Volume 42, Number 9 · May 25, 1995

The Abuse of McNamara

By Theodore H. Draper

The vitriolic and protracted campaign in The New York Times against former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and his new book, In Retrospect, is largely based on a false premise, one that can be best demonstrated by The New York Times of over twenty years ago.



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