Every old man is a history book, and this is one of the most wonderful

Brady 2022-03-20 08:01:25

Decades of life, personally experienced more or less major events/sights. Every elderly person can have more time to think and summarize their past life.
And Robert McNamara's life is indeed one of the most wonderful. As a World War II veteran, as Ford's chief strategist, and as the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and after his final retirement, as the president of the World Bank, what he has experienced is unimaginable to us ordinary people.

By the way, the 38-minute interviews included in the DVD's tidbits are equally wonderful. If you watch DVDrip, you may miss these.

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  • Tina 2022-03-20 09:03:09

    A didactic personal memoir of McNamara. The film won the Oscar for Best Documentary that year, and has always been a high-profile savior of the world police. No way, Li Paifang is the lifelong career of a bitch. so, never say never.

  • Beaulah 2022-03-20 08:01:25

    McNamara's turbulent personal history is intertwined with his equally turbulent American and world history during his tenure, and everything learned in the first ten lessons is for the conclusion of the final lesson: "You can't change human nature."

The Fog of War quotes

  • [last lines]

    Interviewer: Is it the feeling that you're damned if you do, and if you don't, no matter what?

    Robert McNamara: Yeah, yeah, that's right. And I'd rather be damned if I don't.

  • Robert McNamara: If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning.