"He [Robert McNamara] believed in what he did, and thus the morality of it was assured, and everything else fell into place. It was all right to lie and dissemble for the right causes. It was part of service, loyalty to the President, not to the nation, not to colleagues, it was a very special bureaucratic-corporate definition of integrity; you could do almost anything you wanted as long as it served your superior.” David Halberstam “How little do the lips and heart agree! How joyfully do people break their word! We both are strangers in a strange land.” Jean Racine
