Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Title:
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Number of Pages:
71
Description:
Biographical information; a problem with overcrowding at Lackland Air Force Base; Vice President LBJ, Bobby Troutman, and Programs for Progress; details of the TFX F-111/General Dynamics issue; Senator Scoop Jackson and the McClellan committee; JFK visits the Space Medicine Facility in San Antonio in 1963; LBJ and Carl Rowan at the bier of JFK; JFK and LBJ styles compared; the Titan disaster at Searcy, Arkansas; General Buddy R. Daughtrey; the SST; General Curtis LeMay-McNamara relationship; the use of air power over North Vietnam; McNamara evaluated; possibility of a military victory in Vietnam; justification for U.S. policy in Vietnam; effectiveness of bombing North Vietnam; impact of the Vietnam War upon the air force; the B-70 issue; manned space stations (MOL); the Titan III; McNamara's contribution to the Defense Department; critique of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; closing bases; reasons for Zuckert's resignation; Harold O. Brown; the need for nuclear and non-nuclear forces; the all-volunteer army; the ABM issue; LBJ evaluated; developing Air Force One.
