Word: memoranda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when they turned, finally, to this country, McNamara kicked aside the ponderous language of interdepartmental memoranda, smiled gratefully behind his rimless glasses, and unloaded the theme of his trip: the people of this country, he said, are failing to deal effectively with the immense problems -- in education, health, the cities -- that threaten to choke off progress...
...learning to be managers, and they feel that a college graduate can spend his two years more profitably as a second lieutenant than as a private. The possibility of schedules and regimentation doesn't seem to bother them. After two years of standing at attention, shuffling forms and memoranda, and perhaps fighting a war, many of them will return to grad school and to the quieter oblivion of the lecture hall...
...importance of flexibility. The President's requirements for his personal staff, for example, "cannot be fully understood, or met until they have been experienced." Kennedy moreover, was probably pleased to have a professor get into the act. At any rate, he told Neustadt to elaborate his argument in further memoranda. "When you finish," he said, "I want you to get the material back directly to me. I don't want you to send it to anybody else." Neustadt asked, "How do you want me to relate to Clark Clifford?" Kennedy replied quickly, "I don't want you to relate...
...speech was initially compiled from memoranda ordered weeks ago from Government agencies and advisers. White House aides digested the memos, and the speech's first draft was written by Richard Goodwin, a former Kennedy and Johnson speechwriter who was called back from his post at Wesleyan University. When Goodwin was through, the President reconstructed the speech with the help of No. 1 White House Aide Jack Valenti and Press Secretary Bill Moyers, finally wound up penciling in many of the words and phrases himself. He was still making changes with his felt-tipped pen as his chauffeured limousine sped...
...indicates that the New Frontier became easily exasperated at the "sentimentality" which questioned the principles and ends of American foreign policy. This may help to explain why the advice of Senator Fulbright and Ambassador Bowles was not taken, and may even throw light on why Mr. Schlesinger resorted to memoranda to record his own opposition...