Reminiscences of Roger Hilsman : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Government official, educator.

Scope and Contents

World War II service: Burma, Merrill's Marauders, Office of Strategic Services, rescue of father from Japanese prisoner of war camp 1945; director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department, 1961-63, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, 1963-64: Cuban missile crisis, Diem coup, early United States involvement in Vietnam, resignation; professor, Columbia University: teaching, Students for a Democratic Society, Columbia crisis 1968; Robert Kennedy campaign; candidacy for Congress 1972; impression of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Lyndon Johnson.

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Hilsman, Roger.
• Interviews.
• King, Dennis, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1968.
• Student movements.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of State.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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