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1. 347 relations: A&E (TV network), Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Accounting, Airlift, Airstrike, Alain Enthoven, Alaska, Alden W. Clausen, Alexandria, Virginia, American Philosophical Society, American University, American University of Nigeria, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Anti-ballistic missile, Arlington County, Virginia, Arlington National Cemetery, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Assistant professor, Associated Press, Attack on Camp Holloway, Augusto Pinochet, Đồng Hới, Bachelor of Arts, Battle of Ap Bac, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Beef bourguignon, Biological agent, Birmingham, Michigan, Blockade, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Boeing, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Boston, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Mauritius, Brookings Institution, Buddhist crisis, C-SPAN, California, California Institute of Technology, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Captain (United States O-3), Chagos Archipelago, Chagossians, Charles J. Hitch, Chemical weapon, Child Welfare League of America, ... Expand index (297 more) » « Shrink index

2. Civilian recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (United States)
3. Kennedy administration cabinet members
4. Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members
5. Presidents of the World Bank Group
6. United States Secretaries of Defense
7. Urban Institute people

A&E (TV network)

A&E is an American basic cable network and the flagship television property of A&E Networks.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films.

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Accounting

Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations.

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Airlift

An airlift is the organized delivery of supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft.

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Airstrike

An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft.

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Alain Enthoven

Alain C. Enthoven (born September 10, 1930) is an American economist.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alden W. Clausen

Alden Winship "Tom" Clausen, World Bank, Accessed November 27, 2010. Robert McNamara and Alden W. Clausen are presidents of the World Bank Group.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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American University

American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. American University was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who sought to create an institution that would promote public service, internationalism, and pragmatic idealism.

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American University of Nigeria

American University of Nigeria The American University of Nigeria (AUN) is a private university in Yola the capital of Adamawa, Nigeria.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a college town and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.

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Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group

The IMF and World Bank meet each autumn in what is officially known as the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group and each spring in the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

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Anti-ballistic missile

An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (missile defense).

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Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery is one of two cemeteries in the United States National Cemetery System that are maintained by the United States Army.

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Army of the Republic of Vietnam

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN;; Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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Assistant professor

Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Attack on Camp Holloway

The attack on Camp Holloway occurred during the early hours of February 7, 1965, in the early stages of the Vietnam War.

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Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.

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Đồng Hới

Đồng Hới is the capital city of Quảng Bình Province in the north central coast of Vietnam.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Battle of Ap Bac

The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War in Định Tường Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province), South Vietnam.

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Bay of Pigs Invasion (sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S.

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Beef bourguignon

Beef bourguignon or bœuf bourguignon, also called beef Burgundy, and bœuf à la Bourguignonne,Random House Dictionary is a French beef stew braised in red wine, often red Burgundy, and beef stock, typically flavored with carrots, onions, garlic, and a bouquet garni, and garnished with pearl onions, mushrooms, and bacon.

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Biological agent

Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons.

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Birmingham, Michigan

Birmingham is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Blockade

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Boeing

The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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British Indian Ocean Territory

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia.

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British Mauritius

Mauritius was a Crown colony off the southeast coast of Africa.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.

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Buddhist crisis

The Buddhist crisis (Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a 2010 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.

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Captain (United States O-3)

Captain in the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), U.S. Air Force (USAF), and U.S. Space Force (USSF) (abbreviated "CPT" in the and "Capt" in the USMC, USAF, and USSF) is a company-grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3.

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Chagos Archipelago

The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago.

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Chagossians

The Chagossians (also Îlois or Chagos Islanders) are an Afro-Asian ethnic group originating from freed African slaves brought to the Chagos Islands, specifically Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, and the Salomon island chain, in the late 18th century as well as people of Asian (Indian and Malay) descent.

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Charles J. Hitch

Charles J. Hitch (January 9, 1910 – September 11, 1995) was an American economist and Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965.

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Chemical weapon

A chemical weapon (CW) is a specialized munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans.

