Top 10 Worst Cabinet Members
Sometimes those purported to be the best and the brightest are anything but. In the spirit of not making the same mistakes twice, TIME examines some of modern history's less-than-fabulous Cabinet appointments
McNamara was a really smart guy who made some really stupid mistakes. Tapped to be Defense Secretary while president of the Ford Motor Co., he was at President Kennedy's side during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also directed the increasing deployment of U.S. forces to Vietnam, even as he began to harbor doubts about the efficacy of the endeavor. Over the past two decades, McNamara has admitted lying to Congress about the justification for U.S. involvement in the war, and acknowledged that his errant judgment was partly responsible for nearly 60,000 American lives.
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