Word: mccone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike his immediate predecessors, John McCone and Allen Dulles, Raborn sought no policymaking role, was far less concerned with the substance of intelligence, and his detached air drew criticism...
...since 1959, during a period in which the typical U.S. family's income rose 14% and that of nonwhite families elsewhere jumped 24%. Thus Watts has changed little-but its illness goes deeper than poverty. Such, at least, was the view of former CIA Director John A. McCone, who headed a commission that conducted an exhaustive investigation of the August riots. Said McCone: "This is one more evidence of an unwillingness by Negroes to accept responsibilities as law-abiding citizens. Until this changes, it's going to be very difficult for anyone in the community to change things...
...goodness, Mr. McCone!" tutted a White House guard next day. "What'll they do next-break into Edgar Hoover's house?" It was nearly that bad. While former Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone waltzed around with his wife Ti at Washington's National Symphony Ball, somebody cracked the Shoreham Hotel's defenses upstairs, broke into the McCones' suite and seriously sabotaged Ti's jewel collection. More than $18,000 in diamonds and pearls and other baubles were gone when the ball was over, and Edgar Hoover's boys immediately jumped...
...McCone, a bluntly honest man with a lifetime of practical experience in business and government, disagreed. "We wanted to work with real problems," he said, "not broad philosophical questions. We wanted to do something, not get bogged down in sociological speculation. We wanted immediate solutions, not theories...
...week after the savage Watts riots last August, California's Governor Pat Brown appointed a commission to find the reasons for the six-day uprising. The commission, headed by tough-minded John McCone, 63, former boss of the Central Intelligence Agency, spent 100 days at its task, interviewed hundreds of people ranging all the way from the Negro whose arrest for drunken driving touched off the holocaust to Brown himself. Last week the commission released its findings and no-nonsense recommendations* with a sober warning that unless immediate action is taken, the August riots "may seem by comparison...