Robert S. McNamara | 1916 - 2009
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Robert S. McNamara( Bob Schutz / Associated Press )
McNamara points out action in the Gulf of Tonkin against U.S. destroyers in a post-midnight media briefing on Aug. 4, 1964, at the Pentagon. The episode spurred a near-unanimous Congressional vote to authorize President Johnson to deploy ground troops. Years later, historians still spar over whether the attacks were as serious as they were initially reported -- and whether they justified a major escalation of the war.
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