{"id":1997,"date":"2009-07-06T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2009-07-06T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:17:16","slug":"the-robert-mcnamara-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/06\/the-robert-mcnamara-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robert McNamara legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment2033\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2033\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2033 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/mcnamara2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"McNamara\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment2033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McNamara<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With <a title=\"news of the passing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/06\/AR2009070601197.html\" target=\"_blank\">news of the passing<\/a> of Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under JFK and Lyndon Johnson, talk of his leagacy will undoubtedly focus on his hand in the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Available to discuss the late Vietnam-era Defense Secretary&#8217;s\u00a0place in\u00a0history, is retired Army Colonel <a title=\"Andrew Bacevich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/bacevich.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Bacevich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Andrew Bacevich, 617-358-0194, <a href=\"mailto:bacevich@bu.edu\">bacevich@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With news of the passing of Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under JFK and Lyndon Johnson, talk of his leagacy will undoubtedly focus on his hand in the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Available to discuss the late Vietnam-era Defense Secretary&#8217;s\u00a0place in\u00a0history, is retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich. Contact Andrew Bacevich, 617-358-0194, bacevich@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1410,1409,1411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}