Word: nsc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loving Texas hoboes, Anderson gave Bobby Cutler a credit for "encouragement." A poker player, Anderson recently wrote a short story about a poker addict who, abhorring the status quo ante, always ups it. By driving for decisions and following them up with action, Bobby Cutler has raised the NSC's ante of ability. Noting that he had overstayed his promised tour of duty by nine months, Cutler, 59, last week asked President Eisenhower to let him return to Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. as its board chairman. Granting the wish, the President replied, "You have breathed into...
Edgar Shelton, executive secretary of the NSTC, said, however, that "the recommendation of the Land Grant colleges will certainly be considered." He added that while preference might not be limited to college students, special provisions might be made in the reserve study report. This should go to the NSC and the President within three weeks, Shelton predicted...
...were confirmed when the French sent an S O S asking for a U.S. commander in Indo-China, along with U.S. air power and ground troops. Immediately the Indo-China problem flew to the top of the agenda of the National Security Council. Last week the President appointed an NSC subcommittee, consisting of Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith and Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes, to draw up a plan of action with the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
When press of other business calls Ike away in mid-meeting, Ike turns to Nixon and says, "Dick, you take over." One day last August, during the President's Denver vacation, Vice President Nixon was scheduled to be chairman of a full NSC meeting for the first time...
...secret report he would deliver to the next morning's National Security Council meeting. For three days he had closeted himself in a secluded Capitol office, writing observations of and conclusions from his ten-week inspection of the Far and Near East. At the meeting, the NSC's 177th, Nixon pulled the penciled results from a file folder, read and talked for an hour and a half. Whatever it was he said, it made a good impression: his audience, consisting of the President, four Cabinet members, the Chiefs of Staff and other top officials, clapped. Never before...