Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles arrived at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, as he always does for White House conferences, with a neat agenda of items for discussion. On his typewritten list, ready to be checked off, were eight subjects, including the forthcoming Big Four foreign ministers' conference at Geneva, the Communist shipment of arms to Egypt and a letter to Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin. The President's physicians told the Secretary of State that 1) he could bring up any subject he wished to, and 2) he did not have to comply with their previously set 15-minute time limitation...
...talked business with Vice President Nixon and other officials. Each afternoon, after a careful check with the presidential physicians, he visited the patient for ten minutes or more. Before he went in, he decided what matters should be brought to the President's attention; then he cleared his agenda with the physicians. When he submitted a paper for signature, it was in as good order as was possible, it had been cleared by the Government department concerned, and it bore the "O.K., S.A." that President Eisenhower watches for on papers submitted to him in the White House...
...executive department's business in a manner unprecedented in U.S. history. For 2½ hours the NSC, composed of key U.S. officials who deal with the total problem of defense, e.g., the Secretaries of State and Defense and the defense mobilizer, worked its way through a normal agenda. Next day, with the young (42) Vice President again sitting as chairman, the Cabinet met and pushed through the week's business. Out of the two meetings came a list of recommendations that will be passed on to President Eisenhower when he is well enough to receive them. Every recommendation...
...choose between two or more recommendations, each bearing the prejudices of a particular field of study, of interest or of bureaucratic function. Inevitably, the new system brought a new and more important status to the Cabinet meeting. Served by a secretary (a Bostonian named Max Raab) who prepares an agenda for each meeting, circulates position papers in advance, briefs the presiding officer and follows up on decisions, the Eisenhower Cabinet meeting has become a truly effective forum for thrashing out policy matters...
Though the subject was not remotely on the agenda, Britain's Harold Macmillan abruptly blurted out what was preoccupying the West. If Russia is sincerely trying to ease world tensions, Macmillan demanded of Molotov, why is Russia's satellite Czechoslovakia selling arms to Egypt? Turning on his best wide-eyed look, Molotov professed to know nothing about...