Word: confidantes
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Died. Major General Charles Willoughby, 80, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence during World War II and Korea; in Naples, Fla. One of the "Bataan Boys" who fled from the Philippines with MacArthur in 1942, Willoughby spent the next nine years as the general's confidant, companion...
Died. Prescott Sheldon Bush, 77, former U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1952-63), and father of U.N. Ambassador George Bush; in New York. A longtime confidant and golf partner of Dwight Eisenhower's and a banker by training, Bush was an authority on Government finance and the economy. Despite his...
Clark MacGregor took over as campaign manager when John Mitchell resigned, and has been bringing some order to chaos. Gradually, Republican moguls who would talk only to Mitchell are beginning to talk to MacGregor. Not that Mitchell has vanished. His law office is located in the same building as the...
In The Ghetto on the Tiber, a history of Rome's Jewish community recently published in Italy, Dutch-American Jew Sam Waagenaar argues that Pius did almost nothing privately for Jewish refugees under the very windows of the Vatican in Rome. One of the main targets of Waagenaar'...
Senator Tom Eagleton, of Missouri, and longtime Presidential Adviser, Jim Rowe, who had opposed Muskie's ill-fated effort in Wisconsin, were sunk in gloom over his fourth-place finish there. Clark Clifford had also been against competing in that primary, but his was a voice of optimism still...