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Robert Caro can use a computer to locate the institutions holding oral histories from soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley.
Unresolved speaker · What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years · 30 Oct 2026
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“It's called the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. Nobody's written about it in detail. But I could go to my computer, and I could look up where are the oral histories from soldiers who fought in that battle, uh, and you just...”
“Whe- what, what colleges are the oral histories at? Uh, what documents are available in a way you couldn't do it before.”45:03Report a misattribution
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