mcnamara. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. we've come a good, long way since the cold war but relations with the russians have just been downright chilly for a good number of years. tonight the president of the united states is in russia, and when those two leaders talk, the whole world has a stake in it. as "time" magazine put it this week, between them, let's not forget they own enough firepower to blow us all to kingdom come. they talked about that firepower today as a new u.s. president now gets to deal with the russians. it's where we begin tonight. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd traveling with the president in moscow. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, it was a very busy first day in moscow for president obama, because in the words of the russian president, the two are dealing with a backlog of problems. those problems include that nuclear pro lifation issue you were talking about, iran, even u.s. beef exports. flyin

is that mcnamara was a person who kept the lid on.hat he perceived and i think rightly so that there was an enormous danger of nuclear war. and that his principal job was to prevent that at all costs from happening. i am asked quite often about the relationship between donald rumsfeld and robert mcnamara. >> i haven't asked you that. >> you haven't asked me but it's often expressed as these two technocrats, two sides of the same coin. and i like to remind people that when mcnumber ara took office in 1960, he was facing a bellicose joint chiefs. there was the fear of a preemptive nuclear strike against the soviet union. and part of his story is the story of an attempt to control nuclear weapons and to prevent the possibility of nuclear war. >> is your reporting and research that you did for your biography of mcnamara support what mr. morris is saying? >>. >> a gate deal of it. but to come back to why he didn't speak out sooner, he had two arguments. and these were discussions that i had with him and also with mac bundy and other adviso

mcnamara who died yesterday.democrats, called -- to a 2-737 -- host: here is part of the right up on "the washington post." headline says terribly wrong handling of vietnam overshadowed record of achievement. robert mcnamara, 93, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of the industry and chieftain of foreign financial it was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of u.s. involvement in the war in vietnam, died yesterday at is on the washington. the family said he suffered a fall three years ago but did not provide a specific cause of death. he was secretary of defense during the presidency of jfk and lyndon johnson. in that capacity he directed a u.s. military buildup in southeast asia during the critical early years of a vietnamese conflict that escalated into one of the most divisive and awards in u.s. history. when the war was over, 58,000 americans were dead and a national social fabric have been torn asunder. before taking office as secretary

but nothing about mcnamara's death, -- when i think about mcnamara's death, human beings make mistakesmade a tragic one. he tried the rest of his life to understand what went wrong and to atone for what he did. tavis: the author of the new novel, "the increment," david ignatius. up next, from the new film "the hurt locker," actor jeremy renner. stay with us. in the critically acclaimed new film, "and her locker," -- "the hurt locker," jeremy renner stars as a bomb squad expert. here now is a scene from the movie. >> i got the suit, just go. you have 45 seconds. go! >> everybody get back! get back! go! get back! >> there's too many locks. i cannot do it. i connected it off. i am sorry, ok? i am sorry. i am sorry! get down, now! tavis: to that scene, quick, what did you take away from how one stays called in a job like this? and it's that kind of chaos. how do you stay calm? >> i cannot answer that question. these guys are focused. they're focused on the task at hand. i'm only an actor playing that role. as an actor, i had to have the focus to render safe that ied. tavis: when i saw that

mcnamara was called the conscious much the west.efore coming to washington he modernized the ford motor company, pulling the plug on the ill-fated ed zell. but everything is overshadowed by vietnam. >> i've asked robert mcnamara to assume responsibility of secretary of defense. >> reporter: for seven years, mcnamara directed the escalation of cmitment in vietnam. he was so enmeshed. by 1954 people were calming it mcnamara's war. >> our fire pow serum mens. why shouldn't we expect to sa chief military advantage. >> reporter: but in private it's been learned mcnamara had doubts that the u.s. could win in vietnam. after he exhe pressed them to president johnson he was given the medal of freedom and shown the door. indeed mcnamara spent the rest of his life agonizing over the war. it seemed to haunt him. >> we were wrong, terribly wrong. and we owe it to future generations to explain why. >> reporter: mcnamara continued his public mia kulpa in "the fog of war." >> any angered with himself that he made mistakes in the application of mili

