To make matters worse, Schwarzkopf took with him into retirement the minute-by-minute campaign log kept by his executive officer. The diary was a key source for the general’s $5 million memoirs, but army sources say he has denied historians access to it. Beyond that, the sources say, Schwarzkopf also took phone logs, copies of documents and sheaves of graphics prepared during the war, showing the progress of battle–all of which he’s refused to share. For its own history, the army had to reconstruct the graphics by going from unit to unit “all over the world,” the sources say. But what’s really miffed his former comrades, the sources say, is Schwarzkopf’s refusal to address army audiences–while reportedly getting up to $60,000 a pop on the lecture circuit.
Schwarzkopf says he knows nothing about the absence of historians from his HQ. He denies taking official papers and says the army didn’t ask to interview him or to see his diaries. As for talking to army schools, he claims it’s just “good form” to wait a few more years.