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Child Welfare League of America

The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that coordinates efforts for child welfare in the United States, and provides direct support to agencies that serve children and families.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Civil control of the military

Civil control of the military is a doctrine in military and political science that places ultimate responsibility for a country's strategic decision-making in the hands of the state's civil authority, rather than completely with professional military leadership itself.

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Clark Clifford

Clark McAdams Clifford (December 25, 1906October 10, 1998) was an American lawyer who served as an important political adviser to Democratic presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter. Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford are American people of the Vietnam War, Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members, presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and united States Secretaries of Defense.

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Close air support

In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as aerial warfare actions—often air-to-ground actions such as strafes or airstrikes—by military aircraft against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Colonel (United States)

A colonel in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, is the most senior field-grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general.

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Comptroller

A comptroller (pronounced either the same as controller or as) is a management-level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.

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Conscription in the United States

In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

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Counterforce

In nuclear strategy, a counterforce target is one that has a military value, such as a launch silo for intercontinental ballistic missiles, an airbase at which nuclear-armed bombers are stationed, a homeport for ballistic missile submarines, or a command and control installation.

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Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces".

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Craig McNamara

Robert Craig McNamara (born 1950) is an American farmer and activist.

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Crossing the Rubicon

The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" is an idiom that means "passing a point of no return".

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Curtis LeMay

Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a US Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II.

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Cyrus Vance

Cyrus Roberts Vance Sr. (March 27, 1917January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Robert McNamara and Cyrus Vance are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and Urban Institute people.

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Da Nang

Da Nang or DanangSee also Danang Dragons (Đà Nẵng,, Hán Nôm: 陀㶞) is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population.

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Da Nang Air Base

Da Nang Air Base (Căn cứ không quân Đà Nẵng) (1930s–1975) (also known as Da Nang Airfield, Tourane Airfield or Tourane Air Base) was a French Air Force and later Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility located in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam.

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Daedalus (journal)

Dædalus is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1846 as the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, obtaining its current title in 1958.

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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. Robert McNamara and Daniel Ellsberg are American people of the Vietnam War.

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Dave Mallow

Dave Mallow (born October 19, 1948) is an American retired voice actor.

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Dương Văn Minh

Dương Văn Minh (16 February 19166 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm.

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Declaration of Honolulu, 1966

The Declaration of Honolulu, 1966 was a communiqué and diplomatic proclamation acceded by foreign diplomats representing South Vietnam and the United States.

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Defense Information Systems Agency

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), known as the Defense Communications Agency (DCA) until 1991, is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) combat support agency composed of military, federal civilians, and contractors.

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Defense Intelligence Agency

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in defense and military intelligence.

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Defense Logistics Agency

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is a combat support agency in the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Denis Healey

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date.

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Deterrence theory

Deterrence theory refers to the scholarship and practice of how threats of using force by one party can convince another party to refrain from initiating some other course of action.

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Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom also claimed by Mauritius.

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Directive 5120.36

Department of Defense Directive 5120.36 was issued in July 1963 by Robert McNamara, then United States Secretary of Defense.

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Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)

The Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is a military decoration of the United States Army that is presented to soldiers who have distinguished themselves by exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility.

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District of Columbia National Guard

The District of Columbia National Guard is the branch of the National Guard of the United States based in the District of Columbia.

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Domino theory

The domino theory is a geopolitical theory which posits that changes in the political structure of one country tend to spread to neighboring countries in a domino effect.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Robert McNamara and Dwight D. Eisenhower are American Presbyterians.

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Eagle Scout

Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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Earle Wheeler

Earle Gilmore Wheeler (January 13, 1908 – December 18, 1975), nicknamed Bus, was a United States Army general who served as the chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1962 to 1964 and then as the sixth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1964–1970), holding the latter position during the Vietnam War.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Ernest Gruening

Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician.

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Ernie Byfield

Ernest Lessing Byfield (November 3, 1889 – 10 February 1950) was an American hotelier and restaurateur from the 1930s through the 1950s in Chicago, Illinois.

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Errol Morris

Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron.

