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Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916)

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Robert McNamara

American businessman and government official (1916–2009)

Robert Strange McNamara was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving…
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United States Secretary of Defense

Head of the US Department of Defense

The United States secretary of defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet. The secretary of defense's position of command and authority over the…
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