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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Subject > Vietnam (remove)
  • Contributor > Cross, James Underwood, 1925-2015 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the President [Johnson], or the then-Vice President, during later conversations that night with McNamara told McNamara that he wanted me to be assigned permanently as his pilot. Well, just--and I'm getting to the story about LeMay here in just a moment
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • was talking to you about last night. This is the fellow I want for my pilot." That was the first I knew that there had been any conversation about me. And I just was flabbergasted, you might say, because I had been selected for quite an honor, at least