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Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb
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- : I was born the twenty-first of June, 1918, in Marquette, Michigan. My father was at that time the principal of the high school there, and he later, when I was two years old, moved down to the Detroit area. When I was four he moved to River Rouge
- you've had a campaign going on that had looked pretty negative in the eyes of the press--the way the press projected it across the nation, in Resurrection City and in the Poor People's Campaign itself. And then when you have someone else who
- on with the White House, and this was written up by Mary McGrogry, who was a columnist in the local press. Mary, I guess, was there--I aon't know. Anyway, she wrote it up, the implication being quite clear that Mr. Eisenhower was all clear in his mind