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...plenty of evidence that the participants are aware that they are being measured against one another. The Vice-President, while discharging his duties, has taken care to make himself attractive to the public. During his Asian tour, he seemed to be following carefully the instructions of a confidential memorandum on "improving his image" that was reprinted in Newsweek several weeks ago. Humphrey's enthusiasm for the current South Vietnamese government and his natural ebullience seemed a little out of place in a country that has been at war for twenty years, especially in comparison to the sombre mood...
...bequest to the nation, might propose change in the organization of the Presidency, especially the institution of a team of grand viziers to be called the First Secretary and the Executive Assistant to the President. In order to combat such proposals, Jackson had asked Neustadt to prepare a memorandum on the problems of change-over for the new President...
Neustadt completed "Organizing the Transition" by September 15. Three days later Jackson took him out to Georgetown to meet Kennedy. Kennedy, sitting in his garden, flipped through the twenty pages of the memorandum in his usual manner. He liked it at once, and it is easy to see why. The presentation was crisp and methodical with a numbered list of specific problems and actions. It began by questioning campaign talk about "another Hundred Days" -- a warning which must have inspired Kennedy, embarrassed by rhetorical excess, with confidence in the sobriety of the memorandum's author. It constantly stressed the importance...
...basis of the various discussions by Ambassadors Harriman and Goldberg has been a fourteen-point memorandum entitled "The Heart of the Matter in Vietnam," which gathers together all of the President's former demands. Johnson has still refused even to hint at any compromise about the political future of the NLF, the substance of point three of Hanoi's four-point program. Thus the "new diplomacy" appears aimed at achieving traditional U.S. objectives through new and more up-dated techniques...
...raised the discount rate only after full consultation with the President, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, the President's economic advisers and the budget director. "I indicated what the problems were, as I saw it. They did not agree with me." In fact, Martin gave the President a written memorandum in October giving reasons why he felt a discount hike would be needed, and Fowler and Chief Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley retaliated with memos contesting his reasoning. Martin felt that the discount rate should have been raised in September, believes that if the Board had not acted earlier this month...