Corrected typescript draft of his 1966 commencement address delivered at Chatham University

by Robert McNamara

$1,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

19pp. Typed, with significant pencil crossouts and additions. 4to. Item #320130 In 1966, the year of his daughter's graduation from Chatham University, Robert McNamara -- then serving as Secretary of Defense in the midst of Vietnam -- was asked to deliver the commencement address. The speech examined the role of protest in history and the effects of technological and social change. Although heavily criticized at the time for his

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