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'Fog of War' Robert McNamara, dead at 93

6 July 2009 8:27 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Robert McNamara, the former secretary of defense, an executive of industry who was best known as the primary architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, died early this morning at age 93. The Washington Post reports McNamara died at home, and no cause of death was released. McNamara served the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, where he directed a U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia during the early years of a Vietnamese conflict that escalated into war that claimed 58,000 Americans' lives. According to the Post obituary, McNamara was president of Ford Motor Co. For 13 years after he left Washington in 1968, he was president of the World Bank. The Post

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Queen Elizabeth Planning To Meet Barack Obama

6 March 2009 2:21 AM, PST | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is planning an unofficial meeting with President Barack Obama. The 82-year-old royal will meet Obama when he comes to London next month to discuss the ongoing global financial crisis.

If the meeting goes ahead, it will be very unusual as Obama won't be on an official State visit. A source told Britain's The Times newspaper: "There is a wish to do these things as discreetly as possible in the first instance."

It is understood the president will meet the queen at London's Buckingham Palace on April 1, a day after he lands in England.

The queen has met 10 of Obama's predecessors - the only president who has been in office during her reign who she didn't meet was Lyndon B. Johnson.

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