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- President Barack Obama talks about his plan to reform the broken system of contracting to cut back on wasteful spending. Steps to this plan include tough new contracting guidelines in the administration, smart investments while cutting wasteful spending, and strengthening oversight.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Edna Penny Rice talks about her twenty-four year military career, first in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and then its successors, the Women's Army Corps, and the Women in the Air Force. Rice says that she enlisted because she thought she "was as good" as her brother and her fiance and felt very patriotic. Rice says that she was inducted in July 1942 and worked in personnel and administration in every military theater of operation. She describes working and living conditions at her various posting, her uniforms and her leadership and administrative responsibilities. Rice says she was was pushed into becoming an officer and never planned on making the service a career. Rice is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- President Barack Obama talks about his plan to reform the broken system of contracting to cut back on wasteful spending. Steps to this plan include tough new contracting guidelines in the administration, smart investments while cutting wasteful spending, and strengthening oversight.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection