Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, was bound to be controversial. Still, when it was published in April, no one expected the torrent of criticism that rained down on the 78-year-old Cal-ifornian who, by the age of 44, had helped rebuild the post- war Ford Motor Company; who after 1961 remade the Pentagon as our longest-serving secretary of defense; who lowered the nuclear risks to NATO; and who, after leaving the Pentagon in early 1968, refashioned the World Bank to aid millions of the world's poor.
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