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  • , Stars and Stripes. I could hardly, on the strength of a Stars and Stripes article, go to my commanding officer and ask for transportation home. But in about five days the official cable from the Governor caught up with me. F: Your thoughts
  • was concerned--we sent a buck slip over to the Air Force to ask them to give a report on the case--until we got a telegram from the grandfather that said that the boy had died as a result of the hazing he had been given by his sergeant. kind of jazzed things up
  • it was rather technical. While I was at Calumbia the opportunity to. go to Fort Sill came up. I put in for it and I was sent to Sill. another, Oklahoma. F: Yes. M: Not Texas. F: No, well, it's just across the river. (Laughter) I came fram one hot cauntry
  • of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back
  • who was going to give the main talk that night. Martin Luther King won, and I remember his wife sang the 'Star Spangled Banner" because I sat next to her that night at the dmnner, and President Johnson on the other side of her. But while waiting
  • the space program? Can you recall the genesis of the--? B: I think once the Russians had proven to the world that they had been able to send a man into space, it shocked the living hell out of us. look back now today, I don't know whether it's worth
  • , and he succeeded in developing ideas that were useful to us. And we had a good minority section from the Republicans, had an all-star cast from the Senate. We did succeed in getting some real work done. B: When did you first begin to think of Mr
  • -star general's, and professors from the Harvard School of Business--management techniques were just as important. And we found that mismanagement in the Defense Department was just as important a contributor to our technological gap as money
  • --did you have any evidence to believe that he thought that maybe his star lay with another group within the party, namely the Kennedys? W: I think there's no question about that, that Moyers was very interested in Moyers and he realized
  • award some- where and would I send a letter or telegram of congratulations. And it was almost as if they were a little afraid to ask me. course, I did so. Of I meant it in a very positive way, and I know they were very grateful about it. But I think