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Like Dulles, he was a hard worker. Once when Dulles himself telephoned the MacArthur home asking for Doug, Mrs. MacArthur mistook him for an aide and snapped irately: "MacArthur is where MacArthur always is, weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and nights-in that office." (Within minutes, MacArthur got a telephoned order from...
Hughes went to work for Time Inc. as head of its Rome bureau in 1946. served as head of the Berlin bureau during the airlift, later became text editor of LIFE. During the 1952 campaign, feeling that Dwight Eisenhower could provide the foreign-policy leadership that Hughes believed the nation...
Whenever the President had to speak up at the Geneva conference, as Khrushchev told it, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was seated at Ike's right, would hand him a note telling him what to say. "The President should at least, for the sake of appearances, have...
According to Boulay, Stevenson then went on to criticize the late U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his successor:
Finally, under Khrushchev's intense pressure, Hagerty announced that Ike had actually ordered the U-2 flights canceled just before leaving for Paris. The order had gone, said Hagerty, to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Nathan Twining, and to Defense Secretary Gates (thus casually demolishing the President...