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...that fire regulations be changed to permit the FBI to respond to any fire in the District of Columbia. In the memo, he explained: "If there were to be a fire at the Brookings Institution, the FBI could respond" and get a certain file from Senior Fellow Leslie H. Gelb's office. In another memo, former Presidential Counsel John Dean recommended that the White House retaliate against Brookings by cutting its $500.000 in annual Government contracts and getting the IRS to audit its taxes...
...casualties, have largely neutralized the antiwar movement. But there is more to the President's strength in the polls than is indicated by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's glib gibe that "the American public understands the difference between addition and subtraction." Some observers, among them Leslie Gelb, who headed the "Pentagon papers" study during the Johnson Administration, reckon that the real difficulty in sustaining protest against Nixon's handling of the war began after the Laos incursion of 1971, when it became clear that Viet Nam was turning into a "proxy war" fought mainly by Vietnamese with...
...polls suggest that McGovern's sense of moral outrage is not shared by most Americans, who tend to go along with Nixon's gut conviction that a U.S. President cannot simply get out of Viet Nam without an "honorable" settlement. As Gelb, now with the Brookings Institution, says, it is true "both that the American people want out and that they don't want the place handed over to the Communists...
Trade gossip had it that Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal wanted the Sunday spot for his close friend Arthur Gelb, now metropolitan editor. But top management has in recent years preferred some separation between the daily and Sunday operations, and Rosenthal quickly hailed Frankel, 42, as "the best man for the job." An enterprising, thoughtful reporter who served as a foreign and White House correspondent before taking over the Washington bureau in 1968, Frankel was clearly marked for higher things. But the appointment of a political specialist to the primarily cultural Sunday job occasioned mild surprise...
LESLIE H. GELB...