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Notes on the Table. A few days before the brotherhood's 92 were sentenced, one of Nasser's courts decreed a life sentence for Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin, 52, who was accused of passing security information to an alleged CIA agent named Bruce Taylor Odell, officially listed as...
Preposterous? Jack Javits for President? Or Vice President? A slum-born Jew from the Lower East Side of New York? A luncheon companion and confidant of the G.O.P.'s Eastern "kingmakers" and Wall Street internationalists? A mugwump who backed F.D.R. in 1940 and bucked Barry Goldwater in 1964? An urban...
Lord Moran was, in fact, more than Churchill's doctor. From the time Sir Winston became Prime Minister of a besieged Britain in 1940 to the last, curt medical bulletin ("Shortly after 8 a.m., Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home"), Charles McMoran Wilson was his confidant and...
The world has both favored and feared the philosophers' answers. Thomas Aquinas became a saint, Aristotle was tutor to Alexander the Great, and Voltaire was a confidant of kings. But Socrates was put to death, and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. Nowadays, Historian Will Durant has noted...
As he saw it, McGeorge Bundy's responsibility to two Presidents was to "get to the bare bones of the problem as cleanly and clearly as you could and state the alternatives as sharply as possible." In his 58 months as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Bundy generally...