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...Lyndon Johnson had an inkling that Manchester was no friend and refused to see him, most of the principals spoke at length with the author-and with nobody else. When Jackie learned that Jim Bishop (The Day Lincoln Was Shot) was working on a book, she sent him a handwritten letter begging him "to please not go ahead with your intended book, The Day Kennedy Was Shot." Wrote Jackie: "I hired William Manchester to protect President Kennedy and the truth. If I decide the book should never be published, then Mr. Manchester will be reimbursed for his time...
...three days, he worked on his 500-word statement, first setting down his ideas in handwritten notes and then editing them with assistance from David Noyes, a longtime confidant. When it was done, Noyes issued mimeographed copies to newsmen at Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel. Truman, still confined to his home after a recent illness, stayed away from the press conference. After his statement was issued, thousands of telegrams and phone calls poured into Independence from all over the U.S., almost unanimously praising his stand. In Washington, both House Speaker John McCormack and Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford applauded...
...struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There he spotted a moldy, handwritten sticker, partially eaten away by termites: "Removed from...
...police planted intelligence agents among his servants and bugged his two apartments and his black Buick limousine. When they arrested the portly publisher 13 months ago, during a lunch with Odell in Amin's seaside villa, the police claimed that they found 20 pages of Odell's handwritten notes on a table near by. Odell was released because of his diplomatic immunity, and immediately flew back to Washington "for reassignment." "I am innocent," Amin insisted last week. "I have faith in my country, and history will reveal the truth." As far as Nasser was concerned, it already...
...reader tore out an ad with a reference to "fanatical thoroughness" and sent it to Lufthansa's Cologne headquarters with the marginal notation, "i.e., Eichmann." Another, objecting to the claim that Germans do everything with "painful thoroughness," commented, "particularly gas chambers." An Israeli sent in a six-page, handwritten letter of criticism. From London's Encounter Editor Melvin J. Lasky came this word: "Never in the history of public relations has there been a campaign in such incredibly bad taste. I have already called the attention of the German ambassador to the horrified amazement that your company should...