Word: donovan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, under a succession of able ambassadors−Ed Stanton, William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and the late Jack Peurifoy−the U.S. embassy at Bangkok had had perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
...lure of a peep into the White House's own files made an overnight bestseller last week of New York Herald Tribune Reporter Robert J. Donovan's new book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul...
Twelve hours elapsed before old (75) General Snyder told Acting Press Secretary Murray Snyder that the President had suffered a coronary. After that, says Donovan, the U.S. public was kept informed of the President's condition with "thoroughness and candor...
After security agents ran a check on him to give him "Q" clearance-enabling him to share the Government's most highly classified secrets-Donovan went to work. He was installed in the White House East Executive Wing, where he studied documents and took exhaustive notes for almost two months. Then he began interviewing some 50 key Administration officials, all of whom had been instructed to speak freely. In all his research he made no approach to two possible sources: Jim Hagerty, whom he saw only twice casually in groups, and President Eisenhower himself...
...Killer." With free rein to use anything he had seen or heard, Donovan submitted about 20 or 30 pages of his manuscript for standard security clearance; otherwise he showed it to no Government official. In the home stretch of his 160,000-word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn...