Editing Robert McNamara (section)

====Antiwar confrontation====
In November 1966, McNamara visited Harvard University to see [[Henry Kissinger]]; his car was surrounded by anti-war protesters who forced the automobile to stop.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=431}} The students refused to let the car move until McNamara debated their leader, Michael Ansara, the president of the Harvard chapter of [[Students for a Democratic Society]].{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=431}} McNamara agreed to the debate, and standing on the hood of his car answered the charge from a student in the crowd that the United States was waging aggression by saying the war started in 1954, not 1957, which he knew "because the [[International Control Commission]] wrote a report that said so. You haven't read it, and if you have, you obviously didn't understand it".{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=431}} When the student answered that he had read the International Control Commission's report and it did not say that, McNamara responded he had been a far better university student than his opponent, saying "I was tougher than you then and I'm tougher today! I was more courteous then, and I hope I'm more courteous today!".{{sfn|Langguth|2000|pp=286–287}} As McNamara continued to insult the crowd and the mood grew uglier, he fled into [[Quincy House (Harvard College)|Quincy House]], from which he escaped via underground tunnels to see Kissinger.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=287}} The confrontation with the students had shaken him, and it took half an hour before he was ready to address Kissinger's class.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=287}}