Word: informativeness
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...soon as the operation was over, Moyers phoned Humphrey to inform him that all had gone well. It took only seven seconds to put through the call. Then the press secretary mounted the stage of the hospital's movie theater to announce: "The operation was a complete success." By 11 a.m. the President was fully awake. Summoning Moyers, he asked: "Bill, how are you?" Moyers, swathed in a surgical gown, brought good news. His first words to the boss: "The stock market opened strong today, Mr. President...
...tidy timetable for the war. The latest series of reports to Saigon from U.S. officials stationed in each of the nation's 43 provinces showed a marked improvement in peasant morale, and confidence in Premier Ky's government. There is also a sharp increase in willingness to inform on the Viet Cong-and to cooperate with the anti-Communist forces. A small but significant example of this occurred in Ben Cat last week when a V.C. terrorist stepped out of a crowd to hurl a grenade at U.S. troops passing on the street near by. Before he could...
These few students have failed to comprehend this difference, while the vast majority of students have neglected to inform them that they might better serve the cause of peace and eradicate the causes of war by demonstrating their talents in the Peace Corps instead of demonstrating their stupidity on the streets of Chicago or at the gates of the White House...
...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...