Rand Beers oral history interview

The Scope and Contents note of this oral history was originally generated by feeding the electronic transcript into OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 on 2023 September 01. It was then reviewed and edited by a human.

Oral history interview with Rand Beers, class of 1964. Beers discusses his adolescence in a military family, followed by his time at Dartmouth and military training. He describes his Vietnam tour and extension, then talks about transitioning to civilian life and joining the State Department. Beers reflects on how Vietnam impacted later national conflicts, shares experiences from the Second Gulf War, and explains his departure from the Bush Administration to join the Kerry Campaign. He concludes by discussing his time in the Obama Administration.