Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct White House telephone at Fort Adams' "Quarters No. i," an eight-bedroom Victorian frame house under an old-fashioned mansard roof. He pondered one of the most serious decisions of his Administration when Secretary Dulles came to the vacation White House office to work out the draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends as U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney and Washington Lawyer-Industrialist George E. Allen, roly-poly White House jester through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower regimes, failed to give the needed break from...
During the campaign, Milton, avoiding the scarring, jarring rough and tumble of partisan politics, played only a minor part. But once election was won, he took charge of an exhaustive preparation for office. A management-survey firm was hired, at his suggestion, to draft detailed analyses of each federal department and major agency. This sort of efficient staff work, at which both brothers excel, helped Ike take over in 1953 without any serious administrative hitches...
More than Retort. Painstaking work, with six rewritings between first draft and final text, went into the President's speech. Resolved that any speech he delivered to the General Assembly would be more than a mere retort to Soviet accusations. Ike called in C. D. Jackson, a vice president of TIME, Inc. and wartime civilian member of General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff, who had helped write the Atoms for Peace speech...
Jackson revised his first major draft in keeping with suggestions by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Draft No. 2 got a thorough going-over at an all-day Sunday session at Dulles' house by a team made up of Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Deputy Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree and State Department Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt, along with Dulles and Jackson. President Eisenhower and Dulles, working together at the White House, edited the next draft. After retyping, this edited version underwent still another Eisenhower tooling. The White House secretarial staff...
Four U.S. engineers arrived to try to improve Jordan's incredible desert railroads (of 21 locomotives, only five are operable) and to devise a method of speeding up the unloading of cargo at the shallow-draft port of Aqaba. For the British, who are holding the lid tight on this boiling cauldron, the situation is becoming critical. Each possible move seems to create more problems than it solves...