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  • Date > 1986-09-12 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
  • were picking up, but you couldn't find the expenditures, not through the government expenditures. What was happening was old [Robert] McNamara was putting out--he'd go to a factory and give them a letter of intent saying, "I want so many tanks, I want