mcnamara. >> about the human race killing people. they're unsolved. these are difficult issues. >> unsolved questions, if you like, about evil. about the problem of evil and where it comes from. >> one of the greatest theologians said "how much evil should be done to achieve good." that's a basic problem. >> i think we have this very simplistic idea that evil is the product of evil people. that there are a host of iagos in the wings rubbing their hands together conniving, calculating, plotting. and then the solution is just, well, let's find out where they are and let's go get them. let's kill them. let's lock them up. and there you have it. a solution to the problem of evil. but what if evil is much harder to identify? what if we're all capable of it? >> and what if at times it's necessary to do good? that was lieber's point. >> yes. i'm reminded-- and i have been reminded again and again in the course of making the movie-- how complex these decisions were that this man faced. this is not to e

my dad worked for mcnamara at the pentago this story of mcnamara, his intelligence, toughness, in somes his arrogance, and then terrible mistakes ofheietnam war. i watched very closely. i kn mcnamara and his family since i was a boy. i think my owpersonal feelings are wt gifted people day were when they came t washingt working for jack knedy. they bieved they cld really eate a new coury, such big draams. they got caught in the vietnam war. mcnamara himself was s confent he was going to get through this witntelligence, fige it out. he cann figure this out. he got deeper and deeper in this tunnel of evietnam. i tched as a young man the burden wehing on him, all the fhers. but nothing aboumcnamara's death, -- when ihinkabout namara's death, human beings make stakes he made a tric one. he tried the restof hisife to uerstand what went wng and to aton for what he did. tavis: the autho of the n novel, "the incremen," david ignatius. up next, from thnew fm "the hurt locker," actor jeremy renner. sy with us. in thecritically acclaimed new film, nd her locker," -- "the rt locker," jeremy renner

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robert mcnamara ran the pentagon for the cuban missile crisis and most of the vietnam war. became a champion of the poor of the world. we look back at his life. >> he had an unusual journey. he was one of the cleverest men to ever serve an american president. in 1960, he was a hugely successful businessman. he was the first head of the ford motor co. not to be a member of the ford family. >> i have asked robert mcnamara to assume the responsibilities -- >>> the newly elected president kennedy invited him to become secretary of defense for a fraction of his salary at ford motor company. the call him arrogant and a machine on legs as he sat out to modernize the pentagon. two years later came the cuban missile crisis. not amara was at the side of kennedy as they faced down the russian attempt to station nuclear missiles in cuba. -- mcnamara was at the site of kennedy as they faced down the russian attempt to station nuclear missiles in cuba. the world had never come closer to nuclear war. >> rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. >> he ov

mcnamara set down his drink and stepd outside.rtist immediately grabbed him,restl him to the railing and pued him over the side. th is not a etaphor. somedy actually, apparently tried to throw robert mcnamara overboard. joining us now is paul hendrickson, university pennsylvania professorho uncovered the namara ferryboat sty and writes abo it in his book, "the lving and ea the five lives of a lost war." mr. hendrickson, thank yofor joining us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> did joe galloway accurately recount what happened on that ferry to martha's vineyard? >> yes, aolutely f all ip tents and purposes. i think mcnamara's posion hanging at bart in a slouched, relaxed way, this is what the artist told me. he saidthat alone drove him crazy. the artist saw him from about 20 feet away in this lunch rm and he lked at mcnama and all of thater aut the vietnam war ca up. here was thi guyoing over to e vineyardfor his weekend holidadain his sporting togs and in thisurderous ragebegan awawng up his throat. as the ararti s sai to me, i i n

. >> recently robert mcnamara died. a lot of different publications, editorials and columns, it is hard because we don't have them in front of us, but a lot of people made apologies for robert mcnamara, saying he was basically a good man and that if things did not go well in vietnam, but he did the right things. if you see different sides. on the right off and they said he was a better man than the left thought he was. kilmeade figure this out. where do you put mcnamara? >>-- held me figure this out? >> anybody would say the left has been hard on robert mcnamara's, anybody who had third opinions in the time of algeria's. if your view about the vietnam war was that it was a horrible disaster for this country, ending in dishonor, your view of robert mcnamara, even though he may have done good things at the world bank, cannot be that great. if you supported the vietnam war and you believed that if only robert mcnamara and kissinger and nixon -- let us not forget lyndon johnson was the person who escalated the vietnam war,

bert mcnamara cam to eody th pain and lingering disquiet ericans still feel about vietnam. his later years, he repeatedly asked the big american question -- how should this country use its vast military power? to what purpos? >> h much evil must we do in order to do good? recognize that * you will have to engagin evil. >> that questionesonates today louy as ever. rhaps tha is why it is curious, brilliant, uncomfortablean continues t fascinate americ >> new research suggts the symptoms of alzheimer's disease coulbe reversed drinki too big cups of coffee every day or, since we're talking to y from london, 14 cups of tea. erican neurosciences running tests on mice have found caffeine improves memory and mental abities. as clinical trials alzheir's patients will be needed to find out if it has the samfacts on humans. thousands of michael jackson fans are descended on los angeles to collect tickets for the morial services on tuesday. a lst 1.6 million people registered oline for a chance to rent -- chance to win 17,000 tickets. with demand on at scale, most people will be disapp

