Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon. Military leaders can offer advice, but McNamara makes the decisions (it is curiously significant of McNamara's Pentagon that aides recently were able to count up the number of major decisions he had made in the previous month and produce the precise figure of 629). No item, right down to the number of beds to be installed in an Air Force hospital, is too trivial for his attention. Yet not even his critics argue that he bogs down in detail...
...Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet's Dalai Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers he signed; Abdul Karim Kassem (whose signature is a collector's item now), sent a copy of a speech he had just made; J. Edgar Hoover added some FBI pamphlets, and Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky scribbled some propaganda right on his face: "We struggle for peace all over the world...
...Item. About two weeks elapsed between de Gaulle's threat to blackball British entry into the Common Market and the execution of that threat. During this interval, Washington let it be known in Bonn that a delay in the ratification of the Franco-German Pact would be welcome to the United States. Such a delay, it was suggested, might give de Gaulle second thoughts about the blackball. Certain semi-official journalists were employed in this maneuver; it was possible to open any newspaper and read that the choice before Germany was between France and the United States. Although...
...Item. In that same interval, Premier Amintore Fanfani returned from a visit to the White House and told the Italian Parliament that the Franco-German Treaty was a "menace". He stated explicitly that the President of the United States felt the same way. It can therefore be inferred (and was inferred) that the speech was cleared if not written in Washington. Similar statements were soon heard from the Benelux powers...
...Item. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, made a public plea after the blackball that negotiations be continued without French presence. This idea, which would have violated the statutes of the Market, has been attributed by persistent rumors to American instigation. A similar suggestion was made to the German Foreign Minister in an eleventh-hour note from Dean Rusk...