Word: information
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persistently interesting issue is the matter of communications between the Administration and Health Services in drug cases. Dr. Farnsworth urged an attempt to help students find "medical solutions" before they are implicated in legal or disciplinary action; no "spy system" would be set up to inform the authorities, he promised. Later in the spring, when the Administrative Board ousted a freshman for giving and selling marijuana to his friends, the Health Services were involved only after the case went to the Police--and then only in an attempt to assist the victims medically...
...planners therefore proposed other possible landing sites, and the Bay of Pigs was chosen. Sorensen reports that the Joint Chiefs failed to inform "either Kennedy or McNamara that they still thought Trinidad preferable," while Schlesinger recalls that the Chiefs said they still preferred Trinidad-but said it "softly." At one point Dean Rusk suggested that the operation be launched from Guantanamo, thereby providing the invaders with an opportunity for retreat; but the Joint Chiefs rejected that idea, and Rusk later complained to Schlesinger that "the Pentagon people" were willing to risk "the President's head...
...before some interesting questions were raised about its language. Particularly bothering some Senators was a provision that the Vice President and a majority of either the Cabinet "or of such other body as Congress may by law" establish could decide that the President was incapacitated, inform Congress of the disability, and have the Vice President take over as Acting President...
Proving the Point. The President took special pains to inform Hanoi of the purpose of the lull. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Foy Kohler told Red China's Moscow embassy about it. U.S. officials let Russian diplomats in Washington know. The French, British and Canadians-all of whom have pipelines to Hanoi-were informed. Each was asked to pass on the message that any hostile action by the Viet Cong during the lull would prompt the U.S. to double its bomb loads if and when the raids resumed. North Viet Nam brusquely condemned the lull...
Masters, the memorandum states, will "be free to inform the Standing Committee and its staff of general manpower needs they would like to have considered, as well as particular students they may hope to have assigned to them...