Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster a Strong Economy"; 5) "Human Resources," which became "The Response to Human Concerns." McCann checked his outline with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Economic Assistant Gabriel Hauge, and then set out, in a barren cubicle at the U.S. Air Force base in Denver, to write the first draft of the message. The result: a triple-spaced sheaf of typescript that ran to precisely 30 minutes' reading time...
...McCann read this draft to the President in his hospital room. Ike interrupted at almost every paragraph to make changes. His secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman, took a shorthand transcription of his ideas. Next day, with only Mrs. Whitman present, Ike spent 90 more minutes revising and rewriting the second half of the speech. McCann flew back to Washington...
...Over the weekend, McCann studied the Whitman transcript and turned out a second draft, or "Revise No. 1," which he sent off to the President at Denver. McCann then thankfully took off with his wife for a seven-day vacation on the sunny island of Tobago "to wash the whole thing out of my mind." As it turned out, he had done only about two-thirds...
...report is a revision of a confidential first draft which was written several months ago. Although the report was supposed to be complete last June, the delays apparently arose from the need for lengthy discussion and revision of the first draft...
...Design School appointed a Committee last October to study the first draft of the report, and to make the recommendations necessary for presenting a rebuttal and commentary...