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Raborn seems made to order for the CIA. As the free-world's guiding intelligence agency, the CIA's operations are supersecret. When things go wrong, the agency is a perfect scapegoat because, as Dwight Eisenhower once said, "success cannot be advertised; failure cannot be explained...
...grant may also be used to support a Nieman Institute, "still in the thinking stages," for senior journalists past the Nieman age limit of 40, according to Dwight E. Sargent, Curator of the Foundation. Visiting Institute scholars would have the same privileges as the regularly-appointed Nieman fellows, but for periods of a few months rather than a full year...
...Dwight Eisenhower was "not fitted for the job" of President, Winston Churchill was "long-winded," Joseph Stalin an "old bastard," and Douglas MacArthur "so important in his own mind he thought he was greater than the President of the United States." This is a TV commentator? Sure is. Harry Truman, 80, talking in his taped weekly TV series, Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman. That sort of thing so impressed the American Cinema Editors that they awarded him an "Eddie" as "the most outstanding television personality...
...prepared or willing or ready to stop doing what it is doing against its neighbors," said Lyndon Johnson at his Rose Garden press conference. Added the President: "A great friend of mine who had great responsibilities for a long period of military and executive life in our Government"-Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps?-"said to me the other day, 'When I see the suggestions about negotiations, I wonder if folks don't recognize that there must be someone to negotiate with, and there must be someone willing to negotiate...
Past recipients of the Thayer Award, which commemorates the service of the Military Academy's first superintendent, have included General Dwight D. Elsenhower, John Foster Dulles, John McCloy and Henry Cabot Lodge '24. The presentation ceremonies will take place on May 1, following a brigade review by the Corps of Cadets in Conant's honor...