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Collison whitehead, today live from noon to 3 00 p. M. Eastern n book tv on cspan 2. Next, katherine westmoreland, wife of william westmoreland, who commanded u. S. Forces in vietnam talks about her life as a military daughter, sister and spouse. She recounts her time living in vietnam and serving as a red cross nurses aide during the war. And she recalls hosting president s and first ladies as well as her friendship with bob and delores hope. This interview is from the west point center for oral history and is a little over an hour. Good evening, maam. Today is october 1, 2016, and were in the west point center for oral history, and im here with Katherine Stevens vandusen westmoreland but you go by kitzy. Could you spell your last name for the transcriber. Westmoreland. Thank you, maam. Tell me about your childhood. I know you grew up as a daughter of an army officer. Tell me what it was like growing up as an army brat . Katherine when i grew up in the army, i would say i grew from mi
Barbara, is herself a noted scholar sft kennedy era and clan. Shes also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned export, oral historian as well as written historian. And for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the ford years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and Russell Riley of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay seeing to the Obama Administration and well find out what the Trump Administration what their attitude is towards being interviewed for oral history when we get to that. In any case, barbara is going to take us forward and ill turn things over to her. Thanks so much, will. And of course to mel and stephanie for conceptualiz