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Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
President Lyndon B. Johnson
and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara – far right
February 1968

As a significant adviser to the president, McNamara is
most well known as the prime architect of the
calamitous American involvement in the Vietnam War.

During the Kennedy administration, McNamara supported
the President's decision to increase American
participation in Vietnam.

Under President Johnson, he began to question American
goals in the war and thought them to be unachievable.
He urged the President to pursue a peaceful solution to
the conflict.

Johnson asked McNamara to step down in 1967.