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Cover: Secretary of Defense McNamara press conference on the withdrawal of troops and units from France, June 16, 1966. (Bettmann/Getty Images.)
1.1Secretary of Defense McNamara sits down for an interview with CBS, September 19, 1963
2.1Secretary of Defense McNamara, swears in Secretary of the Army Cyrus R. Vance and Defense Department General Counsel John T. McNaughton, July 5, 1962
2.2President John F. Kennedy with Secretary of Defense McNamara outside the Oval Office, October 29, 1962
3.1Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara visits the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, October 12, 1961
3.2Secretary of Defense McNamara with Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, August 5, 1964
6.1President Kennedy with Secretary of Defense McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor on their return from Vietnam, October 2, 1963
7.1A page from John T. McNaughton’s scrapbooks: Secretary of Defense McNamara arrives in Saigon and McNaughton at a reception at the US Embassy in Saigon
7.2A page from John T. McNaughton’s scrapbooks: Secretary of Defense McNamara arrives again in Saigon
8.1President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara drive at the LBJ ranch, December 22, 1964
8.2Secretary of Defense McNamara, John T. McNaughton and General Westmoreland listen to a briefing in Saigon, Vietnam, July 1965
9.1General Westmoreland, Secretary of State Rusk and Secretary of Defense McNamara attend Honolulu Conference on the Vietnam War, February 2, 1966
9.2New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Secretary of Defense McNamara, November 5, 1964
9.3Secretary of State Rusk, President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara attend a meeting on Vietnam, January 20, 1967
9.4President Johnson and Secretary McNamara in a Cabinet meeting on the Vietnam War, February 7, 1968
C.1Secretary of Defense McNamara in conversation with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, July 25, 1965
C.2A page from John T. McNaughton’s scrapbooks: McNaughton and Secretary of Defense McNamara attend SFRC hearings where they defended the value of the Military Assistance Program, April 20, 1966