People of the Defense Intelligence Agency - Analysts of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Directors of the Defense Intelligence Agency (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Analysts of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Directors of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Robert McNamara, Thomas R. Wilson, Patrick M. Hughes, Samuel V. Wilson, John Michael McConnell, Lowell E. Jacoby, James R. Clapper, Chris Carney, Harry E. Soyster, James A. Williams, W. Patrick Lang, Russ Tice, Delfin Fernandez, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Daniel O. Graham, Kenneth Minihan, Joseph Carroll, Ana Montes, Rick Francona, Keith Dayton, Maxie McFarland, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Bobby Ray Inman, Michael D. Maples, Eugene F. Tighe, Alva R. Fitch, Anthony Shaffer, Frederick H. Fleitz, Vincent P. De Poix, Donald V. Bennett, Robert Cardillo, Derek Harvey, Dennis M. Nagy, Edward Angus Powell, Jr., Leonard H. Perroots, Letitia Long. Excerpt: Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 - July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. Robert McNamara was born in San Francisco, California. His father was Robert James McNamara, sales manager of a wholesale shoe company. His mother was Clara Nell Strange McNamara, whose maiden name was given as her son's middle name. According to McNamara, his father's family was Irish and in about 1850, following the Great Irish Famine, had emigrated to Massachusetts and later to California. He graduated from Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California in 1933 where he was president of the Rigma Lions boys club and earned the rank of Eag...