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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then, there were delays in getting that information through. Some of it had to find its way by way of a traveler coming out. going to Mexico and There wasn't a great deal of instant communication because of the restraints of travel and communication and so
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of you? F: Well, we had his two servants in the back seat, but one was Chinese and one was a trusted Vietnamese. to travel with Perruche. They had no advance knowledge of my plan I did not feel in great danger, but I pru- dently would not have driven