Oral History Interview with Jeff Rogers

Title
Oral History Interview with Jeff Rogers
Narrator (written)
Jeff Rogers
Narrator First Name
Jeff
Narrator Last Name
Rogers
Interviewer
Ellen Li
Abstract
Jeffrey L. Rogers, Dartmouth College Class of 1966. Rogers’ father was friend to Richard M. Nixon and secretary of state under his administration. At Dartmouth he played intramural sports, was the president of his fraternity, majored in History, and was a Senior Fellow. He talks about the spirit of activism surrounding the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war while at Dartmouth. Rogers attended Harvard Medical School but dropped out after the first year. He applied to Officer Candidate School [OCS] in the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army while still serving. Rogers did well in OCS and trained in navigation. In Vietnam, he served as a navigator, an officer of the deck, and a landing signals officer aboard the USS Repose, a hospital ship. Rogers describes the ship and the operations aboard. For his second year of active duty he was stationed in the Pentagon. Afterwards he attended Yale Law School, a part of the class of 1973, where he befriended the Clintons. He then became a manager of an office in Portland, Oregon and retired as a lawyer in 2004. Rogers obtained a master’s degree in counseling, becoming a mental health counselor. He currently works as a counselor with combat vets, specifically focusing on PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder]. Rogers discusses Watergate, government, recent wars, and returning to Vietnam in 2004, with his son.
Date of Interview
August 19, 2015
Subject
Dartmouth Alumni
Protest/Antiwar Activism
Military Service (Navy)
Military Service
Political Participation
Dartmouth History
Language
English
Rauner ID
DOH-472
Rights
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Interview Audio Source (MP3)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/rogers_jeffrey/rogers_jeffrey.mp3
Interview Transcript Source (PDF)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/rogers_jeffrey/rogers_jeffrey_transcript_final.pdf
HTML
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/rogers_jeffrey/rogers_jeffrey_transcript_final.html

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