Editing Robert McNamara (section)

==Personal life==
McNamara married Margaret Craig, his teenage sweetheart, on August 13, 1940. She was an accomplished cook, and Robert's favorite dish was reputed to be her [[beef bourguignon]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in the Kitchen, 1961 – Reprint 2013|page=10|url=http://whoswhointhekitchen.org|access-date=2019-08-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919112734/http://whoswhointhekitchen.org/|archive-date=2017-09-19|url-status=usurped}}</ref> [[Margaret McNamara]], a former teacher, used her position as a Cabinet spouse to launch a reading program for young children, [[Reading Is Fundamental]], which became the largest literacy program in the country. She died of cancer in 1981. Later that summer, her ashes were scattered by her family on a mountainside meadow at Buckskin Pass, near [[Snowmass Village, Colorado]].

The couple had two daughters and a son. Their son, [[Robert Craig McNamara]], who as a student objected to the Vietnam War, is a farmer in California.<ref>{{cite web|title=2001 Award of Distinction Recipients – College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences|url=http://www.caes.ucdavis.edu/connect/events/college-celebration/recipients/2001-award-of-distinction-recipients|publisher=[[University of California, Davis]]|date=2007-11-19|access-date=2015-07-21|quote=Craig McNamara is owner of Sierra Orchards, a diversified farming operation producing walnuts and grape rootstock. He is a California Agricultural Leadership Program graduate, American Leadership Forum senior fellow and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean's Advisory Council member. McNamara helped structure a biologically integrated orchard system that became the model for UC/SAREP ([[Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program]]) and created the FARMS Leadership Program, introducing rural and urban high school students to sustainable farming, science and technology. He was one of 10 U.S. representatives at the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606085440/http://www.caes.ucdavis.edu/connect/events/college-celebration/recipients/2001-award-of-distinction-recipients/|archive-date=2015-06-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== At Ford ===

When working at [[Ford Motor Company]], McNamara resided in [[Ann Arbor]], [[Michigan]], rather than the usual auto executive domains of [[Grosse Pointe]], [[Birmingham, Michigan|Birmingham]], and [[Bloomfield Hills]]. He and his wife sought to remain connected with a university town (the [[University of Michigan]]) after their hopes of returning to Harvard after the war were put on hold.

=== Alumnus of the Year ===

In 1961, he was named Alumnus of the Year by the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/alumni-year.html|title=Days of Cal – Alumni of the Year|website=sunsite.berkeley.edu|access-date=December 9, 2009|archive-date=January 3, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103023726/http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calhistory/alumni-year.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Attempted assault ===

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?75273-1/living-dead-robert-mcnamara ''Booknotes'' interview with Paul Hendrickson on ''The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War'', October 27, 1996], C-SPAN}}

On September 29, 1972, a passenger on the ferry to [[Martha's Vineyard]] recognized McNamara on board and attempted to throw him into the ocean. McNamara declined to press charges. The man remained anonymous but was interviewed years later by author [[Paul Hendrickson]], who quoted the attacker as saying, "I just wanted to confront (McNamara) on Vietnam.{{sfn|Hendrickson|1997}}

=== Final years and death ===
After his wife's death, McNamara dated [[Katharine Graham]], with whom he had been friends since the early 1960s.{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}} Graham died in 2001.

In September 2004, McNamara wed Diana Masieri Byfield, an Italian-born widow who had lived in the United States for more than 40 years. It was her second marriage. She was married to [[Ernest Byfield]], a former [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] officer and Chicago hotel owner, thirty years her senior, whose first wife, Gladys Rosenthal Tartiere, leased her 400-acre (1.6&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) Glen Ora estate in [[Middleburg, Virginia]], to John F. Kennedy during his presidency.{{sfn|Roberts|2004}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=ernest+Byfield+gladys+tartiere+kennedy&btnG=Search+Archives&hl=en&ned=us&scoring=a|date=1993-05-03|title=Obituaries; Gladys R. Tartiere, Philanthropist, Dies|access-date=October 27, 2015|archive-date=February 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215095214/https://news.google.com/home?as_drrb=a&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en|url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the end of his life, McNamara was a life trustee on the Board of Trustees of the [[California Institute of Technology]] (CalTech), a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security, a trustee of the [[American University of Nigeria]], and an honorary trustee for the [[Brookings Institution]].

McNamara died at his home in Washington, D.C., at 5:30&nbsp;am on July 6, 2009, at the age of 93.{{sfn|Page|2009}}{{sfn|Weiner|2009}} He is buried at the [[Arlington National Cemetery]] in [[Arlington County, Virginia]], with the grave marker also commemorating his wives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CghtY25hbWFyYRIGcm9iZXJ0/|website=ANC Explorer|accessdate=September 18, 2021|title=McNamara, Robert Strange|archive-date=October 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016165543/https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CghtY25hbWFyYRIGcm9iZXJ0/|url-status=live}}</ref>

McNamara's papers from his years as Secretary of Defense are housed in the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].