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...conscious of the dignity of the occasion, announced that Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish would be m.c. of its Foreign Policy series. One NBC official said nervously: "I don't think there will be guys running around with walkie-talkies. ... We don't know how far the State Department will let us go about shoving a mike in a dignitary's face...
...Willkie himself was always a fighting leader. There are few figures in American history who rose to leadership of the people as swiftly as Wendell Willkie did. The most succinct reason given for Willkie's phenomenal career as a public figure, to my mind, was that of Archibald MacLeish: "He trusted the people . . . and they remember...
...first speech as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of public and cultural relations, Archibald MacLeish last week laid down a vital premise: "If the peoples of the world are informed about each other, their decisions with relation to each other will be just decisions . . . for the maintenance of peace...
...MacLeish: "You know the famous anecdote about Browning-one day one of Browning's friends called on him and asked him what he meant by a certain passage. Browning read it over and said, 'When I wrote that, God and I knew what it meant; but now God alone knows...
...audience tittered. But the laugh was not really on Bennett Clark. Next day, when the committee met in secret session, the nomination of Archibald MacLeish as Assistant Secretary of State was turned down, by a vote...