Episode 39: The Johnson Treatment (Part 7) A Full Scale Land War in Asia

BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback · Aug 15, 2021 · 1h 13m

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This episode unfolds in two parts.

In the mid 1990's, Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wrote a book in which he describes what he called the mistakes his generation of leadership had made in Vietnam and his thoughts on how future generations could avoid them. He admits they were wrong. McNamara has often been criticized by historians, even in our series we used one interview with Michael Beschloss where he described McNamara's representations critically from this very book. So I thought we should here from the man himself. This was his appearance, in 1996, with Ted…