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EXCOMM

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (commonly referred to as simply the Executive Committee or ExComm) was a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

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Executive Order 9981

Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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First strike (nuclear strategy)

In nuclear strategy, a first strike or preemptive strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force.

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Flexible response

Flexible response was a defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of massive retaliation.

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Ford Falcon (North America)

The Ford Falcon is a model line of cars that was produced by Ford from the 1960 to 1970 model years.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.

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Forester

A forester is a person who practises forest management and forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fraternities and sororities

In North America, fraternities and sororities (fraternitas and sororitas|lit.

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Free to Choose

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is a 1980 book by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman, accompanied by a ten-part series broadcast on public television, that advocates free market principles.

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Free World

The Free World is a propaganda term, primarily used during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991, to refer to the Western Bloc and aligned countries.

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General Dynamics

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

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General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark is a retired supersonic, medium-range, multirole combat aircraft.

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General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF).

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General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B

The General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B was a long-range carrier-based interceptor aircraft planned as a follow-on to the F-4 Phantom II for the United States Navy (USN).

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George Ball (diplomat)

George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. Robert McNamara and George Ball (diplomat) are American people of the Vietnam War and Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members.

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George David Woods

George David Woods (July 27, 1901 – August 20, 1982) was a U.S. banker. Robert McNamara and George David Woods are presidents of the World Bank Group.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Robert McNamara and George W. Bush are 20th-century American memoirists.

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George Whelan Anderson Jr.

George Whelan Anderson Jr. (December 15, 1906 – March 20, 1992) was an admiral in the United States Navy and a diplomat.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Grosse Pointe

Grosse Pointe refers to an affluent coastal area next to Detroit, Michigan, United States, that comprises five adjacent individual cities.

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Grumman

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Gulf of Tonkin

The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China.

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Gulf of Tonkin incident

The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution,, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

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Harold Keith Johnson

Harold Keith "Johnny" Johnson (February 22, 1912 – September 24, 1983) was a United States Army general who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1964 to 1968.

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Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. Robert McNamara and Harry S. Truman are 20th-century American memoirists and united States Army colonels.

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Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. Robert McNamara and Henry Ford are Businesspeople from Michigan and ford executives.

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Henry Ford II

Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 – September 29, 1987), sometimes known as "Hank the Deuce" or simply "the Deuce", was an American businessman in the automotive industry. Robert McNamara and Henry Ford II are ford executives and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Henry Kissinger

Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger are American people of the Vietnam War and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Henry M. Jackson

Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. Robert McNamara and Henry M. Jackson are American Presbyterians and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds.

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History of Thailand (1932–1973)

The history of Thailand from 1932 to 1973 was dominated by military dictatorships which were in power for much of the period.

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History of the Philippines (1946–1965)

This article covers the history of the Philippines from the recognition of independence in 1946 to the end of the presidency of Diosdado Macapagal that covered much of the Third Republic of the Philippines, which ended on January 17, 1973, with the ratification of the 1973 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines.

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Ho Chi Minh trail

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, also called Annamite Range Trail was a logistical network of roads and trails that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.

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Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Robert McNamara and Hubert Humphrey are American people of the Vietnam War, Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66

Large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members and supposed sympathizers of the Communist Party (PKI) were carried out in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966.

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Inflation accounting

Inflation accounting comprises a range of accounting models designed to correct problems arising from historical cost accounting in the presence of high inflation and hyperinflation.

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Invasion

An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Jacob Javits

Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. Robert McNamara and Jacob Javits are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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James Forrestal

James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Robert McNamara and James Forrestal are civilian recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (United States) and united States Secretaries of Defense.

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Jim Meskimen

James Ross Meskimen (born September 10, 1959) is an American actor, comedian and impressionist, who is best known for his voice-over work in video games.

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John C. Stennis

John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of Mississippi.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Robert McNamara and John F. Kennedy are American people of the Vietnam War and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961–1963).

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John Galvin (general)

John Rogers Galvin (May 13, 1929 – September 25, 2015) was an American army general who served as the sixth dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a member of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century.

