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Legislative advisor and lobbyist for kissinger really by default because there was no such thing on the National Security council at the time. And when dick, and i was assistant to dick, when he took over the overall, that was all full of congressional relations because the subcommittee, the Foreign Affairs committee was holding a series of hearings, a major series of hearings on foreign commitments and overseas commitments of which the bases were a central part. So i became by default when dick left, the base study was my portfolio. I spent half of my time on the hell on what became a hill on...

Left, the base study was my portfolio. So i found myself spending half of my time on the hill on what became a major onslaught against the administrations the vietnam policy. This was sort of the forum for the end the war group at the time. And so gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that came up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. It was an opportunity for me because dick kaegel had a big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when dick departed i was the only guy there with...

Newtown bridge renamed for Vietnam war hero Frank Martin Mebs

Frank Mebs died using a bulldozer to extinguish a hilltop fire in Vietnam. On Monday, a fellow soldier awarded his family long overdue medals.

It might have seemed like just another ordinary day in Vietnam. The base was filled with battle-hardened U.S. Marines of the 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd