Robert McNamara, Vietnam-era Defense Secretary, Has Died

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Robert McNamara, who led the Pentagon through many of the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and was blamed by many critics for the way that war was fought, has passed away at the age of 93.

In later years, McNamara came to agree with those who said it was a misguided war.

"We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of our country. But we were wrong. We were terribly wrong," he told The Associated Press in 1995.