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John J. Herrick

Captain John Jerome Herrick, USN (June 23, 1920 – August 2, 1997) was an officer in the United States Navy who was Commander of Destroyer Division 192 embarked aboard the USS Maddox (DD 731) during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. Robert McNamara and John Kenneth Galbraith are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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John McNaughton (government official)

John Theodore McNaughton (November 21, 1921 – July 19, 1967) was an American government official who was United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert S. McNamara's closest advisor. Robert McNamara and John McNaughton (government official) are American people of the Vietnam War.

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John Paul Vann

John Paul Vann (born John Paul Tripp; July 2, 1924 – June 9, 1972) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well known for his role in the Vietnam War. Robert McNamara and John Paul Vann are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, united States Army Air Forces officers and united States Army colonels.

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John S. Gray (businessman)

John Simpson Gray (October 5, 1841 – July 6, 1906) was a candymaker, business man, and banker from Detroit. Robert McNamara and John S. Gray (businessman) are ford executives.

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John W. McCormack

John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, which advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters.

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Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies

The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies was a quarterly journal published by the Council for Social and Economic Studies.

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Katharine Graham

Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. Robert McNamara and Katharine Graham are 20th-century American memoirists and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–1980).

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Legion of Merit

The Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.

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Leslie H. Gelb

Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb (March 4, 1937 – August 31, 2019) was an American academic, correspondent and columnist for The New York Times who served as a senior Defense and State Department official and later the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Lieutenant colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, lieutenant colonel is a field-grade officer rank, just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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Lifeguard (automobile safety)

Lifeguard was the name of a 1956 safety package marketed by the Ford Motor Company.

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Lincoln Motor Company

Lincoln Motor Company, or simply Lincoln, is the luxury vehicle division of American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to Portugal

Bilateral diplomatic relations between the United States and Portugal date from the earliest years of the United States.

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List of Eagle Scouts

Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

This is a partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, listed chronologically within the aspect of life in which each recipient is or was renowned. Robert McNamara and list of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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List of United States political appointments across party lines

United States presidents typically fill their Cabinets and other appointive positions with people from their own political party.

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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, stealth multirole combat aircraft designed for air superiority and strike missions; it also has electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.

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Lyman Kirkpatrick

Lyman B. Kirkpatrick (1916–1995) was an American intelligence officer, academic and author who served as inspector general and executive director of the CIA.

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Lyman Lemnitzer

Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (August 29, 1899 – November 12, 1988) was a United States Army general who served as the fourth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. Robert McNamara and Lyman Lemnitzer are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Robert McNamara and Lyndon B. Johnson are 20th-century American memoirists, American people of the Vietnam War and Kennedy administration cabinet members.

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M16 rifle

The M16 rifle (officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is a family of assault rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States military.

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Major general (United States)

In the United States Armed Forces, a major general is a two-star general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.

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March on the Pentagon

The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967.

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Margaret McNamara

Margaret Craig McNamara (August 22, 1915 – February 3, 1981) was the founder of the nonprofit children's literacy organization Reading is Fundamental and the wife of the United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Robert McNamara and Margaret McNamara are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod.

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Martin B-57 Canberra

The Martin B-57 Canberra is an American-built, twin-engined tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1953.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massive retaliation

Massive retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

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Master of Business Administration

A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Maxwell D. Taylor

Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was a senior United States Army officer and diplomat of the mid-20th century.

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McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation).

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McGeorge Bundy

McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was an American academic who served as the U.S. National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966. Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy are American people of the Vietnam War, presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and Urban Institute people.

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McNamara fallacy

The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others.

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McNamara Line

The McNamara Line, an operational strategy employed by the United States in 1966–1968 during the Vietnam War, aimed to prevent infiltration of South Vietnam by NVA forces from North Vietnam and Laos.

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Mekong Delta

The Mekong Delta (lit or simply label), also known as the Western Region (Miền Tây) or South-western region (Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Middleburg, Virginia

Middleburg is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 673 as of the 2010 census.

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Mike Mansfield

Michael Joseph Mansfield (March 16, 1903 – October 5, 2001) was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977. Robert McNamara and Mike Mansfield are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the fastest military aircraft to enter service.

