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...requested such a machine and then used it so sporadically is unclear. He did like to keep written synopses of most Oval Office meetings; but he almost always either had an assistant take notes or dictated his recollections afterward. Whitman, who transcribed many of the tapes, points to the machine's deficiencies. After typing the first summary in 1953, she typed at the bottom that ''large portions of the tape were completely garbled.'' Five years later, when Queen Frederika visited the Oval Office, the recorder was still not cooperating: the transcript simply notes that...
...North Korean divisions came pouring across the DMZ, the U.S. would almost automatically become involved in another Korean war. At worst, U.S. strategists envision a wider Korean conflict leading to a superpower confrontation between China and the Soviet Union...
...nuke or a deceptive dud? For years South Africa's many enemies, as well as its few friends, have speculated about the possibility that Pretoria's white apartheid regime might secretly be developing nuclear weapons. South Africa not only has the required technical expertise, but also possesses almost one-fifth of the world's known uranium deposits...
...recent years it has become almost an oral tradition for clerks to poke fun at Burger as a vain and pompous man who likes French wine, as well as all things English, particularly English barristers, whom he considers to be more "civilized" than American lawyers. On occasion, he has been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly...
That tale, told by a University of Wisconsin undergraduate, could be repeated on almost any U.S. college campus today. Says Thomas Adams, dean of students at Chicago's Loyola University: "The single greatest drug abuse on this or any campus is undoubtedly alcohol...