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Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C.-, 397) and regulations _-0'. I) ' I ._ issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, /;7,;tifvi; /L_ ,hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the thing, but he didn't do it and it just went from bad to worse. In the meantime, we started out--for example, one of the kinds of programs we had was a program of distributing an improved breed of piglets to farm families in the center, many of whom had
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Adams -- I -- 9 thirtieth of January 1968, I sort of went back to my hole with my captured documents and POW reports and continued working on Viet Cong and NVA strength and found, incidentally, that there was an enormous number of new units popping up
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I June White, of Madison, Connecticut, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of a personal interview
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ..("'15 IM16",",- II/IILT , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the propdsed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ._ issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, /;7,;tifvi; /L_ ,hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • are of adopting any course of action. And having done that, we then come down and recommend what we think is right. to follow is this: And I might say that the rule that we try If I were president of the United States, would I follow the advice that is being
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at that period was in the role of advisers officially; [we] did not have full-scale army combat units there. But MACV was filling an advisory role to the Vietnamese military and, through the MACV reps in the province was carrying out something
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there. there wasn't anything. man for the job. When he went in in 1965, But that's his forte and they had the right He loves to build big buildings and great big units and empires, because he thinks finally you can overpower this intelligence problem if you can
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • In accordance with the provlslons of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Thomas H. Moorer of Eufaula, Alabama do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Joseph W. Alsop., of Bedford, Massachusetts, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • spell that, sir? D: D-A-C--was the political commissar for the Saigon area, and just before the Tet Offensive he went around and visited all of the guerrilla units in the outskirts of Saigon and around Saigon, armed with the reports of how many
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . But the first time I ever had any prolonged participation was when he invited me down to the Ranch about 1957 to brief him on the strategic posture of the United States with particular emphasis on the posture a~~ capabilities of the Strategic Air Command
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but I think I worked with seven different directors of information or ministers of information, depending on the title of the department in that particular government. A couple of those had been educated in the United States. Nguyen Ngoc Linh had been
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Don Oberdorfer of Washington, D . C . do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the Soviets, of course, were doing the identical thing with their trawlers, of which, as I recall, they had twenty-five or thirty, and not only were they doing peripheral reconnaissance of the United States and of the coastlines of our allies, but also
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that time? What I suppose you could list them if we had several days, but maybe you can equal Francis Bator's eighteen hours here. K: I won't do that. ~: It's worth your discussing those six weeks as a unit, I think. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which was when Dean Acheson was brought in as a backstaits mediator. F: Did the fact that you and Ralph Bunche strategically located in the United Nations act as an advantage to us other than Bunche's sort of personal attributes, or did he disassociate
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was dead but before Kennedy's body was removed, and nobody made any attempt to follow him, although he was then president of the United States. He left, actually, just minutes--my recollection is--before the death was announced. reasons. And of course