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Military Air Transport Service

The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) is an inactive Department of Defense Unified Command.

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Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

The U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was a joint-service command of the United States Department of Defense, composed of forces from the United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force, as well as their respective special operations forces.

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Morton Halperin

Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American analyst who deals with U.S. foreign policy, arms control, civil liberties, and the workings of bureaucracies. Robert McNamara and Morton Halperin are American people of the Vietnam War.

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Museum of Ho Chi Minh City

Museum of Ho Chi Minh City (Bảo tàng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), formerly known as Gia Long Palace (Dinh Gia Long), is a historical site and museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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Mutual assured destruction

Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Ngo Dinh Diem

Ngô Đình Diệm (or;; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup.

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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.

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Nguyễn Khánh

Nguyễn Khánh (8 November 192711 January 2013) was a South Vietnamese military officer and Army of the Republic of Vietnam general who served in various capacities as head of state and prime minister of South Vietnam while at the head of a military junta from January 1964 until February 1965.

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Norman Morrison

Norman R. Morrison (December 29, 1933 – November 2, 1965) was an American anti-war activist.

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North American T-6 Texan

The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s.

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Nuclear strategy

Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II.

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Onchocerciasis

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus.

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Operation Barrel Roll

Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 5 March 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War.

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Operation Chrome Dome

Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in positions to attack targets in the Soviet Union if they were ordered to do so.

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Operation Flaming Dart

Operation Flaming Dart was a U.S. and South Vietnamese military operation, conducted in two parts, during the Vietnam War.

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Operation Igloo White

Operation Igloo White was a covert United States joint military electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War.

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Operation Pierce Arrow

Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. bombing campaign at the beginning of the Vietnam War.

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Operation Rolling Thunder

Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

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Order of the Golden Bear

The Order of the Golden Bear (the Order, OGB) is an honor society at the University of California, Berkeley composed of students, faculty, and alumni committed to serving the University of California.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Output budgeting

Output budgeting is a wide-ranging management technique introduced into the United States in the mid-1960s by Robert S. McNamara's collaborator Charles J. Hitch, not always with ready cooperation with the administrators and based on the industrial management techniques of program budgeting.

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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint.

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Path to War

Path to War is a 2002 American biographical television film, produced by HBO and directed by John Frankenheimer.

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Paul D. Harkins

Paul Donal Harkins (May 15, 1904 – August 21, 1984) was a career officer in the United States Army and attained the rank of general.

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Paul F. Gorman

Paul Francis Gorman (born August 25, 1927) is a retired United States Army general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command (USCINCSO) from 1983 to 1985.

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Paul Hendrickson

Paul Hendrickson (born April 29, 1944) is an American author, journalist, and professor.

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Paul Nitze

Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. Robert McNamara and Paul Nitze are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Paul Warnke

Paul Culliton Warnke (January 31, 1920 – October 31, 2001) was an American diplomat.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.

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Pentagon Papers

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.

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Pepco

The Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is an American utility company that supplies electric power to the city of Washington, D.C., and to surrounding communities in Maryland.

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Peter Thorneycroft

George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, (26 July 1909 – 4 June 1994) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Gamma Delta (ΦΓΔ), commonly known as Fiji, is a social fraternity with 139 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Phoumi Nosavan

Major General Phoumi Nosavan (ພູມີ ຫນໍ່ສວັນ; 27 January 1920 – 3 November 1985)Stuart-Fox, pp.

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Piedmont High School (California)

Piedmont High School is a public high school located in Piedmont, California, United States, and is one of two high schools in the Piedmont Unified School District.

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Piedmont, California

Piedmont is a small city located in Alameda County, California, United States, enclaved by the city of Oakland.

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Policy analysis

Policy analysis or public policy analysis is a technique used in the public administration sub-field of political science to enable civil servants, nonprofit organizations, and others to examine and evaluate the available options to implement the goals of laws and elected officials.

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Polio

Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Presidency of Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953.

