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Foreign Policy, September, 1995 by Hughes, Thomas L.
Once at a Senate hearing when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was caught telling a fib about a shipyard closing, Senator Margaret Chase Smith complained: "If I can't trust you on the little lies, sir, how will I ever believe you on the big ones?"
The question returns with the nation's latest bestseller, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. The book was intended to heal the wounds of Vietnam; instead, it has succeeded in reopening most of them.
Explaining McNamara is one thing. Experiencing McNamara is another. Together they constitute the McNamara phenomenon, something he himself obstinately refuses to grasp.
Explaining McNamara has been attempted by many--most impressively in a 1993 biography, Promise and Power, by Deborah Shapley,...
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