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where do you put robert mcnamara? >> this would be -- anybody who was writing about how nigh yeef -- naive the left was about alger hiss, let's say in the 1970's when people were writing about it a lot, would say the left has been too hard on robert mcnamara. your view is basically conditioned by your view of what the vietnam war was. if your view about the vietnam war was that it was a horrible disaster for this country, ending in dishonor. , your view of robert mcnamara, though he may have done good things at the world bank, can't be that great. if you support 24ed vietnam war -- if you supported the vietnam war and believed that if only mcnamara and henry kissinger and richard nixon, let us not forget, lyndon johnson was the person who escalated the vietnam war. but that war went on longer under kissinger, and nixon than under lyndon johnson. so you can't, if you were opposed to the vietnam war, you can't think well of mcnamara, but if you're somebody who believes the vietnam war, for instance, the right today beli

mcnamara drove that decision. i know when to slow down -- and he was right, i was wrong. but his legacy is not going to be the world bank. it will be vietnam. and it is time for him to have said it was wrong, but he was part of the wrong he was done. >> was a tragic figure, charles? >> i think in many ways. it is interesting colby remembers his tenure of the world bank, because others don't. i have a different take. i think everything he touched went wrong. at the world bank he had the idea of a huge influx of capital into the poor countries -- tanzania -- it completely ruined the countryside and the agriculture because it favored the urban areas to the point of where the farmers of tanzania planted the crops upside down as a way to protest. >> it has been used before by people on the right, and it is false. tanzania had the highest literacy rate on the continent because of the world bank and the story that has been passed originally was just false. >> let me just turn to the subject of vietnam, the subject with robert mcnamara. from a human point of view, to see somebody

robert mcnamara served as the secretary under presidents kennedy and johnson.s so closely associated with the conflict in vietnam, that come called mcnamara's car. he waited 30 years before revealing his misgivings publicly. mcnamara was president of ford motor company before backing defense secretary. robert mcnamara was 93 years old. >>> coming up, the latest sports from espn news. you're watching "america this morning" from new york and los angeles. introducing listerine® tota care. everything you need to strengthen teeth, help prevent cavities, and kill germs. introducing 6 in 1 listerine® ttal care. the most complete mouthwash. and to complete your oral care routine add superior plaque removal in places that are hard to reach with reach® toothbrush #and floss. get the complete routine, reach® andlisterine total care. it's much easier to find money at esurance. great auto insurance rates and lots of discounts! got insurance already? save more with esurance's "switch & save (tm) discount"! it also pays to shop online. you get esurance's "fast 5 (tm) discount

robert mcnamara's role in history.ake a look coming up. >> welcome back to "world news now." our coverage of the mhael >> welcome back to "world news now." our coverage of the michael jackson memorial service continues from los angeles. they have been coming from far and wide, fans of michael jackson, some with tickets to today's memorial service, many without. one of the lucky ones to win the internet ticket lottery is lisa quiller of north carolina. she thought she had no chance but she won. >> so i get on the computer and sure enough staples come up. my fingers was just nervous. i couldn't get it clicked on and it came up, congratulations. i just hollered through the house. >> she had trouble finding an affordable flight on short notice. she booked one but didn't have enough time to pack. she left for l.a. with just the clothes on her back. you're hearing similar stories all over town. one man flew in from barcelona even though he doesn't have a ticket. >> you were saying the notion of this being a circus will be wi

robert mcnamara drove that decision. i was the to try to slow it down, as a matter of fact, and i think he was right and i was wrong. but i did it on behalf of the u.s. government. but his legacy is not going to be the world bank. it will be vietnam. and it is time for him to have said it was wrong, but he was part of the wrong. >> was in a tragic figure, charles? >> i think in many ways. i think it is interesting colby remembers is 10 -- his tenure of the world bank, because many don't. i have a different take. everything he touched went wrong. at the world bank had this idea of a huge influx of capital into the poor countries. in a tan nia -- in tanzania, and completely ruined the countryside and agriculture because it favored by urban areas to the point where the farmers in tanzania planted the crops upside-down as a result. >> that is a false example used before by people on the right -- falls. tanzania had the highest literacy rate in the continent because of the intervention of the world bank and the story that has

