Prime Minister Harold Holt with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at The Pentagon in July 1966.

In addition to Veronica, the popular clique consists of three wealthy and beautiful ( but deeply unhappy ) girls with the same first name: the malicious leader, Heather Chandler ( Kim Walker ); the bookish bulimic Heather Duke ( Shannen Doherty ) and the weak-willed cheerleader Heather McNamara ( Lisanne Falk ).

Menzies meets with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon in June 1964

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

Robert McNamara, newly installed as the Secretary of Defense, forced a merger of the TFX with U. S. Navy plans for a new long-range " fleet defender " aircraft.

In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting with former Secretary of Defense McNamara, denied that Vietnamese gunboats had attacked American destroyers on August 4, while admitting to the attack on August 2.

Later McNamara, as Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, would often clash with LeMay.

As chief of staff, LeMay clashed repeatedly with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Maxwell Taylor.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, LeMay clashed again with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara, arguing that he should be allowed to bomb nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk later observed that during the Kennedy Presidency neither he nor Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara liked to " get into much discussion " in the NSC with " so many people sitting around the room " and the possibility of leaks so great.

McNamara watched on as Taylor played with Minh, giving “ broad hints of our interest in other subjects which we gave him during breaks in the game ”.

Dean Rusk with President Johnson and Robert McNamara

" McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.

" 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.

A 1968 Cabinet meeting with Dean Rusk, Lyndon B. Johnson | President Johnson and McNamara

McNamara wrote of his close personal friendship with Jackie Kennedy, and how she demanded that he stop the killing in Vietnam.

As McNamara grew more and more controversial after 1966 and his differences with the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff over Vietnam strategy became the subject of public speculation, frequent rumors surfaced that he would leave office.

Shapley concluded her book with these words: " For better and worse McNamara shaped much in today's world -- and imprisoned himself.

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 Errol Morris documentary consisting mostly of interviews with Robert McNamara and archival footage.

On January 5, 2006, McNamara and most living former Secretaries of Defense and Secretaries of State met briefly at the White House with President Bush to discuss the war.

Daughter Kathleen McNamara Spears is a forester with the World Bank.

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.

After his wife's death, McNamara dated Katharine Graham, with whom he had been friends since the early 1960s.

Grant, 91st Mayor of New York City ; Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City ; Raymond W. Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner ; Chang Myon, 2nd and 7th Prime Minister of South Korea ; and U. S Representatives from New York: John J. Boylan, John J. Delaney, John J. Fitzgerald, Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara, Bill Owens, Angelo D. Roncallo, Thomas Francis Smith, Andrew Lawrence Somers, and James J. Walsh

In August 1968 Robert S. McNamara, then President of the World Bank, formed the commission, asking former Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Bowles Pearson to head the commission.

The Commission consisted of a number of notable persons including Professor Joseph Rotblat, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize ; Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France ; Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank Group ; General George Butler, former Commander of the United States Strategic Air Command ; Doctor Maj Britt Theorin, then President of the International Peace Bureau ; Field Marshal Michael Carver, former Chief of the General Staff and Defence Staff ; Professor Robert O ' Neill, Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University and former director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies ; and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer and environmentalist.

Then Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hull North, Kevin McNamara, brought up the issue in the House of Commons, asking the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, whether she would refer the matter to the Security Commission, and asking the then Attorney-General and Conservative MP Michael Havers, whether he would ask the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate allegations published in Lobster, and prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty's Government.

According to former Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara the bay produces a commercial catch valued at A $ 25 million and that $ 4 million worth of this figure has become off-limits with the rezoning.

Thomas McNamara succeeds Horne as Minister of Labour.

Flannery is an advisor on climate change to outgoing South Australian Premier Mike Rann, and is a member of the Queensland Climate Change Council established by the Queensland Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation Andrew McNamara.

* 5: 30am – 10: 00am Ian McNamara, " Macca " Australia All Over ( Broadcast nationally )

* Ian McNamara, Australian radio presenter, who hosts the ABC Local Radio program " Australia All Over "

Painting by Harold Septimus Power | Septimus Power of Lieutenant F H McNamara and Captain D W Rutherford No. 67 Squdron, 5th Wing Royal Flying Corps, returning from aerial bombing near Gaza on 20 March 1917

* 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player

Noel John McNamara ( born 12 January 1938 ) is an Australian campaigner for victims of crime and outspoken critic of the Australian justice system.

He went to the six-day race at the Velodrome d ' Hiver in Paris, where he met an Australian participant, Reggie McNamara.

* John Leo McNamara ( 1922 – 2004 ), Australian bushman, poet, historian and author

Greg McNamara ( 1950 – 1997 ) was an Australian Boxer.

This was confirmed in 1953 by American astronomer D. Harold McNamara, who identified it as a Beta Cephei variable.

McNamara is the younger brother of Harold and George, who also played professionally.

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.

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

But most importantly, he helped the team out of the National League West basement for the first time in 1975, under the guidance of manager John McNamara, who took over the club at the start of the 1974 season.

He credits the team's manager at the time, John McNamara, who had previously been the Bronc's catcher-manager, for helping him through that difficult season.

" In a 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times, " Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liars ' Club ?," Joseph D. McNamara, then chief of police of San Jose, said " Not many people took defense attorney Alan M. Dershowitz seriously when he charged that Los Angeles cops are taught to lie at the birth of their careers at the Police Academy.

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.

McNamara placed a high emphasis on safety: the Lifeguard options package introduced the seat belt ( a novelty at the time ) and a dished steering wheel which help prevent the driver's being impaled on the steering column.

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.

McNamara at a cabinet meeting, 1967.

As World Bank President, McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices would get preferential access to resources.

McNamara has been portrayed or fictionalized in several films and in at least one popular video game.

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.

When working at Ford Motor Company, McNamara resided in Ann Arbor, Michigan rather than the usual auto executive domains of Grosse Pointe, Birmingham, and Bloomfield Hills.

McNamara was, at the end of his life, a life trustee on the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security, and an honorary trustee for the Brookings Institution.

McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington, D. C. early in the morning on July 6, 2009.

*( 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.