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Bell' Antonio. A serious and discreet discussion of a case of impotence...
...fast but not fast enough, discreet but not discreet enough. He had served four Presidents, mastered Churchill's stutter and Eisenhower's wayward syntax, but the new tempo of the White House was not his, and last week Official Stenographer Jack Romagna was unceremoniously fired. The sacking left correspondents morosely pondering a final, unanswered question: Was Romagna's fatal mistake marking the transcript of a presidential telephone talk "From the White House swimming pool...
...Moscow River, and make a few jokes about an old comrade named Joseph Stalin, recently reinterred. The two were hardly alone: a secret security agent sat stolidly in the front seat alongside the pilot; a whole boatload of them trailed the Premier's craft at a discreet distance...
Bell' Antonio. A serious and discreet discussion of a case of impotence...
While in flight, Harkins put on his glasses, made notes on index cards for a speech to be made to a new contingent of U.S. officers arriving next day. In clear block letters he jotted down such phrases as "Remember you are not commanders," "Diplomat discreet," and "Def . . . Lem . . . Felt . . ." In other words, he intended to tell the new men not to give orders to the Vietnamese, only to advise; they are to work hard to get along with their Vietnamese counterparts; and Defense Secretary McNamara, General Lyman Lemnitzer and Admiral Harry Felt were all arriving in a week...