service Medal.

In 1982 McNamara joined several other former national security officials in urging that the United States pledge not to use nuclear weapons first in Europe in the event of hostilities ; subsequently he proposed the elimination of nuclear weapons as an element of NATO's defense posture.

*( 1981 ) The McNamara years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Robert S. McNamara, 1968-1981 ; with forewords by Helmut Schmidt and Léopold Senghor.

Although not intimately involved in the development of strategic nuclear policy as McNamara had been, Laird subscribed to the Nixon administration's program of " Strategic Sufficiency "-that the United States should have the capability to deter nuclear attacks against its home territory and that of its allies by convincing a potential aggressor that he would suffer an unacceptable level of retaliatory damage ; it should also have enough nuclear forces to eliminate possible coercion of its allies.

Most of the names in Clare are derived from septs of the Dalcassian race of Gaels ; some of the most common examples are O ' Brien, O ' Dea, McMahon, McNamara, McGarry, Moloney, O ' Grady, Hogan, Considine and Lynch.

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Neither President Lyndon Johnson nor Secretary of State Dean Rusk knew about the study until its publication ; they believed McNamara might have planned to give the work to his friend Robert F. Kennedy, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

The feature of having two riders per kart was praised by Justin Leeper and Andy McNamara of Game Informer ; McNamara stated: " Giving the player control of two different characters is pretty cool in single-player, but add a friend on the back of your kart in multiplayer and it opens the game up like never before.

In 1966, John McNaughton, Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, proposed the destruction of the Red River Valley dams and dikes in order to flood rice paddies, disrupt the North Vietnamese food supply, and leverage Hanoi during negotiations ; then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, however, rejected the idea.

Both frigates were reduced to a wreck, and so parted ; the Magicienne to get to Jamaica a fortnight later ; the Sybille to be captured on 22 February 1783 by under Thomas McNamara Russell.

Domhoff credited Lovett, Harvey Bundy and John McCloy with having a close working relationship ; and credited John F. Kennedy as accepting Lovett's advice to appoint Dean Rusk as Secretary of State, Robert McNamara as Defense Secretary, and C. Douglas Dillon for the Treasury.

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.

Mick Farren, Steve Hanson, Johnny Nostalgia, Lee Jackson, Mike McNamara, Jens Unosson, Craig Morrison, SM2B, Ron Sanchez, J. Bennett, Mason Jones, Alan Cummings, George Parsons, Jeff Penczak, Robby Lewry, Nick Warburton, Adrian Shaw, Dan Cairns, Mick Capewell, Gary Burns, Richard Gould, Uli Twelker, Timothy Renner, David Wilcox, John Cavenagh, Ben Vendetta, Faren Miller, Nick Bensen, Eric Arn, Jose Marmeleirala, Richard Morton Jack, Tract Sienkiewicz, Barry St. Vitus, Simon Lewis, Mats Gustafsson, Anthony Sanders, Mark Dagley and Dickie Straker.

* Momma was drawn by Jeff Miller & Bill Hinds ( Tank McNamara ): Marylou introduces Momma to Tank as her new boyfriend.