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- Stavast's tactical reconnaissance pilot duties in Southeast Asia, starting in May 1967; restrictions in flying reconnaissance missions; night versus day missions; navigation and radar; Gerald Vananzi; plans to bomb communications system sites…
- First acquaintance with Vietnam scene; General O'Daniel; Ed Lansdale; Diem in 1955; different characteristics of the Vietnam War; Saigon in the 1950s; reflections on various correspondents; American-French relations in the period; Ngo Dinh Diem…
- Walter Winchell incident; minimum wage bill; LBJ’s Dies Committee vote; John Nance Garner episode; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s work on the 1940 Congressional campaigns; Appropriations Committee appointment; race for the Senate in 1941; the I…
- Graham Martin; question of origin of the insurgency; Laos and the Laos Accords; General Trapnell; Averell Harriman; Pop Buell; division of American opinion on Diem; Buddhist troubles; the immolations; press corps; coup that overthrew Diem; Henry…
- Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the…