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...figures embody this era's stars and smudges more than John J. McCloy. According to Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan J. Brinkley, in a recent article in Harper s, he helped run the War Department during the fighting, formulating crucial legislation "regulating labor, conscription, recruitment, promotion, and procurement, ...and he was closely involved as well with some of the most sensitive diplomatic decisions of the war." From 1949 to 1952, McCloy served as American High Commissioner to Germany, completing the sensitive task of rebuilding the country while securing its position in the Western Alliance...
Lyss cited a recent Harper's magazine article by Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley which argued that McCloy was merely acting on the orders of others and did not, for example, initiate the idea of internment camps...
When a masked intruder burst into a lecture on Richard Nixon and cried, "Who said crook?", Alan Brinkley, professor of History 1628, "The American Century: 1945 to the Present" expressed his displeasure. After the intruder departed, Brinkley reportedly said, "This is a trend in Harvard life that I do not approve...
Lampoon President Conan C. O'Brien '85 yesterday denied that the incident had any connection with Phools' Week, saying only, "We've already talked to Brinkley...
Donaldson is the most controversial White House correspondent since CBS's Dan Rather left that post in 1974. Moreover, in contrast to Rather and most other reporters and anchors, Donaldson voices his political opinions freely. On the Sunday-morning ABC roundtable led by David Brinkley, where Donaldson is a regular, he lambasted the Reagan Administration's so-called squeal rule, which would compel health agencies to inform parents when dispensing birth control devices to women under 18. Said Donaldson: "It is an awful idea. That is the problem with this Administration. Too often it wants to dictate morals...