Oral history interview with Lawrence B. Wilkerson, 2011.

Biographical Note

Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Retired Colonel, United States Army.

Scope and Contents

Born: June 15, 1945, Gaffney, SC; education: Bucknell University, U.S. Army Armor School, Naval War College; career: executive Assistant to Admiral Stewart A. Ring, United States Navy Pacific Command; Director, United States Marine Corps War College; special assistant to Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-1993; policy planning staff member under Ambassador Richard Haass; Chief of Staff to Secretary of State, 2002-2005; discussions: war crimes, military and national security history, National Security Act of 1947, U.S. foreign policy, relationship between Departments of State and Department of Defense, torture; reminiscences: Vietnam War, testimony before 9/11 Commission, United Nations resolution on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Bush administration realpolitik.

Subjects

• Abu Ghraib Prison.
• Gavrilis, George, 1972- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay oral history project.
• Interviews.
• Iraq War, 2003-2011.
• Lawrence B. Wilkerson--Interviews.
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
• National security--United States--History--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prisoners of war--Abuse of--United States.
• Torture.
• United States. Army--Interviews.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. Department of State.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
• War crimes.

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