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By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe death of 93-year-old Robert McNamara – 34 years after the fall of Saigon – reminded me of my lone encounter with the defense secretary who embodied the Vietnam War during my college years. ...
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By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyHope everyone enjoyed their Independence Day celebrations. My family and I enjoyed the fireworks from the roof of our Brooklyn apartment and I came THIS close to getting a three-day weekend if it were not for a certain pesky Alaskan governor, who needed to make a dramatic and confounding announcement. It's good to be back, though, and here, as always, are your Politics Dailies: If you can't wait until tonight to see what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have to say about Sarah Palin's announcement, check out the work by Dennis DiClaudio and Mary Phillips-Sandy over on Comedy Central's ...
Robert S. McNamara Is Dead at 93, His War Finally Over
By David Wood - Politics DailyIn his later years he was an object of curiosity and, I thought, sympathy. Out for his morning constitutional down Washington's Connecticut Avenue, this lanky scarecrow of a man would stride briskly and purposefully, his long arms pumping, his eyes cast firmly down on the sidewalk in front of him. He had already acknowledged that his pursuit of the war in Vietnam was "wrong, terribly wrong.'' Yet if he was tormented by the 58,000 young Americans who died in that war, he never showed it. Some inner muse kept a trace of a smile fixed on his gaunt face. ...
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