Newswise — Maryland's experts talk about Robert McNamara:
Dean Donald Kettl, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland:
"One of the most interesting guys of the last few generations. He was the architect of the Vietnam tragedy, an enormous intellect who struggled ever since to sort out where the well-intentioned strategy went so dramatically off the tracks. He took some of that thinking with him to the World Bank, where the overhang of Vietnam led him to reinvigorate the agency.
It was a tragedy of intellect—the king of Kennedy's "whiz kids," who analyzed himself and the country into a trip from which neither he nor the nation could escape."
All our McNamara experts can be found at:
UMD McNamara Experts: Public Policy Dean Kettl and more:
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/experts/hottopic.cfm?hotlist_id=162
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