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Robert McNamara deceived LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin, documents show (Video)

by Gareth Porter

11 July 2009

Official government documents reveal a new side of defense secretary’s legacy. Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1967, took many secrets with him when he died on Monday, July 6, at 93. But probably no secret was more sensitive politically than the one that would have changed (...)