American Decades
"Mutual Deterrence"
Speech
By: Robert S. McNamara
Date: September 18, 1967
Source: McNamara, Robert S. "Mutual Deterrence." September 18, 1967. Reproduced in CNN Cold War Historical Documents. Available online at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/12/documents/... ; website home page: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ (accessed April 2, 2003).
About the Author: Robert S. McNamara (1916–), born in San Francisco, California, earned a master's in business administration from Harvard University. McNamara served in the military during World War II (1939–1945) as a supply and management expert. In 1946 he joined Ford Motor Company as an efficiency expert. By 1960 he was president of Ford. In 1961, McNamara was appointed Secretary of...
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1960's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Berlin Crisis
- The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society
- "U-2 Photography of Soviet MRBM Site in Cuba, October 1962"
- "The Desolate Year"
- "Smoker on the Street Largely Defiant"
- "The Great Society"
- "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy"
- "Aggression from the North"
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Federal Role in Traffic Safety: Hearings Before the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations
- Three Years in Mississippi
- "Mutual Deterrence"
- Codes of Conduct and the My Lai Massacre
- "President Lyndon B. Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1960's: Primary Sources
