Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons. "Henry likes clever diplomats but can't abide stuffy bureaucrats," explains a mutual friend. "Bill Sullivan is a very clever diplomat." After serving in half a dozen embassies from India to Italy, Sullivan was plucked from departmental obscurity in 1962 by another enemy of bureaucrats, W. Averell Harriman, then head of the U.S. delegation to the Laos conference in Geneva. "It took me just a couple of discussions with Sullivan to realize he was not an ordinary man," Harriman recalls. He made Sullivan his deputy, but several senior State Department officers protested that Sullivan could not be promoted...
...music occasionally interrupted by Mr. Loudspeaker, filled the church. Inside the clergymen of the Cathedral, acting as Marshalls, quietly seated the crowds. The crowd applauded several times: when the National orchestra members entered and began to tune up: when Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass). Sargent Shriver, and Averell Harriman arrived; and finally when Francis B. Sayre, Jr., dean of the Washington Cathedral, walked to the pulpit...
Former Ambassador Averell Harriman: "I thanked God that he stopped the bombing. The damage done really is a national disgrace. And if anything it has made the negotiations more difficult...
...beneath it wrote, with deliberate ignorance, "Goodman." It is just as amusing to learn that Johnson's insistence that his subordinates "accompany him into the bathroom for conversations during the most personal of body demands" drove C. Douglas Dillon out of the Cabinet. Then there is Mrs. Averell Harriman's response when told her husband looked terrific at age 70: "You'd look terrific too, if you did nothing but play polo until you were forty years old." These anecdotes provide insight as well as humor. They form the heart of the book...
...Averell Harriman, described by an aide as "the only ambitious seventy-seven-year-old I've ever met," fighting optimists like General Maxwell Taylor ("the key military figure," Halberstam thinks, "in all the estimates...