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Other Administration officials, however, brushed aside and even ridiculed Feldstein's concerns. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "I wish economists would sit back and relax. This will be one of the greatest recoveries in history." At a press briefing in November, White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes told reporters...
A nine-year-old girl, left alone at home, panics when her Great Dane starts giving birth to pups. A two-year-old boy is bleeding from a cut in the knee, and the four-year-old girl who is looking after him desperately needs help. These are typical of...
ABC hired New York Times National Security Correspondent Leslie Gelb to help shape the program. Gelb in turn recruited a panel of seven experts, called the "control group," who wrote a 100-page briefing book and picked the players. Their apt casting for President: former Secretary of State (and presidential...
There are no pictures of the aftermath of Hiroshima or even nuclear test explosions hung on the walls of the White House Situation Room, where crises are deliberated by the National Security Council. There are no formalized briefing manuals or movies shown to a President that deal specifically with the...
Perhaps the most famous and oft-cited example of collaboration between America, Israel and South Africa can be found in a series of charges and counter-charges leveled in 1979. On September 22 of that year, a U.S. Vela Satellite linked to the Los Alamos Observatory recorded an atmospheric nuclear...