Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had looked over enough morgue material on him to know that his agile mind would be impatient with journalism's question & answer methods. Sure enough, at the first interview's end he remarked: "You know, if you were physicists, I'd fire you. I'm the murderer and you are lousy detectives...
...Service. Forrestal and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...friend, "nothing at all." "Why, that's preposterous!" said the Premier. "A man as able as you-to be idle. You should be in the government. Name a job and it's yours." "Well," said the friend, "I could use a cabinet post." "Oh, I'm afraid that would be difficult," said Ben-Gurion. "You see, all the posts are filled. Shertok is Foreign Minister. Zisling is Minister of Agriculture. Kaplan is Minister of Finance, and so it goes." "All right," said the friend, "so make me Minister of Air." "But there's no such post...
John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, back on his feet ("I had the gout for two weeks after Harry Truman was here"), and spry on his 80th birthday, issued a prickly statement to persistent newsmen for the occasion: "I'm in favor of every man reaching his own conclusions and his own confusions . . . There have been too many statements by too many people...
...mean anything," Wyeth says, "but I feel that the more you get into the textures of things, the less you have to clutter up the composition with a lot of props. When you lose simplicity you lose drama, and drama is what interests me. I guess I'm just an illustrator at heart...