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The formal Cabinet meeting may be on the way out as an important Washington institution. President Kennedy has long believed that Government has become too big and complex for a board-of-directors kind of approach, and nothing about his first full-dress meetings with his Cabinet changed his mind...
In the week that closed out his eight years in office, Dwight Eisenhower had a final briefing for John Kennedy, held his 193rd and last presidential press conference, greeted the last ambassador accredited to the U.S. during his stay in office (goateed Konan Bedie of the Ivory Coast, at 26...
Halfway around the world, midway between the red mud of Vientiane and the white marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In...
The psychological problems of creating the new German army were unique. Though it was to be a democratic army, its first officers obviously had to be veterans of the old Wehrmacht, nearly all of whom had been willing Nazi servants. Strauss set up a special "Inner Leadership" school in Koblenz...
In Paris last week, parliamentarians from 13 of NATO's 15 member nations* settled down around a giant, A-shaped table for their annual briefing on the problems before the alliance. This year's overriding topic: how to cope with the mounting dissatisfaction of other NATO members with...