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"I must say I dont object to its being called McNamaras War. I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it."
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Robert McNamaraI would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all. — Robert McNamara
"I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all."
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Robert Strange McNamara, also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in prom
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"You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emotion. They say I am a power gabber. But knowledge is power, and I am giving them knowledge, so they will have more power. Cant they see that?"
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"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives."
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"Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society."
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"Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong. Lesson #8: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning. Lesson #9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil. Lesson #10: Never say never. Lesson #11: You cant change human nature..."
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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme."
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