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...Administration's delay and disorder in foreign policy have brought mounting criticism. The attack last week that attracted the most public notice, and caused the most consternation at the White House, came from Henry Kissinger himself, an architect of detente who has grown more mistrustful of the Soviets and hawkish toward them since leaving office. In two articles for the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Kissinger charged the Administration with failing to lead the West in the Polish crisis and with lacking a coherent approach to the world. Though he said, "I continue to believe that...
...worked this transformation was born to wealth and ease in a Hudson River estate at Hyde Park, N.Y. Destined for Groton, Harvard, the law and a life of comfortable obscurity, he became instead not only the President and creator of the New Deal but also the architect of a new political coalition that elected him to four terms and remained in control of Washington for more than two decades. As commander of the Grand Alliance that won World War II, he established the U.S. as the unchallenged leader of the free world. He was, says one young admirer named Peter...
...Pedersen & Tilney project was abandoned. The Memorial Commission sought a new architect...
...commission announced it had assigned the task to Architect Marcel Breuer, a prominent member of the Bauhaus school...
...Chief Architect Robert Mathews of Welton Becket Associates began by "unbuilding" the interior. The task was complicated: the original building plans had disappeared over the years. Assembling old photos, early Sears catalogues and newspapers for pictures of authentic decor, "historians found some clues right in the building-a bit of plaster under the assembly speaker's podium became a model for the style of the ceiling molding. Girvigian, scrambling through false ceilings, uncovered keys to the original paint job. Researchers used aerial cameras to map the mosaic floors, which were then taken up, moved and cleaned. Piece by numbered...