. In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet...
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Robert McNamara:
It's almost impossible for our people today to put themselves back into that period [the Cold War] Robert McNamara:
. In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions! Twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred sixty-five days a year, for seven years as Secretary of Defense, I lived the Cold War! During the Kennedy Administration, they designed a one-hundred Megaton bomb! It was tested in the atmosphere; I remember this
It's almost impossible for our people today to put themselves back into that period [the Cold War] Robert McNamara:
. In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions! Twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred sixty-five days a year, for seven years as Secretary of Defense, I lived the Cold War! During the Kennedy Administration, they designed a one-hundred Megaton bomb! It was tested in the atmosphere; I remember this
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It's almost impossible for our people today
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to put themselves back into that period
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In my seven years as secretary
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we came within a hairsbreadth of war with the Soviet Union
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on three different occasions
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Twenty four hours a day 365 days a year
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for seven years as secretary of defense
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I lived the Cold War
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During the Kennedy administration
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they designed a 100 megaton bomb
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It was tested in the atmosphere
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I remember this
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Movie Summary
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
