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...better hope Saddam Hussein missed Monday?s New York Times, or else he?ll know all about the CIA?s proposed covert operation to overthrow...
...tools of information technology to inform the oblivious, and, yes, a vocal and activist Undergraduate Council willing to use its Harvard moniker as a bully pulpit on which to speak up for progressive causes, whether it be the plight of migrant farm laborers or Harvard's egregious and covert land acquistions in the working-class community of Allston...
...sure of that, it helps to be persuaded by Hersh's attempts earlier in the book to prove that Kennedy "must have" been in communication with Giancana--or at least that he was briefed before the 1960 election by Bissell or CIA Director Allen Dulles about the covert operations in Cuba approved by Dwight Eisenhower. Like Richard Nixon, Hersh believes Kennedy must have been, but Dark Side never proves...
Much has been written about Kennedy's squalid covert sex life, his reckless association with men and women tied to organized crime, his father's uninhibited use of family money to oil Jack's political career, his family's extraordinary efforts to hide the truth about themselves and manipulate the press into cooperating with them in that effort. Hersh adds some significant new detail to all these stories and many others. But he also offers a larger justification for returning to this sordid and oft-trod ground: "Kennedy's private life and personal obsessions--his character--affected the affairs...
...West Wing. She sent her chief of staff at the time, Maggie Williams, to meetings. If she needed to make a point, she did it one on one with such trusted aides as deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and political director Doug Sosnik. And she became the covert campaigner, keeping the national media off her plane as she stumped from city to city. Save for her star turn at the Democratic Convention, the First Lady hovered below radar...