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Robert S. McNamara, the focus of The Fog of War, an Academy Award–nominated documentary directed by Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line), served as secretary of defense under the two presidents who took the U.S. into Vietnam—John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. One of “the best and the brightest” of America’s leaders, he was a major figure in the war that left 58,000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese dead.