[4] As a White House Special Projects Aide during the Vietnam War, LaSpada organized a USO tour to the Philippines and Japan in 1966[5] with her friend, the journalist and humorist Art Buchwald.
[citation needed] Visiting a military hospital, she met a battle-injured medic who had seen 35 men in his unit die before he himself was mortally wounded.
[6] One of her first efforts came following a trip to Bethesda Naval Hospital; when she asked the amputee veterans what they would like, they replied "visits from pretty girls and athletes.
[10] Four of the athletes (Unitas, Brooks Robinson, Ted Williams, and Don Schollander) LaSpada had recruited in helping to provide moral support to the children of POWs and MIA soldiers wrote a letter for North Vietnam Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng in the hopes of opening a dialogue regarding the soldiers, but never received a reply.
[5] LaSpada resigned her role with No Greater Love when she accepted the position as Director for the White House Commission on Remembrance.