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Philip Taubman

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The War Hawk Who Wasn’t

Newly discovered documents reveal Robert McNamara’s private doubts about Vietnam.

by William Taubman, Philip Taubman via The Atlantic
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on September 18, 2025

McNamara at War: A New History

William Taubman, Philip Taubman

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Robert McNamara

An American Reckoning

What lessons can we take from Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War?

by Ben Rhodes via New York Review of Books on February 26, 2026

Reagan and supporters at a campaign rally in 1984.

Reagan Resurgent?

Commentary on America’s 40th president often misses how the Gipper blended principles and pragmatism for a truly conservative statesmanship.

by Anthony Eames via Law & Liberty on December 4, 2024

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