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Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- II -- 2 I stayed there off and on for about two years. Then I left the government in 1959, went to work for my father in Airways Engineering. Then in 1962 I got a call from the director of AID, Far East, a guy named [Seymour] Janow, asking me
  • Phillips’ work in Laos; getting involved with the AID mission in Vietnam; reorganizing AID in relation to its rural efforts; a strategic hamlet program; organizational problems in the U.S. military approach in Vietnam; working with what
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Diem assigned him to the civic action project. So we worked on the organization of that and got a decree through, and sent some of his people over to the Philippines to take a look at what they were doing, and worked up a program to present to the AID