Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
Family Secret. It was this draft which the President issued. Even though it was toned down, the proclamation still created some stir. The President felt obliged to reassure the country that all was well; and that the outlook for peace, he thought, was even improving...
Administration officials, not quite recovered from the Vinson fiasco, did their best to keep the whole affair a family secret. Mr. Steelman picked himself up, brushed himself off and tried to look both innocent and unruffled. "There was some talking back and forth when I presented the draft at the Pentagon," he recalled. "When the President goes off and leaves me in charge, I don't have time to pay much attention to little picayunish things...
...Little Six" compromise draft suggested that the Russians end the Berlin blockade immediately, and that the Berlin military governors start working out ways & means of establishing the Russian mark as Berlin's only currency, under four-power control. The Western Allies accepted this proposal and agreed to drop their demand for a Security Council vote censuring Russia...
...major controversial Issues, policy is determined by a majority vote of the entire staff. In the past, such Issues have been the Truman Doctrine and Truman's request for a draft. Another will be the choice of a presidential candidate...