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Onetime Vietnam War leader dies

A former U.S. Defense Secretary who had a lead role in managing the controversial Vietnam War has died at 93. Robert McNamara served under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
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A former U.S. Defense Secretary who had a lead role in managing the controversial Vietnam War has died at 93.

Robert McNamara served under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

He was a also a member of Kennedy's inner circle during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Vietnam conflict was sometimes known as "McNamara's War."

But later in life, McNamara claimed the U.S. was "terribly wrong" to have pursued military action beyond 1963.

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