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As always, Press Secretary Hagerty pulled up a chair directly across the desk from the President and began running down his list: "Mr. President, there is likely to be something on the economy . . ." From time to time other staffers chipped in with a word of advice or a piece of...
Both Democratic and Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee seemed to agree with Dulles on this point after a three-hour secret briefing, which also touched on most other major international issues.
Even more unlikely was genial Jim Hagerty's hopping-mad reaction to the column. Though Buchwald's jest was actually a spoof at the press (which took it as such, and laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled...
¶Briefing State Department correspondents last week on the Indonesian crisis, Press Officer Lincoln White took extraordinary pains to praise the work of U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia John M. Allison, 52. Behind-the-scenes reason: Old Far East Hand Allison had already written out his resignation in protest against a...
Though Government mimeographs orbited overtime on the Vanguard project, and an uncommon flow of information on firing times and other matters was directed to newsmen, the press itself played no small part in building up for the letdown. Few of the 127 U.S. and foreign reporters who covered the launching...