Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy from his U.N. mission headquarters or from his Waldorf Tower suite. He consults constantly with Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. a White House liaison man and an old Stevenson speechwriter who, however, switched allegiance to Kennedy in early 1960. At least once a week Stevenson flies to Washington to attend State Department meetings or meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council...
...Pierre Salinger issued a brief, flabby statement attesting that Stevenson "strongly supported the decision taken by the President on the quarantine and brilliantly developed the U.S. position at the United Nations." But it did not deny the Bartlett-Alsop charges. On the same day, Stevenson was in Washington to attend an NSC Executive Committee meeting (where, like other top Cuba advisers, he received from Kennedy a silver calendar with the 13 crucial October days deeply etched). After the session, Stevenson was ushered into Kennedy's office, assured that the President had had nothing to do with the Post article...
Although the President must take the chief responsibility for the consequences of this affair, Alsop and Bartlett are guilty of the worst kind of reckless journalism. They did not even report correctly who was at the meetings and they misquoted those who did attend. The reporters oversimplified the debate by dividing those officials involved into "hawks" and "doves." The article is full of cliches and melodramatic devices. If Alsop and Bartlett had accurately reported Stevenson's statements the present furor might never have arisen. But accurate or inaccurate, the article has set a dangerous precedent. Leaks from the top will...
...swarms are coming, he went on, attend the opening meeting of the CRIMSON's winter competition, an opportunity few writers, photographers, or business men would be willing...
...spent some time out of bed and planned to attend an elaborate canonization ceremony scheduled for St. Peter's Basilica next Sunday...