becomes a mentor for jack murtha and tip o'neill is jack murthaou know, needs to be on these fact-findingrips around the world wherever there are appropriations for military movements. for instance, one of the very first ones in 1978, he finds himself back in vietnam, back in southeast asia, and he is meeting with various political figures as well as with military figures, and one of the things he does is he records on tape in a diary, his actions throughout the day. one of the things we have here in the collection are these wonderful transcripts of his tapes, also with his notations on them. one of the things it says here, the state department was stating that there were two or 3000 russians in vietnam today. they give approximately $500 million per year in aid. they were also talking about the claims of the vietnamese not being friendly to the russians and especially, being more friendly to the chinese. so basically a fact-finding trip, is what is going on here. trying to figure out who are the players on the ground in vietnam, still? wasicularly later on, he also trying to go to beirut

tip o'neill becomes a mentor for jack murtha and tip o'neill is said that, you know, jack murtha needs to be on these fact-finding trips around the world wherever there are appropriations for military movements. for instance, one of the very first ones in 1978, he finds himself back in vietnam, back in southeast asia, and he is meeting with various political figures as well as with military figures, and one of the things he does is he records on tape in a diary, his actions throughout the day. one of the things we have here in the collection are these wonderful transcripts of his tapes, also with his notations on them. one of the things it says here, the state department was stating that there were two or 3000 russians in vietnam today. they give approximately $500 million per year in aid. they were also talking about the claims of the vietnamese not being friendly to the russians and especially, being more friendly to the chinese. so basically a fact-finding trip, is what is going on here. trying to figure out who are the players on the ground in vietnam, still? particularly later on,