ground. McNamara’s fetishistic zest for quantification, which Lansdale had warned against, predictably had led him astray. Once the picture of steely certitude, the defense secretary would now weep at work, leading fellow officials to worry that he was “a very disturbed guy” on the verge of a “nervous breakdown.”7 Worried that McNamara was “cracking up” and might “pull a Forrestal,”8 Johnson eased him out at the end of November 1967 by announcing his appointment as president of the World Bank. Three months later, he would be replaced at the Pentagon by the consummate Democratic Party insider
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