The son of John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s defense secretary delivers a searing memoir of war, betrayal and love
Robert McNamara, center, talks with John F Kennedy and Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the chief joint chiefs of staff.Robert McNamara, center, talks with John F Kennedy and Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the chief joint chiefs of staff.n the mid-1960s, Craig McNamara and his mother were both diagnosed with ulcers. Craig has a theory about why they were afflicted simultaneously: “I think we both felt the weight of my father’s decisions throughout our bodies and in every part of our minds.
At my own prep school graduation, a few days after Bobby Kennedy was killed, not a single speaker mentioned his name or his murder. Opposing the war was one way of staking out some independence from my father. For young Craig, it was far more visceral:
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