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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to deal directly with the President, and he did on the matters of expenditures. G: On this Vietnam trip, you went out with [John Sherman] Cooper and several congressmen. Let me ask you to describe that-- B: Stuart Symington was along on that trip too. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . We did get excellent cooperation from Secretary of S t a t e Rusk and Secretary McNamara, who understood the problem and knew that it had to be cured. They knew that it had to be cured, because if it were not cured, we'd be forced to redeploy our
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • just didn't show up. Nobody gave us the right numbers. So the President was sick and all through that fall, I went out--didn't get into Viet Nam--but I went into Thailand with Senators Cooper and Symington. And the military and intelligence people