[Papers] / Fred Hoffman. c1961-1984.

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[Papers] / Fred Hoffman. c1961-1984.

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Comprised of newspaper clippings, news releases and notes, Hoffman's AP Pentagonal archive treats defense and political issues from the viewpoint of a wire service reporter. Files on Andrew J. Goodpaster, Maxwell D. Taylor, Lyndon B. Johnson, Henry A. Kissinger, and Richard M. Nixon are included. Materials cover such topics as energy-oil, intelligence-recon surveillance, the Iran-Iraq War, Vietnam, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NATO, U.S. rescue missions, chemical-biological warfare, mobilization, and presidential campaigns.

106 boxes ; 27 x 39 x 13 cm.

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Hoffman, Fred, 1924-

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Born in 1922, Fred Hoffman grew up in Boston, Mass. during the depression. He left Boston University after his junior year to serve with the U.S. Army on the Italian front during 1943-44. After a medical discharge, he began working as a reporter for United Press in Boston. Hoffman joined the Washington bureau of the Associated Press in 1949 and in 1961 was assigned as defense correspondent at the Pentagon. In 1984, he assumed the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affair...