Word: briefers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This November, I returned to Saigon (where I lived in 1966-1967) for a brief visit- briefer than planned, as it turned out, since I was expelled six days later. Before arriving there, I'd heard many conflicting reports about important changes occurring in the country. What I found exceeded all expectations. Public opinion about the War has been radically transformed. Although virtually unpublicized in the U.S., the events of the past nine months reflect a new and vigorous opposition both to the fighting and to the Thieu-Ky regime triumvirate...
...Spot. What has Nixon worried is a letter from Pierre Rinfret, a Nixon economic briefer in 1967 and 1968, who is now a successful New York-based consultant to major U.S. corporations. If the Administration's economic game plan remains unchanged, said Rinfret in his assessment for the President, unemployment will rise to 7.9% by the end of 1971, and to a catastrophic 9.7% a year later. Those figures are somewhat extreme, but not wholly out of line with other expert forecasts. Rinfret wrote Nixon a month ago. Since the President saw his report, a White House aide says...
...Matthew and Hannah Josephson, liberal writers of long standing, bring both knowledge, political empathy and personal affection to their biography of Smith. Onetime Hearst Journalist Richard O'Connor's book is breezier and briefer, less analytical about Smith and less reflective about his special place in U.S. politics...