Involvement with the French in Vietnam; problems in the 1950s; General Sam Williams; counterinsurgency; the Special Forces; Bay of Pigs; observations and proposals after trips to Southeast Asia; impressions of JFK; special Counterinsurgency Group; views on Eisenhower's methods; CIA and the military; impressions of General Harkins, Bradley and Patton; Laotian settlement negotiated by Harriman; Taylor-Rostwo recommendations; Acre of Diamonds; reflections on Diem; conference during Cuban Missile Crisis; changeover in NATO command; effect of Vietnam War on military role on the other side of the world; racial situation; criticism of the way we fought the war in Vietnam; visit to Ranch with LBJ while VP
Previous
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Next
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb