![]() ![]() Minute we got in the air wanted to hear it, how it sounded, how I borrowed the tapeįrom one of these people. Men that they had recorded on an identical type recorder. So, I had to borrowĪ tape from the press plane from one of the test World with us-admitted very tearfully to me that the recorder had failed. Wasn't going on the rest of the way around the Young kid I had there-I left him there for others to come and pick him up, he Then we got ready to get on the airplane and this Well, he did visit the troops in the hospital over in Cam Ranh Bay firstĪnd then came back and I had things set up and he made his speech. Put the cords up and microphones and so on. He made an early morning speech, but he wouldn't let me take but one recording man with me. We went to Thailand, and while in Thailand Locally there wasn't anybody because it was in my hands and I knew what I had. Lines." "How do you know who's on the other end?" Well, he had President, this cannot be anybody tapping your The system was breaking in or somebody was tapping the line, and I keptĪssuring him, "Mr. ![]() But this is a fact of commercial telephone System today there's an occasional click on the line. He said, "That's not supposed to be." Well, even in the finest It irritated him very much when he'd hear one. Telephone system, occasionally you'll hear noises on the line, a click or aĬhange in volume level or something. We had a very difficult job the next two years toīuild a system that suited him in that area. Behind that door was an iron security gate. ![]() It was an unmarked white front building with no columns but having a few steps that went up to a black door. MSG Joe Terrian gave me WHCA's official address which was 3248 M Street NW. The new location fronted on M St with two entrances one was WHCA personnel and the second was a non affiliated DCA office that had had no access to the rest of the building. It had been DC transits street car repair shop, a monstrous old facility. The brewery buildings were razed to make room for the new Kennedy Center which occupies that space today, the old shop moved from 26th St in May 1965. This is where WHCA had occupied a building that was in the Olde Heurich Brewing Company in Foggy Bottom. The old location was located at 26th Street and D Street NW. Now I had passed that hole in the ground at least a half a dozen times that morning. The old building had been razed and all that was left was a hole in the ground. Luckily, I had a contact number for MSG Joe Terrian, I called him, and he informed me that they had moved to a location in Georgetown, and Ft Monmouth gave me the wrong address. When I arrived in Washington, I tried to locate the address, not knowing the city I made several wrong turns and ended up in VA, several times so we decided to stop and get something to eat. I loaded my family in the car and headed to my new assignment in WHCA. I received my orders after I graduated Microwave repair school at Ft Monmouth to report to a street address in Washington D.C. ![]()
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