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Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was in--I think I--yes, I was in the AID picture myself at the national level, and therefore had a lot to do with the senior advisers of the AID picture that were in what we called in those days Rural Development. This was before OCO [Office of Civilian
  • Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter Braestrup
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for International Development, which is a part of the State Department. So I was observing the MACV thing from quite another angle, really, and was not ever anything important at all in the military aspects of MACV. G: What was AID doing in Vietnam in those days
  • McGarr, Charles Timmes and Paul Harkins as commanders of Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) and later Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV); Jacobson's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; the 1963 coup in Vietnam