Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara is a character in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Campaign
He is seen in the mission U.S.D.D. and joins Alex Mason and Jason Hudson and escorts them to the Pentagon and through it untill they reach the Defcon level, where before meeting John F. Kennedy, Hudson leaves and after a brief conversation between the President, he doesnt speak again.

Zombies
He is also a playable character in the new Zombie map Five, along with John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Fidel Castro. He is the seccond players character in Co-op and Online.

Trivia

 * McNamara is voiced by Robert Picardo.
 * McNamara seems to know some features in Nazi Zombies, like when a player gets Double Tap Root Beer he might say "Increases rate of fire by thirty percent" in a fast voice.
 * He is one of the three characters to appear in both "Campaign" and "Zombies" mode. The other two are Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy. Nixon is only seen in flashes in Single Player.
 * In Zombies, he appears to be experienced with weapons. When picking up a weapon, he will usually give a brief, but detailed description of it. For example, if an SMG is picked up, he will usually say "Automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges. Genius."
 * He seems to dislike Fidel Castro, agreeing that Joseph Stalin should've been the 4th playable character.
 * Some of his quotes have been featured in the Modern Warfare series.
 * Sometimes after killing a zombie, McNamara will say, "Lesson 2: Rationality will not save us", this is a reference to the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, in which Robert McNamara shares 11 lessons he learned during his time as Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and LBJ. This quote is the second lesson that McNamara tells the viewer in the movie, although it is regarding the prospects of nuclear war rather than a zombie outbreak.