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Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX (961733k) Robert McNamara pointing to a map of Haiphong, North Vietnam showing the location of the oil depots that were bombed by U.S. Jets on June 29, 1966. Other depots as close as 2 miles from the centre of Hanoi were also hit destroying North Vietnam's oil supply. Robert McNamara Former United States Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, died in his sleep at his home in Washington in the early morning of Monday, July 6, 2009. McNamara, who served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was 93.