by Kai Bird
John W. McDonald, Jr., 3/8/83
George McGhee, 6/14/83
Donald F. McHenry, 3/12/82
Robert S. McNamara, 3/7/90
Martin Mendelsohn, 8/21/84
Elizabeth Luce Moore, 10/21/83
Maurice “Tex” Moore, 10/21/83
David Newsom, 2/15/84
James E. O’Brien, 1/85*
Robert Oliver, 1/15/85*
Sir Con O’Neill, 2/1/84*
Marcel Ophuls, 4/13/85
Christopher Paine, 10/9/86
Mrs. Mary Paulsen (formerly Mrs. Mary Weicker), 8/7/85
Judge David W. Peck, 9/20/84
John Pehle, 8/9/84
Mrs. John “Madge” Pendelton, 7/18/82
Martin Peretz, 4/14/86
Howard Petersen, 8/30/82
Walter L. Pforzheimer, 7/8/84
Francis Plimpton, 3/16/82; 6/23/82
Mrs. Pauline Plimpton, 3/16/82
Milt Pollen, 8/21/84*
Marcus Raskin, 4/28/85
Joseph Rauh, 11/1/83
James Reston, 8/9/84
Mahmoud Riad, 11/22/83,
Gerhardt Riegner, 12/16/83*
Mary Ellen Crane Rossiter, 10/31/87
James Rowe, Jr., 10/12/83
Dean Rusk, 12/16/87; 11/17/82
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 12/6/85
Helmut Schmidt, 12/14/83*
Lord Shawcross, 2/2/84*
Saul Sherman, 2/3/84
Benjamin Shute, 6/24/83
Gary Sick, 8/5/85
Davidson Sommers, 7/20/84
Drexel Sprecher, 5/25/84, 7/11/84
Michael Sterner, 8/14/84
Dietrich Stobbe, 11/22/83*
Phil Stoddard, 12/12/84
I. F. Stone, 1/15/82
Shepard Stone, 3/1/84, 3/3/84*
Jack Sunderland, 9/25-26/84*
Maxwell Taylor, 11/7/83
Telford Taylor, 11/11/82
Stefan Thomas, 2/27/84, 2/25/84*
Thomas Troy, 4/4/86
Cyrus Vance, 10/10/85
Eric Warburg, 3/10/86
Mrs. Frederick Warburg, 4/10/84
Bethuel M. Webster, 12/4/85
Herbert Wechsler, 10/23/81*
Albert Wedemeyer, 11/11/83
Senator Lowell Weicker, 3/5/85
Langbourne M. Williams, 4/1/86
Note: Those interviews marked with an asterisk were conducted by a former colleague. In addition, I have consulted scores of oral-history interviews on file at the various archives.
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