A New History By Philip Taubman and William Taubman W. W. Norton & Co., 2025, $39.99 Just when you thought it was safe to go ...

At Time Magazine’s gala celebration of its 75th anniversary on March 3, 1998. A few guests were asked to toast someone they especially admired. John F. Kennedy Jr.—the president’s son who died a year ...

Abbie Rowe/PhotoQuest/Getty Ted Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, with her children Caroline and John Jr at President John F. Kennedy's funeral Craig McNamara was just 13 years old in November 1963, when ...

About seven years ago, I considered writing a biography of Robert McNamara. I was intrigued by his willingness to examine his own mistakes on Vietnam, and I was drawn to the tragedy of a brilliant and ...

The Vietnam War officially ended in 1975. But for millions of Americans who served or had loved ones fighting in that bloody mess, it rages on. One of those Americans is Craig McNamara. Does that name ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Robert McNamara, secretary of defense during the Vietnam War, whose later public expressions of regret for the role he played came too late for many veterans and critics, died Monday ...

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting the Vietnam War, then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday. He was ...

He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers case. By Richard Goldstein In ...

The Vietnam War shaped a generation. It brought people together for protests. It also tore families apart — in part because of deaths and injuries in the war, and in part because of disagreements on ...

Former Ford Motor Company president and US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara passed away in his sleep last night at his home. "His age just caught up with him," McNamara's wife, Diana, was quoted ...