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...asking what the U.S. planned to do about it. Kissinger quietly but swiftly tapped those of the dinner guests who are members of the Administration's crisis-management team, the Washington Special Action Group: Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, CIA Director Richard Helms and Joseph Sisco of the State Department (the only missing member was Under Secretary of State U. Alexis Johnson). Their black limousines reached the White House by 10:30 p.m. They conferred past midnight in the first of at least a dozen meetings on Jordan...
Fast Footwork. The natty Vesco has already earned a reputation for fast financial footwork. The Detroit-born son of an autoworker, he left school at 17, learned management techniques on the job at Packard, Bohm Aluminum and Reynolds Metals. He went into business on his own at 24, arranging contracts and financing for deals to buy and sell small companies; sometimes he accepted stock as a fee. Partly through this method, Vesco in 1965 combined two tiny valve and control manufacturers to form International Controls, with 20 employees and sales...
...Richardson was different from Packard because many of us knew him." Bator said. Richardson '43 is former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. "But he was different from Kissinger because no one knew him really well, and we didn't regard him as a stand-in for the President...
Capron: "We all share the impression that he seized on the ground rules of not talking about domestic consequences. This was clear. He talked about acties of battle. Packard had talked about the problems of liberals'-as if he were going to end the war to do you a favor...
Lipset said, "Packard today dismissed us as 'professors' and 'liberals' -same thing." He shrugged...