After resigning as Sec of D......................McNamera becomes president of the World bank..........JFK gave him to option to be Sec of Treasury..............he didn't want to be another Alex Hamilton.............all bout the Benjamins..........


Kennedy offered McNamara the chance to be either Secretary of Defense or Secretary of the Treasury; McNamara came back a week later, accepting the post of Secretary of Defense on the condition of having the right of final approval in all appointments to the Department of Defense, with Kennedy replying: "It's a deal".^[15]