Robert Strange McNamara Born in San Francisco in 1916, Robert Strange McNamara served as U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 and as president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. He taught business administration at Harvard in the early 1940s and became an air force systems expert during World War II. In 1946, McNamara joined the Ford Motor Company and instigated important model and marketing changes. In 1960 he became Ford's first nonfamily president. As secretary of defense during the escalation of the Vietnam War, McNamara was responsible for strengthening U.S. military capacity in both conventional and nuclear weapons.
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