Robert McNamara Autographs
Robert Strange McNamara (/ˈmæknəˌmærə/; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
McNamara graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Business School. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After World War II, Henry Ford II hired McNamara and a group of other Army Air Force veterans to work for Ford Motor Company, reforming Ford with modern planning, organization, and management control systems. After briefly serving as Ford's president, McNamara accepted an appointment as secretary of defense in the Kennedy administration.
McNamara became a close adviser to Kennedy and advocated the use of a blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy and McNamara instituted a Cold War defense strategy of flexible response, which anticipated the need for military responses short of massive retaliation. During the Kennedy administration, McNamara presided over a build-up of U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam. After the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, the number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam escalated dramatically. McNamara and other U.S. policymakers feared that the fall of South Vietnam to a Communist regime would lead to the fall of other governments in the region.
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Traded items with a signature of Robert McNamara
The most expensive item with a signature of Robert McNamara (Robert McNamara JFK's Secretary of Defense Signed Kennedy FDC PSA Auto) was sold in March 2025 for $257.00 while the cheapest item (Robert McNamara Signed Card) found a new owner for $0.99 in November 2010. The month with the most items sold (9) was July 2009 with an average selling price of $10.50 for an autographed item of Robert McNamara. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2025 with $257.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.25 was November 2009. In average, an autographed item from Robert McNamara is worth $18.50.
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