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Robert McNamara

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Robert McNamara

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Also known as McNamara, Robert Strange McNamara, Robert S. McNamara

American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)

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Robert McNamara (1916–2009) was an author whose career began in 1943. His written works include *Sociology As Everyday Life*, *Abiding Time*, *Personalism of Edith Stein*, *Homelessness in America*, and *The Fog Of War*. Open Library lists 27 works associated with the name Robert McNamara, while Crossref records 5.

McNamara received recognition in the Legion Of Merit collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is the subject of 1,161 other encyclopedia articles. A quote attributed to him states, "I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all."

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
27

Top works

  • Sociology As Everyday Life
  • Abiding Time
  • Personalism of Edith Stein
  • Homelessness in America
  • The Fog Of War

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
1995
Active to
2007

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
50
Total plays
89

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Mcnamara">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

    · 1988 · cited 95,762x

  2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

    · 2011 · cited 56,528x

  3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

    · 2009 · cited 46,809x

  4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

    · 1996 · cited 39,769x

  5. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,465x

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Quotes

  • “I must say I don't object to its being called McNamara's 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.”
  • “Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.”
  • “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. Can't they see that?”
  • “It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.”
  • “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 can't change human nature...”
  • “I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Strange McNamara (/ˈmæknəˌmærə/; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009), 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 promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.

McNamara graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Business School. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After World War II, Henry Ford II hired McNamara and a group of other Army Air Force veterans to work for the Ford Motor Company, reforming Ford with modern planning, organization, and management control systems. After briefly serving as Ford's president, McNamara accepted an appointment as secretary of defense in the Kennedy administration.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert McNamara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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