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...learned, as all Presidents do, that he sometimes has to ask three times to get things done. On his telephone, the President has installed a console of pushbuttons, enabling him to bypass secretaries and instantly reach the inner offices of his top lieutenants. In the same spirit of crowflight communications, Kennedy last week abolished the Operations Coordinating Board, a buffer agency between the White House and national security agencies, and explained that he preferred "direct communications with the responsible agencies so that everyone will know what I have decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Damned Good Job | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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