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Peanuts on the Table. At General Motors, Charlie Wilson usually got to work about 9 in the morning. Nowadays, having turned out early to skim the morning papers, he is at the Pentagon at 8:15, and by 8:30 has had a conference with Roger Kyes. To keep informed...
Admiral's Triumph. As far as Wilson could see, the argument was impressive-in part, perhaps, because it was the only proposal he had heard which would permit the Administration to take a sizable cut out of the defense budget. Eventually, Wilson himself began to deride the Air Force...
The Lincoln findings have been on the National Security Council agenda for at least five of the seven weekly meetings of the council. They have been actively discussed each time. The Lincoln findings are also being studied in detail by two important advisory groups, whose verdict the President has indicated...
In Saigon, Clark had a three-hour briefing by French Commander Raoul Salan and the Vietnamese chief of staff, Nguyen Van Hinh. Salan told him that all signs point to "a very violent Viet Minh push in Laos soon," the Communists apparently having given up for now their hope of...
The President's seventh and busiest week in office was a good example of why he needed to set aside one afternoon a week for quiet thought. First & foremost was the news from Russia, which required several extraordinary conferences with top intelligence and diplomatic aides. General Van Fleet came...