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President of the World Bank Group

The president of the World Bank Group is the head of World Bank Group. Robert McNamara and president of the World Bank Group are presidents of the World Bank Group.

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President-elect of the United States

The president-elect of the United States is the candidate who has presumptively won the United States presidential election and is awaiting inauguration to become the president.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. Robert McNamara and Presidential Medal of Freedom are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Profiles in Courage

Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.

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Project 100,000

Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's 100,000, McNamara's Folly, McNamara's Morons, and McNamara's Misfits, was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.

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Project 112

Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the United States Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973.

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Public Affairs Press

Public Affairs Press (– mid-1980s) was a book publisher in Washington, D.C., owned and often edited by Morris Bartel Schnapper (1912–1999).

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Public policy

Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs.

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PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited is a multinational professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.

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Quarantine

A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests.

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Quincy House (Harvard College)

Quincy House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located on Plympton Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River.

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RAND Corporation

The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.

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Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental, Inc.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard B. Frank

Richard B. Frank (born November 11, 1947) is an American lawyer and military historian.

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Richard Holbrooke

Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat and author. Robert McNamara and Richard Holbrooke are American people of the Vietnam War.

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Richard N. Goodwin

Richard Naradof Goodwin (December 7, 1931 – May 20, 2018) was an American writer and presidential advisor.

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Richard Neustadt

Richard Elliott Neustadt (June 26, 1919 – October 31, 2003) was an American political scientist specializing in the United States presidency. Robert McNamara and Richard Neustadt are Urban Institute people.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. Robert McNamara and Richard Nixon are 20th-century American memoirists, American people of the Vietnam War and military personnel from California.

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Richard Russell Jr.

Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was an American politician.

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Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy.

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Robert A. Lovett

Robert Abercrombie Lovett (September 14, 1895May 7, 1986) was an American politician who served as the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, having been promoted to this position from Deputy Secretary of Defense. Robert McNamara and Robert A. Lovett are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and united States Secretaries of Defense.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. Robert McNamara and Robert F. Kennedy are Kennedy administration cabinet members and Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members.

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Robert Picardo

Robert Alphonse Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor.

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Roswell Gilpatric

Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric (November 4, 1906 – March 15, 1996) was a New York City corporate attorney and government official who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1961–64, when he played a pivotal role in the high-stake strategies of the Cuban Missile Crisis, advising President John F. Robert McNamara and Roswell Gilpatric are American people of the Vietnam War.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.

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Salvador Allende

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sealift

Sealift is a term used predominantly in military logistics and refers to the use of cargo ships for the deployment of military assets, such as weaponry, vehicles, military personnel, and supplies.

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Seat belt

A seat belt, also known as a safety belt or spelled seatbelt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the driver or a passenger of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Singapore Naval Base

His Majesty's Naval Base, Singapore, also Her Majesty's Naval Base, Singapore (HMNB Singapore), alternatively known as the Singapore Naval Base, Sembawang Naval Base and HMS Sembawang, was situated in Sembawang at the northern tip of Singapore and was both a Royal Navy shore establishment and a cornerstone of British defence policy (the Singapore strategy) in the Far East between the World Wars.

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Snowmass Village, Colorado

Snowmass Village is a home rule municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.

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South Vietnam Air Force

The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; Force aérienne vietnamienne, FAVN) (sometimes referred to as the Vietnam Air Force or VNAF), was the aerial branch of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975.

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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.

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Soviet Army

The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska) was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992.

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Stanley Karnow

Stanley Abram Karnow (February 4, 1925 – January 27, 2013) was an American journalist and historian.

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992.

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Strategic Army Corps

The Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) was a command of the United States Army, with a mission of high readiness, active in the 1960s.

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Strom Thurmond

James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Robert McNamara and Strom Thurmond are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Stuart Symington

William Stuart Symington III (June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Missouri. Robert McNamara and Stuart Symington are civilian recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (United States).

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Students for a Democratic Society

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s and was one of the principal representations of the New Left.

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Suharto

Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving President of Indonesia.

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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program

The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program is a US based competitive grants and education program administered through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and run by four regional councils that set policy and make grants.

