<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert McNamara">Robert McNamara</a> is named president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" id="mwAUs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> administration.