-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was briefed at midnight.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff believed that the missiles would seriously alter the military balance, but Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara disagreed.

Robert McNamara supported the naval blockade as a strong but limited military action that left the US in control.

* 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.

Among notable civilian recipients are Harry L. Hopkins, Robert S. McNamara and Henry L. Stimson.

In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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.

* The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara ( 2003 )

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

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.

* 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

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

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.

ABC then aired a live debate, hosted by Nightlines Ted Koppel, featuring scientist Carl Sagan, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Elie Wiesel, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, General Brent Scowcroft and conservative writer William F. Buckley, Jr .. Sagan argued against nuclear proliferation, while Buckley promoted the concept of nuclear deterrence.

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

* Robert McNamara

* March 26 – U. S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency.

** Vietnam War: United States National Security Council members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor, agree to recommend a plan for a 2-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam, to President Lyndon B. Johnson.

** Robert McNamara, U. S. Secretary of Defense ( d. 2009 )

* November 29 – Vietnam War: U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank.

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.

The longest-serving Secretary of Defense is the late Robert McNamara, who served for a total of 2, 595 days.

Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.

The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term " approval voting.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

Jan Ingenhousz had described the irregular motion of coal dust particles on the surface of alcohol in 1785 — nevertheless the discovery is often credited to the botanist Robert Brown in 1827.

Robert M. Price described in his essay " H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos " two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 and in more detail in 1831 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in a talk at the Linnean Society of London.

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

The Graves ' disease was named after Irish doctor Robert James Graves, who described a case of goiter with exophthalmos in 1835.

As described by Paul Schrader, " Robert Aldrich's teasing direction carries noir to its sleaziest and most perversely erotic.

Jacques Tourneur had made over thirty Hollywood Bs ( a few now highly regarded, most completely forgotten ) before directing the A-level Out of the Past, described by scholar Robert Ottoson as " the ne plus ultra of forties film noir ".

A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described how Hackman, Hoffman and Robert Duvall were all struggling actors and close friends while living in New York City in the 1960s.

On an early trade card, Robert Stephenson & Co were described as " Engineers, Millwrights & Machinists, Brass & Iron Founders ".

During Rush's early period, Lee's voice was described as a " Robert Plant-esque wail.

Diomedes and Odysseus, when faced with his attack, described him as what Robert Fagles translated as an ' invincible headlong terror ', and a ' maniac '.

Robert S. Wistrich, a historian specializing in the study of anti-Semitism, described Hezbollah's ideology concerning Jews: " The anti-Semitism of Hezbollah leaders and spokesmen combines the image of seemingly invincible Jewish power ... and cunning with the contempt normally reserved for weak and cowardly enemies.

Douglas biographer Robert W. Johanssen described part of the speech:

Robert Rines also explained that the " horns " described in some sightings may be breathing tubes or nostrils that allow the animal to breathe without breaking the surface.

Other modern tests described by Bane include those by Williams ( which concluded that longbows could not penetrate maille, but in Bane's view did not use a realistic arrow tip ), Robert Hardy's tests ( which achieved broadly similar results to Bane ), and a Primitive Archer test which demonstrated that a longbow could penetrate a plate armour breastplate.

Its aim is to convince the Swiss public of the interest and feasibility of the Martian exploration with inhabited flights through the Mars direct concept such as described by Robert Zubrin.

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

For example, Robert Pinsky has argued that while dactyls are important in classical verse, English dactylic verse uses dactyls very irregularly and can be better described based on patterns of iambs and anapests, feet which he considers natural to the language.

It was described as a new genus and species by Robert Broom of the Transvaal Museum.

Physicist Robert Park states that parapsychology's reported positive results are problematic because most such findings are invariably at the margin of statistical significance and that might be explained by a number of confounding effects ; Park states that such marginal results are a typical symptom of pathological science as described by Irving Langmuir.

In 1836, a Member of Parliament, Robert Wallace, provided Hill with numerous books and documents, which Hill described as a " half hundred weight of material ".

An alternative approach was developed in 1929 by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken, in which electrons are described by mathematical functions delocalized over an entire molecule.