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...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...
Then he went to Washington, a more spacious classroom. Journalists, lawyers, and Presidents learned to read with care and trepidation the lengthy, percise black-ink memoranda he signed "F. F." and sent off in reams daily. His illness left the fine hand uneven, and made the writing a torture, but the notes still came, and they still were read, shuddered at, and cherished...
Your editorial also perhaps underrates the forethought of Harvard administrators. They seldom receive funds unexpectedly, least of all in large amounts from foundations. Years of committee meetings, memoranda, plans and consultations lie behind this latest development in "international studies," and these new funds have long since been allocated to meet specific needs. The "bread line" you mention operated long ago. Meanwhile all of us supporters of "non-Western" studies can view the future with confidence and take heart from the fact that chairman Mao and his associates are basically on our side. J.K. Fairbank Professor of History and Director...
...other Harvard professors are serving on Countryman's committee. Writing memoranda on cases now before the Court are Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Ernest J. Brown, professor of Law, and Yale Kamisar and Charles A. Wright, visiting professor of Law. Mark DeWolfe '28, and Albert M. Sacks, professors of Law, still waiting to be assigned cases...