A question-and-answer session followed the discussion.
Audience members said they enjoyed the open, candid tone of the event.
“McNamara is one of the wittiest, most intelligent guys I’ve ever heard speak,” said Joey M. Hanzich ’06.
When asked, McNamara declined to comment on America’s present treatment of Iraq, saying that as a former secretary of defense, it wasn’t his position to criticize the president’s current foreign affairs policy.
But he did assert his stance on nuclear weapons—a statement that received the biggest applause of the evening.
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“We’ve got to get rid of the damn things.” McNamara said.