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(3 of 10) on the battlements. He was in almost constant touch with the three men who from the first have been his chief advisers and sounding boards on the Viet Nam war-Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. It was Rusk, in particular...
No Time. As far as the pay-raise issue goes, McNamara was acting in his familiar role of lightning rod for the White House. He was trying to control costs-as do all department heads. Besides the specific effort to hold down the fiscal-1967 budget, the Johnson Administration is...
For seven humid, wakeful nights, the crash of thunder and flash of lightning had kept the cariocas awake, and the superstitious among them wondered if the gods of darkness had decided to unloose their wrath. Apparently they had. Abruptly the skies opened over Rio, and in four days torrential rains...
In his letters, Shaw lectured, hectored, reminded, advised, admonished, informed, reproached, insulted, encouraged, saluted and made love to an astonishing range of people. He wrote to women with the vanity of a lyrebird in a coopful of Rhode Island Reds. To one, he declared: "No use in looking for human...
Against this backdrop moves the spirit apostrophized in Perry's diary: "What is life? . . . It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." For Capote, the movements in the shadows that produced the lightning tragedy of the Clutter murder are the tremors...