From a Washington Post obit by Jerrold Schecter headlined “Robert ‘Bud’ McFarlane, Reagan national security adviser, dies at 84”:
A taciturn retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Mr. McFarlane worked in the 1970s and 1980s at the nexus of the military and political establishment. He was the son of a congressman, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War.
