McNamara graduated cum laude in physics and math from Berkely. You got to be pretty damn smart to graduate cum laude in physics and math from a top of the top university like Berkely. And to think that some peasants outwitted him....
SUCKMYMUSCLE
Did he really graduate in math and physics with a cum laude degree in Berkeley? The info I've found so far indicates that he has a B.A. in economy and minors in math and philosophy, afterwards he made his MBA at Harvard, but nowhere did he graduate cum laude, as far as i know. If he was really smart he would've known that the monroe doctrine was the way to go for america... every war america has been in had serious imperialistic undertones... those wars were not necessary, they were just profitable for top dogs in government and business. The vietnam war even started under false premises, look up golf of tonkin. But maybe he was smart for his own ass, not for the sake of the american people... then i must concede that he was really smart. I'm sure his friends made a coin or two from that long lasting and exacerbating war.