Word: bartlettism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both the Kennedy Administration and Adlai Stevenson have been severely damaged by a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post. Perhaps neither will ever recover completely. The article, written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett, has inspired innumerable rumors, opinions and theories on Adlai Stevenson's role in the recent Cuban crisis and his career prospects. Yet several well-defined issues emerge from this melee: freedom of Presidential advisers from disclosure and misrepresentation of their advice, the responsibility of the President towards those advisers, and the ruinous irresponsibility of reporters Alsop and Bartlett...
...their article, In Time of Crisis, Alsop and Bartlett claim to give the public an inside scoop on the high-level deliberations which led to key decisions during the crisis. Their facts are wrong and their interpretations are grossly oversimplified, but worst of all they discuss the supposedly confidential positions taken by Stevenson and others at National Security Council meetings. The article quotes an anonymous official as saying: "Adlai wanted a Munich.... He wanted to trade Turkish and British missile bases for Cuban bases...
...Bartlett's Familiar Quotations states that it was said by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when Minister to the French Republic in 1797. A footnote says, "Inscribed on the cenotaph in his memory in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C. What Pinckney really said was more forcible, 'not a damned penny for tribute...
...Bartlett is wrong. In 1797 a secret agent from Talleyrand told Pinckney that the American Commissioners sent to Paris to protest French attacks on U.S. shipping would be received only if they paid a ?50,000 bribe and made a large loan to the French government. Pinckney's words at this point, according to his own story, were, "Not a sixpence...
...Crimson margin was so substantial by the final race, that Ford let his crewman, Dave Gantz, handle the tiller. Ed Lang and George Bartlett crewed for Harvard in "B" and "C" divisions...