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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • criticism, To strengthen the team and also to meet the "Look here, why are you sending a general over to this highly complex diplomatic post?" he then got [U. Alexis] Alex Johnson to agree to go as my deputy, which was a very gallant thing for Alex to do
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • teaching post, which was at Williams College, early in 1963. In the late fall of 1962, the directorship of the Agency for International Development became vacant. President Kennedy, after surveying the problems, decided that the right man to put