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They made an odd couple-the voluble politician from the streets of Newark and the taciturn Princeton man who worked on civil rights in the Justice Department under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. But the two men worked closely with growing mutual respect...
...focus is on what such spokesmen of the Intellectual Left as Norman Mailer '43, Norman Podhoretz, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Irving Howe and Dwight MacDonald wrote at each particular stage and how four particular "little magazines" reflected the vacillating fortunes of the intelligentsia. Because the study is an historical one that traces a written record of intellectual thought, Vogelgesang can avoid answering the very questions her survey raises and conclude that "the reaction of the U.S. Intellectual Left to the Vietnam War still begs its own response...
...John Mitchell, warning that "any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the IRS would be very damaging to him [Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system and the general public interest." Thrower said he next got a call from Nixon's appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, who reported that Mitchell had passed along Thrower's complaint and therefore no conference with the President was necessary. "Thereupon," said Thrower, "I submitted my resignation...
...military career has rarely led to wider leadership in this century except in the very special case of Dwight Eisenhower...
...Scholar-Activist Hess alternates between working in Government and writing about it. A senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, a nonprofit organization that analyzes public policy, he is a Johns Hopkins political science graduate who briefly taught government, at 26 became a White House speechwriter under Dwight Eisenhower. In 1969 he was appointed national chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Writer or co-author of five books on politics, he is now writing Organizing the Presidency, a book he describes as a primer for future Presidents...