Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas

Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas
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Pot Shards is a memoir, based on the author's memorable experiences. He served as a CIA's agent on the island of Saipan, during ten years in Japan, a tour in Burma, four years tied up in the Vietnam War, two tours in Korea, the second time as ambassador, and ten years in the White House, where he worked for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. Bush.

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Donald P. Gregg. Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas

Preface

Thanks and Recollections

PART ONE: EARLY LIFE. 1. Abenaki Scalps and a Street Fight in Circleville

2. Texas Talk and a Takeshita Takedown

3. Fraternities and Philosophy at Williams

PART TWO: INTELLIGENCE. 4. Jumping Out of an Airplane for the CIA

5. The Stunning Young Woman in a Crowded Taxi

6. A Glimpse of the Infinite from an Idaho Blue Jay

7. Jack Downey’s Tragic Mission

8. Happy Years in Japan

PHOTO GALLERY I

9. JFK and Vietnam

10. Lurching Toward Catastrophe

11. Burmese Days

12. Searching for a Crippled Boy

13. Fort Apache

PHOTO GALLERY II

14. The Abduction of Kim Dae-jung

15. President Park Chung-hee: Too Long in Power

16. The Pike Committee and the Carter White House

PART THREE: WHITE HOUSE YEARS. 17. The White House Years with Reagan and Bush

18. Travels with Bush

19. Denis Thatcher and the Missing Brassiere

PHOTO GALLERY III

20. The Puzzling Case of Richard Nixon

21. The Finnish Connection

PART FOUR: DIPLOMACY AND ATTENDANT TRAVAILS. 22. Ambassador in Seoul

PHOTO GALLERY IV

23. Iran-Contra: Snakes in the Cellar for Seven Years

24. October Surprise

PART FIVE: BACK TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR. 25. Korea Society Years

26. Kids to Korea

27. Epiphany in Long Beach

28. Six Trips to Pyongyang

PHOTO GALLERY V

29. Jazz

30. A Stint at Goldman Sachs

31. The Dangers of Demonization

Gratitude

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His hair was glossy, his handshake firm and dry, his glance hard and inquisitive. The few seconds in which I had his full attention left me with an indelible impression. That was John F. Kennedy at the White House, 1962, talking about counterinsurgency and the Vietnam War.

The CIA officer’s hair and eyelashes were burned away, his skin was charred, but his eyes were open and his blistered lips moved. “This is what I’ve been looking for, a cool place, me with my clothes off, and beautiful ladies all around.” A white phosphorous grenade had fatally burned the CIA officer. The scene was a U.S. Army hospital, Vietnam, 1971.

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The racial prejudice shown Takeshita, and to all Japanese-Americans, was very common at that time. In 1942, in the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt interned about 110,000 Japanese-Americans living on or near the west coast, to prison-like camps in the desert, to thwart possible “treachery” on their part. This was one of the worst decisions of Roosevelt’s presidency. In 1988, President Reagan signed a congressionally authorized apology to all Japanese-Americans, and over $1.5 billion in reparations was paid to those so unjustly confined.

We had a platoon sergeant, named Hatridge, also from Texas, who embodied everything we’d ever heard about pugnacious noncommissioned officers. The slightest infraction of his rules caused Hatridge to inflict severe punishment on the miscreant. One freezing November night I was made to dig a goldfish pond just outside the company orderly room, where I could see Hatridge sitting contentedly, chewing tobacco by a hot stove, where he could keep an eye on me.

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