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Mormon Elder Benson prayed aloud for the health of the President and Secretary Dulles, and for the accomplishment of their mission. Then Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. briefed the Cabinet on developments at Geneva and passed around an "eyes only," top-secret dispatch from the President, outlining his mutual arms-inspection plan. Each member read the message silently, then passed...
...Washington many members of Ike's own Cabinet had not been told. Defense Secretary Wilson was aware of the general outlines, but new Army Secretary Brucker admitted that it was news to him. Key members of Congress got a top-secret dispatch containing an outline of the proposal only a few hours before the President delivered it. It was handed to them personally by an Assistant Secretary of State...
...foreign diplomats have been impressed by his relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin. No one has to hover at his elbow...
...paintbox. Using bedticking for canvas, he painted Lafayette, Washington, General Nathanael Greene and a host of other officers, turned out miniatures on ivory on the side. Once, when painting General Washington in 1777, Peale found himself eyewitnessing a high moment in history. An aide handed Washington a dispatch. After one glance, Washington for a moment lost his iron control, jubilantly shouted, "Burgoyne is taken," then quickly resumed his solemn pose...
...police tried to lead the men away, the crowd rose to the occasion, jostled the officers and pushed a taxi to the sidewalk. One of the officers then pulled his pistol and held up the crowd until four paddy wagons arrived with 40 policemen, night sticks in hand, to dispatch the uprising...