TOFO
"In the book
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995), MacNamara claimed that, from as early as 1965, after the dispatch of US ground forces and the start of massive bombing, he thought the war "impossible" to win "short of genocidal destruction". By late 1967 he believed that America would suffer "a major national disaster" if the war did not stop and wrote a memorandum to President Johnson urging the case for complete withdrawal. Within weeks he had been forced to resign, albeit with the consolation prize of the World Bank presidency and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
McNamara's claims were borne out by declassified secret tapes of cabinet discussions at the time which seemed to support his contention that he was a restraining influence. He could be heard urging President Kennedy to get out of Vietnam as early as October 1963, and in a telephone conversation in 1964 Johnson could be heard chastising McNamara for giving Kennedy that advice. "
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