By the end of his eleven years at Ford, he had risen to president, but in 1960 he left to work in the realm for which he is most known.
After World War II, he and a group of Air Force buddies went to work for Ford Motor Company. He had been commissioned by the Air Force due to work he did in England following a professorship at Harvard. By the end of his eleven years at Ford, he had risen to president, but in 1960 he left to work in the realm for which he is most known. He wrote several books, including The Essence of Security and Out of the Cold. With the federal government, he declined a post as Secretary of the Treasury, instead taking another job where he approached foreign policy with his trademark rationalism. He was noted for his failed attempts to run the Pentagon like a business, and he was largely behind the Vietnam War. Identify this Secretary of Defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
After World War II, he and a group of Air Force buddies went to work for Ford Motor Company.
Robert Strange McNamara