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Wednesday, July 08, 2009


Robert McNamara, this time from LBJ's nephew.
But now, he said, he had a question that was sure to stump me. Who was the most compassionate member of the cabinet? I guessed, rather unconfidently. Wrong. I guessed again, wrongly. He laughed and said: “You’ll never get it. It’s Bob McNamara. By far.” And it was a surprise, because we all thought of Bob McNamara as the no-nonsense numbers man from corporate America. The steel-rimmed glasses and the steel-trap mind were perfectly suited to an industrial mentality.
Maybe he got us into a really bad war, but he may have been the only one that kept us out of global thermonuclear war. He gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom for that.



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