>> i thinkthat it's very portant for robert mcnamara to speak out abt these issues. rose: i do,oo. >> inow he has very, vy strong feelings. i knowhe said thgs to me in private. ment >> i'll kl you if y repeat them! >> and, in fact, i won't repeat them out of respect for him and our relationsp. but i know that he has spent a fe... a large fraction of a lifen plic service. d he has learned a lot of thingsrom thatife. and it's imrtant that he brings that knowledge to bear. >> ros but he isot doing it total. you know he's not, earl, ce on! >> now wait a second.... >> rose: you just said that! >> i thin that he cld be more outspoken. >> he specifically thinks i should comment on th iraq situation. in the book,in retrospecand in the other two books i drew lessons. but those lessons can be applied to iraq. let people read the books and apply e lessons. i'm not going to critice my president when 's in a war. up into but let me just suggest to you thaone of the imrtant things tt you underlined other than empathy and other than counication is that we need to ha public debate a

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. >> former defense secretary robert mcnamara died lt week. >> our fire power of advante is immense why ouldn't weexpect to aceve ailitary advantage? >> robert mcnamara, secretary of defense under president kennedy andohnson directed american participion in the war in vietnam. tually he was right about th aantage. in ft, the u.s. prevailed in every major battle. our amerin soldiers, marines, herrmann, won the batt but the unit stas lost the war. he lateraid we were wrg, terribly ong, and we owe it to future generatio to explain you worked for him at the world ba. >> i workewith him, u.s. representative on the ard and he was the preside at the time and i saw a lot of him almost every day. i think in some ways to try to compensate for wh he did as secretary of defense. not sure he'd she di but he brought his considerable energy and talent. driving the institution and the world to increase assistae to the poor china would not be ere it is toy as a world power were it not for the world bank bringing its into the economic familof nations encouraging development robert mcnama drove the decisi

robert mcnamara served under president johnson. in later years, mcnamara said he has deep misgivings about viet nam. he died in the district. he was 93. >>> tens of thousands of michael jackson fans flocked to los angeles to say a final farewell. >> clear and sunny skies today. >> jeff fisher talks about the murder of steve mcnair. p >>> there is new information about the maneuvering regarding michael jackson's estate. a judge has made an important ruling. >> police in los angeles are bracing before huge crowds at the staples center. we're joined with the latest. >> michael jackson died with hundreds of million dollars in debt. it is his attorney and a family friend who will be in charge of that estate. a judge ruled his mother should not administer his estate, valued at more than $230 million. another court battle is gearing over custody of his children. a friend of his wife's responded to reports that she may seek custody. >> that has changed now with michael's death. >> fans now prepared to say goodbye to the king of pop. >> my

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here's bob mcnamara still hiding. >> rose: access, access. i mean, can you go back and back and back if you don't have access? >> well, of course if they won't let you in the door, you.... >> rose: can't do it. >> you can't do it. but, you know, you can do it. when i was working on the last bush book, there was a general that wouldn't talk to me. i'd call, i'd leave messages, talk to people who worked for him, no, no answer, just radio silence. so i found out where he lived and add, so, the age of 64 or 63 me, i went and knocked on his door, there's a perfect time to knock on somebody's door if they're home and it's about 8:30 at night because they've had dinner. if they don't have plans maybe you can get to talk to him. >> rose: gay talese was just on this program and we taped a show a few minutes before you came on in which he was very critical of washington coverage saying there's too much access. in washington everybody parties with everybody, they go to the same parties, they scratch everybody's back and that that's not in the best inter

and mcnamara, of course i do. he had about two or three cartons of newspapers, newsletters, hand bills, all kinds of, you know, old documents basically about the contract buyers league. he also had the original complaints from the two federal suits. he had several depositions from those suits. he even had a list of contract buyers league members including their current phone numbers and addresses. something he'd compiled a few years earlier for a reunion. and so, you know, if you're a historian and someone tells you, oh, sure, i've got everything, you're very, very happy so i was, you know, amazed and delighted. and i knew right then that i had my story. i had the story and i had the beginnings of the sources i would need to tell it. i didn't stop there. i went on to interview about 90 people. i went -- i looked in a lot of archives. i turned over a lot of rocks, i'd say, to get really the full story. but between the scrapbooks that my brothers saved and the papers that jack mcnamara saved, the story was there. so

