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...minutes before show time. In the new State Department Auditorium on Washington's 23rd Street waited 400 anxious reporters, cameramen, radio and TV technicians, as well as an assortment of high school students, foreign visitors and stenographers who had wangled accreditation for the occasion. Offstage, in a small anteroom, stood Secretary of State Dean Rusk, clutching a sheaf of intelligence cables, prepared to give the star a quick final briefing. Then the President of the United States arrived, trailing a funereal squad of black-suited aides; nine still photographers, as if on cue, frantically recorded the presidential progress...
...Plymouth Inn at Ocean City, N.J., a political reception was in full swing when a telephone rang in the anteroom. A woman answered it, then returned to the reception. "Who," she asked, "is Richard J. Hughes...
...Brien's own district. (It was Boland who was the earliest to spot Jack Kennedy's presidential potential. In 1946 he told O'Brien: "Kennedy's a real comer. He can go all the way.") On the Hill, Boland's office has become an anteroom to O'Brien's headquarters, and other Congressmen have come to regard the Springfield Democrat as the resident of Capitol Hill who has the most direct line to O'Brien...
...leaders and the people." He postponed his press conference one day to get a statement drafted. Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy and Soviet Expert Charles ("Chip") Bohlen drafted the first version, and Kennedy rejected it. Right up to press conference time he penciled away at the second draft in the anteroom of the new State Department auditorium. He was on the fourth page of the seven-page statement when he was told that the TV cameras were on. He coolly continued to read through to the end before he rose and pushed open the door. It was a worn and somber...
...Arts were banned as being "habitually in a state of profound alcoholic intoxication." A lady critic from Philadelphia was told that she would never understand art until she had an affair with an iceman; and Critic Emily Genauer, now of the New York Herald Tribune, was greeted in an anteroom by a flunky with two nasty dogs and told to go home...