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Systems analysis

Systems analysis is "the process of studying a procedure or business to identify its goal and purposes and create systems and procedures that will efficiently achieve them".

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Tactical Air Command

Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization.

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Taylor-Rostow Report

The Taylor-Rostow Report was a report prepared in November 1961 on the situation in Vietnam in relation to Vietcong operations in South Vietnam.

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Ted Sorensen

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (May 8, 1928 – October 31, 2010) was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser.

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Tex Thornton

Charles Bates "Tex" Thornton (July 22, 1913 – November 24, 1981) was an American business executive who was the founder of Litton Industries. Robert McNamara and Tex Thornton are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and united States Army Air Forces officers.

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The Emergency (India)

The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country by citing internal and external threats to the country.

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The Fog of War

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Hump

The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in China.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas S. Gates Jr.

Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. (April 10, 1906March 25, 1983) was an American politician and diplomat who served as Secretary of Defense from 1959 to 1961 and Secretary of the Navy from 1957 to 1959, both under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Robert McNamara and Thomas S. Gates Jr. are united States Secretaries of Defense.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Times Books

Times Books (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company.

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Treyarch

Treyarch Corporation (formerly Treyarch Invention LLC) is an American video game developer based in Santa Monica, California.

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U. Alexis Johnson

Ural Alexis Johnson (October 17, 1908 – March 24, 1997) was a United States diplomat.

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U. S. Grant Sharp Jr.

Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp Jr. (April 2, 1906 – December 12, 2001) was a four-star admiral of the United States Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) from 1963 to 1964; and Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Command (CINCPAC) from 1964 to 1968.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).

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United States Army Special Forces

The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the "Green Berets" due to their distinctive service headgear, is the special operations branch of the United States Army.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet. Robert McNamara and United States Secretary of Defense are united States Secretaries of Defense.

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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United States Secretary of the Treasury

The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Senate Committee on Armed Services

The Committee on Armed Services, sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee, is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy.

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United States Strike Command

In 1961 the United States Strike Command (STRICOM) was established at MacDill Air Force Base as a unified combatant command capable of responding to global crises.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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V/STOL

A vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft is an airplane able to take-off or land vertically or on short runways.

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Varsity letter

A varsity letter (or monogram) is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities.

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Võ Nguyên Giáp

Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a general of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), communist revolutionary and politician.

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Viet Cong

The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.

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Vietnam People's Navy

The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), internally the Naval Service, also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy, is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the country's national waters, islands, and interests of the maritime economy, as well as for the co-ordination of maritime police, customs service and the border defence force.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vietnam War body count controversy

The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975).

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Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone

The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 22 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into the two military gathering areas, which was supposed to be sustained in the short term after the First Indochina War.

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W. Averell Harriman

William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. Robert McNamara and w. Averell Harriman are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Wallace M. Greene

Wallace Martin Greene Jr. (December 27, 1907 – March 8, 2003) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964, to December 31, 1967.

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Walt Rostow

Walt Whitman Rostow (October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) was an American economist, professor and political theorist who served as national security advisor to president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969. Robert McNamara and Walt Rostow are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.

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Wayne Morse

Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon.

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Whiz Kids (Ford)

The Whiz Kids were a group of ten United States Army Air Forces veterans of World War II who became Ford Motor Company executives in 1946. Robert McNamara and Whiz Kids (Ford) are ford executives.

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William Bundy

William Putnam Bundy (September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was an American attorney and analyst with the CIA.

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William R. Peers

William Ray Peers (June 14, 1914 – April 6, 1984) was a United States Army general, who is most notable for presiding over the Peers Commission investigation into the Mỹ Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.

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William Westmoreland

William Childs Westmoreland (26 March 1914 – 18 July 2005) was a United States Army general, most notably the commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.

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Winters, California

Winters is a city in rural Yolo County, and the western Sacramento Valley, in northern California, United States.

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World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

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World Bank Scholarships Program

The World Bank Scholarship programme began in 1982.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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XX Bomber Command

The XX Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces bomber formation.

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1960 United States presidential election

The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.