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robert mcnamara has died. in the middle box, mark sanford returning to work after spending a long weekend in florida with his family. in the bottom box, a news conference in milwaukee about a massive fire at a meat packing plant. this thing is huge. they are morning folks within a 1 mile radius to leave the area because of toxic fumes. martha: many of us have ridden on the monorail in disney world. it is not somewhere where you feel unsafe. this morning officials are trying to feel like -- trying to discover what happened when one train slammed into the back of another one, killing the driver. police have not released the 911 calls from the scene. >> what happened? >> 1 monorail was waiting at the station and there was another one coming up and there was a collision. this is just outside the station. >> are there any injuries? >> i do not know at this time. very likely. martha: shannon butler is standing by with our fox affiliate in florida. any idea how this happened? >> osha is on scene right now. investigat

inin004 mcnamara me on "h"hdball" and chris asske him to compare vietetna t to the wan iraq.. here is what he said. >> military action. therefore, t tod i believethat we m mus recognize the sisire o ee iraraqi peoplele to suorort tionalism, and we m mus help themem dso, which means wee mus turnrnver the gernment to themm as fast ass we anan. i think thatat'shehe u.s. picy today. i hopet is. >>mcnamara f foowed his t terer inhehe defensededepament with 12 years presidentofofhe world d ba w whe heedicated himself to irereing aid to ororer nations. c connued working on issues of globaldedevepment and nuclear didisaamamen through hi retirement. bert mcnamara was 93 3 s old. but even with caiuium, vitamin d, and exercise, i l got osteoporosis. i ner ought i could do re than stop my bone loss. then my doctor ldld mi could, with once-monthly niva. boniva w wksks with your body to helstop and reverse boneoss. studies show, after onyear on boniva, ninene out of n women stopped and versed their bone lossss. i owow i d. (announcer) don't take boniva if you haveow blood calcium, severere

former defense secretary robert mcnamara has died.he unpopular conflict was sometimes called robert mcnamara's war. he later admitted that the administration was terribly wrong to have pursued military action beyond 1963. before joining the kennedy administration, he was the president of the ford motor company. robert mcnamara it was 93 years old. >> president barack obama and his russian counterpart announced a series of important agreements. they have reached a preliminary deal to reduce nuclear weapons and are setting up a commission to work on issues from the economy to terrorism. brian morris has the story. >> as the presidents of the net states and russia met in moscow, the iciness seemed to be melting a bit. >> we agreed that the relationship between russia and the united states has suffered from a sense of drift. we resolved to reset relations. >> despite the fact that in several hours we cannot remove the burden of all of the problems, we have agreed that we will go forward. >> they signed an agreement on cutting back nuclear

mcnamara denies missile today. the next morning, ev dirksen, majority leader of the republicans in the senate, called for my resignation and called for rerun of the election because the president had won under false pretenses. i was devastated. so i went over to see the president. look, mr. president, i came down here to help you and all i have done engender requests for resignation and i'm prepared to resign. he said, hell with it, bob. we all put our footh in the mouth occasionally. forget about it. it will blow of and it did. i love him for it. c-span: the same man you mention, arthur sylvester, your press spokesman -- >> yes. c-span: allegedly, i don't think you can find the quote specifically, said at one time the government has a right to lie. >> i think he probably said it. i would have hard time putting my finger on the quote but i think he probably said it. and if he did, i'm not positive of this, but i think it was in connection with the cuban missile crisis or one of those crises, and, this is a terrible

robert mcnamara has died. he served as defense secretary under john f.nedy who recruited him and lyndon johnson. he was vilified for his role in vietnam, though in his later years conceded that the u.s. had made a mistake there robert mcnamara was 93 years old. >>> the government's cash for clunkers program is underway across the nation. and while dealerships are expecting to be busy, scammers are already busy trying to take advantage of the new program. tonight we'll tell you everything you need to know so you don't fall victim. >>> and what was it that so many people saw and heard overnight in northern baltimore and harford counties? we'll tell you what police and norm thinks it was. >>> last night i gave you a 2- degree guarantee for today of 85 degrees. the high today 86. we hit our 2-degree guarantee seven days in a row. we'll try to make it eight. the complete forecast coming up in just a couple of minutes. [ applause ] >> the dow gained today, but investors are still worried about how long this recession will last. the dow gain in order than 44 po

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