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...real rules can be written for the relationship among President, Secretary and the NSC adviser in this era of power by personality. The central figure, as always, is the President. For instance, McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser from 1961 to '66, was a forceful intellect, but he never shouldered Rusk aside. The reason was John Kennedy, a man who studied world events and the shifts of power and had seasoned views of America's role. Lyndon Johnson, the domestic impresario, was less certain. He needed help and turned to Rusk, Robert McNamara, his Defense Secretary, and Walt Rostow...
Johnson: Let's start with the positive qualities. This is a very serious man, a serious man who has informed himself on issues marvelously well. Intellect--a first-rate mind. Well-disciplined. Hard worker. Honorable--old-fashioned word. Integrity--I believe it, a lot of people don't. Those are all very positive things. And a desire that is maybe quite unusual: everyone wants to do well, but I think he particularly really wanted to do something superior, fine...
...woman-kind are of intellect deficient...
Therefore, Fowler concludes, Hancock was neither so wealthy, so radical, nor so distinguished as many around him. "He lacked the eloquence of Jefferson, the intellect of John Adams, and the character of Washington," Fowler admits...
...parched bones drying up in the desert." The warning was directed to both the next generation-"The youth of the world should unite. The adults failed"-and to women -"Maybe women should be entrusted with the responsibility for the world because they are led by emotion and not by intellect. Maybe they would do better than we did." Eichmann also discloses that he had been ordered to check out the racial origins of the "Diet Chief," the code name for Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun. It was discovered that Braun was one thirty-second Jewish...