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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which he could bring support to bear to help our efforts. The program was originally called Third Country Aid, and it was basically aid from other countries, other than the United States, to help the government of Vietnam. very open-ended. The more
  • Vietnam
  • Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Flott -- II -- 7 instinctively resented the American pre-eminence in Vietnam, which had been their turf. In an emotional way they resented it. Now, to carry that to say the French government was planning coups is, I think
  • Vietnam
  • Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knowledge and judgment, but I can see how Lodge might quite honestly have had some concern--and of course, this was in July of 1963. I suppose it would be fair to say the State Department had not quite yet put in its first team on Vietnam. It did later
  • Vietnam
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C