Rod MacArthur and The MacArthur Foundation
When his father had died at the age of 81 in 1978, most of his wealth had been left to the Foundation in the form of his sole ownership of the Bankers Life & Casualty Co. His longtime attorney, [...]
Recruitment by J. Roderick MacArthur
I put the Army in my rear-view mirror at the beginning of the 1970s and got busy. It was an eventful decade. I returned to work as a lawyer, this time for the newly formed law firm of Roan, [...]
Appendix 2 The Building of Britannica Online
1995 Britannica Online The Building of Britannica Online By Robert McHenry Former Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopaedia Britannica Introduction Had someone back about 1985 phrased his question, wittingly or not, “Has the Britannica been digitized yet?” the [...]
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments This book could not have been written without the help and support of family, friends, and colleagues at The Cliff Dwellers club in Chicago. My wife Cathy without complaint stoically put up with [...]
Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland
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1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance Testimony of William J. Bowe before U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC), Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee U.S. Senator Sam Ervin (D-NC) After I left the Army, Sen. [...]
Getting Short—The 1971 “Stop the Government” Protests
Getting Short - The 1971 "Stop the Government" Protest 1971 Helicopter lands troops at the Washington Monument during the "Stop the Government" May Day antiwar protest My three-year enlistment was coming up [...]
The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force on Military Surveillance 1974 Christopher Pyle at the US Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights Hearing on Military Surveillance In January 1970, Christopher Pyle, [...]