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1964 Brinks Hotel bombing

The Brinks Hotel in Saigon, also known as the Brink Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ), was bombed by the Viet Cong on the evening of December 24, 1964, during the Vietnam War.

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2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.

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7th Division (South Vietnam)

The Seventh Division was part of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975.

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See also

Civilian recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (United States)

• Anna Howard Shaw
• Bernard Baruch
• Edward R. Stettinius
• Edwin B. Parker
• Evangeline Booth
• Harry Augustus Garfield
• Harry Hopkins
• Henry L. Stimson
• Henry Pomeroy Davison
• Hugh Frayne
• Jacqueline Cochran
• James F. Byrnes
• James Forrestal
• Jane Delano
• John Frank Stevens
• John J. McCloy
• Mary Vail Andress
• Robert J. Thorne
• Robert McNamara
• Robert S. Brookings
• Stuart Symington

Kennedy administration cabinet members

• Abraham Ribicoff
• Adlai Stevenson II
• Anthony J. Celebrezze
• Arthur Goldberg
• C. Douglas Dillon
• Dean Rusk
• J. Edward Day
• John A. Gronouski
• Luther H. Hodges
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Orville Freeman
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Robert McNamara
• Stewart Udall
• W. Willard Wirtz

Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members

• Adlai Stevenson II
• Alan S. Boyd
• Alexander Trowbridge
• Anthony J. Celebrezze
• Arthur Goldberg
• C. Douglas Dillon
• C. R. Smith
• Clark Clifford
• Dean Rusk
• George Ball (diplomat)
• Henry H. Fowler
• Hubert Humphrey
• James Russell Wiggins
• John A. Gronouski
• John T. Connor
• John W. Gardner
• Joseph W. Barr
• Larry O'Brien
• Luther H. Hodges
• Nicholas Katzenbach
• Orville Freeman
• Ramsey Clark
• Robert C. Weaver
• Robert Coldwell Wood
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Robert McNamara
• Stewart Udall
• W. Marvin Watson
• W. Willard Wirtz
• Wilbur J. Cohen

Presidents of the World Bank Group

• Ajay Banga
• Alden W. Clausen
• Barber Conable
• David Malpass
• Eugene Meyer (financier)
• Eugene R. Black Sr.
• George David Woods
• James Wolfensohn
• Jim Yong Kim
• John J. McCloy
• Lewis Thompson Preston
• Paul Wolfowitz
• President of the World Bank Group
• Robert McNamara
• Robert Zoellick

United States Secretaries of Defense

• Ash Carter
• Caspar Weinberger
• Charles Erwin Wilson
• Christopher C. Miller
• Chuck Hagel
• Clark Clifford
• Dick Cheney
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Elliot Richardson
• Frank Carlucci
• George C. Marshall
• Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
• James Forrestal
• James R. Schlesinger
• Jim Mattis
• Leon Panetta
• Les Aspin
• Lloyd Austin
• Louis A. Johnson
• Mark Esper
• Melvin Laird
• Neil H. McElroy
• Robert A. Lovett
• Robert Gates
• Robert McNamara
• Thomas S. Gates Jr.
• United States Secretary of Defense
• William Cohen
• William J. Perry

Urban Institute people

• Annette Nazareth
• Anthony A. Williams
• Arthur I. Segel
• Charles H. Ramsey
• Cyrus Vance
• David Autor
• Deval Patrick
• Diana Farrell
• Eduardo J. Padrón
• Erskine Bowles
• Freeman A. Hrabowski III
• Greg Mankiw
• Henry Cisneros
• J. Irwin Miller
• Jamie Gorelick
• John Rowe (Aetna)
• Kermit Gordon
• Kilolo Kijakazi
• Margaret Hamburg
• Marne Levine
• Mary J. Miller
• McGeorge Bundy
• Mitch Daniels
• Nani A. Coloretti
• Richard Neustadt
• Robert McNamara
• Robert Reischauer
• Ron Terwilliger
• Sarah Rosen Wartell
• Shaun Donovan
• William Gorham

References

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